860-292104 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), Whale pirouette. Humpback whales are as imposing as they are agile in the water! La Reunion island
860-287890 - California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) dive fast to feed on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California, Pacific Ocean, Mexico
860-287459 - Tara Oceans Expeditions - May 2011. diving Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus); Isabela Island; Galapagos, Ecuador; The Marine Iguana appears slow and clumsy on land, but this particular species of lizard is the only sea-going lizard in the world. However, it has to return the the land to breed.
1022-81 - tallfin batfish (platax teira), juvenile, wild, day, marine protected area, diving off Coral Bay, Ningaloo reef, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: with 3 dark bars, very long dorsal, anal and pelvic fins, feed on plankton from water column.
1067-36 - Freediver and WWII plane wreck. Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This is the tail of a Japanese bomber shot down over Yap during the summer of 1944 by U.S. planes.
1067-20 - Snorkelers on the surface of a blue hole. Virgin Blue Hole dive site, Palau, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: Blue holes such as this are submerged limestone sink holes.
979-7763 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer take the Polar Plunge off ice floe in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-6946 - Crew and guest on Zodiacs in the Atlantic Ocean from onboard the National Geographic Endeavour crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal to Salvador, Brazil
979-6949 - Crew and guest on Zodiacs in the Atlantic Ocean from onboard the National Geographic Endeavour crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal to Salvador, Brazil
979-6950 - Crew and guest on Zodiacs in the Atlantic Ocean from onboard the National Geographic Endeavour crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal to Salvador, Brazil
979-6945 - Crew and guest on Zodiacs in the Atlantic Ocean from onboard the National Geographic Endeavour crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal to Salvador, Brazil
979-7951 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer take the Polar Plunge off ice floe in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-6957 - Lindblad Expeditions guests doing the "polar Plunge" in Port Foster near Whalers Bay inside the caldera on Deception Island, South Shetland Island Group, Antarctica. NO MODEL RELEASES FOR THIS IMAGE.
979-7762 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer take the Polar Plunge off ice floe in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-6948 - Crew and guest on Zodiacs in the Atlantic Ocean from onboard the National Geographic Endeavour crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal to Salvador, Brazil
979-7761 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer take the Polar Plunge off ice floe in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7352 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer lay in the relatively warm waters of the caldera at Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
979-6