Underwater Exploration and Studies

Diving scenes from underwater explorations featuring marine life, scuba divers, and research activities related to marine conservation and archaeology.

Diver measuring Hard Coral, Acropora sp., Angsana Maldives Ihuru, North Male Atoll, The Maldives.

Diver with a Rebreather. (A closed or half-closed circulatory system) . Maldives.

Mask nose doctor bathing in bubbles of diver, Naso vlamingii, Kandooma Caves, South Male Atoll, Maldives, Asia

Man underwater diving

Divers working on a project about turtle exclusion devices (TEDs) film while holding on to a trawl net as it is dragged across the sea floor.

Underwater treasure, Russian coins, Siberian stamping of times of Empress Ekaterina II., Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian Federation, Eurasia

Cameramen use the latest in high-tech, mixed-gas rebreather technology to film marine wildlife, Fiji, Pacific Ocean

Diver with underwatercamera, Galapagos

Scuba diver and a Giant Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria), Indonesia, Asia

Diver measuring Hard Coral, Acropora sp., Angsana Maldives Ihuru, North Male Atoll, The Maldives.

Researcher takes a gas sample. CNR volcanology research. Aeolian Islands. Sicily. Italy. (Photo by: Giorgio Mesturini/REDA&CO/UIG)

Ice Diver Shawn Harper shoots video of creatures living underneath the ice. Alaska, Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow. Photographed by Katrin Iken. Dated 2005

Scuba Divers Discover a Pair of Spiny Lobster

A scuba diver looking at sponges (Porifera) and coral (Cnidaria), Belize

Diver at the propeller, dive site wreck of the Thistlegorm, Red Sea, Egypt, Africa

Diver with einm floodlight behind a Gorgonia.

A technical cave diver using a diver propulsion vehicle (DPV) to dive into the Blue Springs state park cave system near Marianna, Florida.

Plunger with bottle swimming in the depths

diver exploring the ocean close to Chumphon in the gulf of Thailand

A scuba diver with a lamp behind a Red rope sponge (Amphimedon compressa), Belize

Researcher takes skin samples from bull sharks, Beqa Lagoon, Viti Levu, Fiji, Oceania

Scuba diver in healthy reef system, Dominica, West Indies, Caribbean. July 2008. Model released

Diver overlooking stove pipe sponge (Aplysina archeri) and touch-me-not sponge (Neofibularia nolitangere). Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

snorkel

Identification and marking of a young mother of pearl Monaco

Diver takes a photo of a Feather star, Crinoid.

Diver searching and blowing a magnetic hit Bahamas

Diver and Artifacts of USS Apogon Submarine, Marshall Islands, Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean

PHOTO DATE: 10-28-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Expedition 42/43 crew training at the NBL with Scott Kelly and Samantha Cristoforetti during ISS EVA Maintenance 2 PRF.

Scuba diver observing a Variable Bushy Feather Star (Comanthina schlegeli), Australia, Oceania

Diver at the Jura, wreck diving, Germany, Lake Constance, Baden Würtemberg, Europe

Diver taking pictures of Blue Starfish (Linckia laevigata), Bohol Sea, Philippines, Asia

Roman wine Amphora at Le Dramont, France, Mediterranean Sea Archaeological research by diver DRASM (Direction Regionale de l'archeologie Marseille)

Italy, Aeolian Islands, Lipari, diver exploring seabed with Stylocidaris affinities

Shark cage diving, Guadalupe Island, Pacific Ocean

Diver & Silver Bar from Spanish 1500s Shipwreck, 10' u/w, Grand Bahama

Underwater photography of a silhouetted diver from behind the door frame structure of a sunken ship

Diver exploring the ocean floor, surrounded by fusilier fish

Artemis II Orion Underway Recovery Test 10 (URT-10) - Day 3. The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean during NASAs Underway Recovery Test 10 (URT-10). The CMTA is a full-scale mockup of the Orion spacecraft and is used by NASA and its Department of Defense partners to practice recovery procedures for crewed Artemis missions. URT-10 is the first test specifically in support of the Artemis II mission and allowed the team to practice what it will be like to recover astronauts and get them back to the recovery ship safely.

Coral farming. Diver cleans the frame on which young specimens of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) grow until they can be released onto the reef. The aim is to breed corals that can withstand the higher water temperatures. Dive site Nursery, Tavernier, Florida Keys, Florida, USA, North America

scuba diver exploring the propeller of the salvatierra wreck, sea of cortez, baja california, mexico, east pacific ocean date: 24.06.08 ref: zb777_115632_0049 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Diver checking time and depth with dive computer, Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

diver on the wreck of the city of westminster

Diver-Researcher at the Nice Institute of Chemistry collecting sponges in an attempt to extract bioactive molecules, potentially valuable in the therapeutic field (anti-infectives, anticancer), off Mdic, Morocco. Scientific mission.

Diver looking at Magnificent Red Firesponge (Latrunculia corticata oder magnifica) in storage room, red, wreck Cedar Pride, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, JK, Red Sea, Western Asia

scuba diver with baitball of pacific flatiron herring, harengula thrissina, sea of cortez, baja california, mexico, east pacific ocean date: 24.06.08 ref: zb777_115632_0020 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Diver looking at and illuminating ancient amphora on seabed, Mediterranean Sea, Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey, Asia

Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine

Scuba diver with neck part of an amphora, Kas, Antalya, Turkey

Diver looks at a yellow tube sponge.

Diver looks at a Coral.

Underwater photographer and Common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), Odessa, Black Sea, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe

Diver Looking for Fish Eggs Under Sea Anemone

Diver, ice-diving, and Common Sunstar (Crossaster papposus), White Sea, Karelia, north Russia, Arctic

underwater photographer at the great Barrier Reef

Scuba diver examining coral formation

Hawaii, Big Island, Almaco Jack (Seriola Rivoliana) In A Pen At A Fish Farm.

Date: 12-13-13Location: NBL, Pool TopsideSubject: Soyuz 45 crew members, Tim Kopra and ESA astronaut Tim Peake during ISS EVA Maintenance 1 - training at the NBL

Shark tagger working on a project with US Davis, CDRS and GNPS to study Hammerhead Shark migration between Cocos, Malpelo and Galapagos Islands and the coast of Ecuador.

Diver looking at leather coral (Sarcophyton elegans), Pacific Ocean, Flores, Indonesia, Asia

Roman wine Amphora at Le Dramont, France, Mediterranean Sea Archaeological research by diver DRASM (Direction Regionale de l'archeologie Marseille)

Scuba diver inspecting a screw propeller, Red Sea, Egypt, Africa

An underwater photographer doing a decompression stop, or deco stop, a halt in accent from a dive to safely purge absorbed inert gases and avoid decompression sickness. South Ari Atoll, The Maldives.

Tubeworm and diver, Spirographis spallanzani, Spain, Mediterranean Sea, Costa Brava, Europe

diver on the wreck of the city of westminster

Research divers from the MOC Marine Institute map out coral damage at Molokini Marine Preserve off the island of Maui, Hawaii. In the future, data fro...

Diver, ice-diving, White Sea, Karelia, north Russia, Arctic

Helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla) and scuba diver

Dive with the submarine DeepSee to Cocos Island

diver exploring St Johns cave system in the Red Sea

DeepSee deep diving submersible Cocos Island Costa Rica

Silky shark drowned a line drifting Cocos Island

Underwater scene with scuba diver

Scuba diver

Snorkellers swimming in sperm whale excrement, Physeter macrocephalus, Caribbean, Dominica, Central America

Divers at the deco bar after a deep wreck dive, Marshall Islands, Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean, Oceania

Scuba diver examining coral

Cave diver and turtle skeleton, cave diving, Malaysia, Pacific ocean, Borneo, Sipadan, Asia

Divers with torches. Cave diving Maya Cenotes Yucatan Mexico. The Yucatan Penisula is a huge limestone platform where water runs through an underground cave system. Part of the land has collapsed, creating sinkholes called Cenotes, which gives access to the underground system.

DeepSee deep diving submersible Cocos Island Costa Rica

Diver speleologist in Cenote Yuacatan Mexico

Marine Biologist observing Juvenile Hammerhead Shark

Nine year old catches 15 pound Giant Lobster USA

Indonesian reef scene, woman diver behind crinoids (Comanthus bennetti)

female diver performing a safety stop in 5meters depth in Australia

Jacque Cousteau's Precontinent 2, Sudan, Africa, Red Sea, Shaab Rhumi, Africa

PHOTO DATE: 10-26-10LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Expedition 27 crew member Ron Garan and Expedition 28 crew member Mike Fossum during a joint INC-27/INC-28 ISS EVA Cleanup training session at the NBLWORK ORDER: 03126-BS__NBLEXP27_10-26-10

Giant Pelagic Jellyfish

Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine

Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Underground diver above the first well in the Buèges spring, Hérault, France

010626-N-5329L-017. Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

DATE: 5-21-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Mike Hopkins during INCR-37 ISS EVA Maintenance 95027 run with astronaut Kathleen Rubins.

White smoky vent fluid rises out of small sulfur chimneys at Northwest Eifuku volcano. From Mariana Arc region, Western Pacific Ocean. Dated 2004

DeepSee diving submersible, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean Property released

JSC2010-E-181483 (27 Oct. 2010) --- Attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit, NASA astronaut Rex Walheim, STS-135 mission specialist, participates in a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Divers are in the water to assist Walheim in his rehearsal, which is intended to help prepare him for work on the exterior of the International Space Station. STS-135 is planned to be the final mission of the space shuttle program.

Nine year old free diver captures Lobster Plume Cove USA

scuba diver with amphora, ist island, croatia, adriatic sea, mediterranean date: 22.07.08 ref: zb777_117110_0022 compulsory credit: oceans-image/photoshot

Spiral wire coral and scuba diver Cirripathes spiralis

Diver examining underwater debris

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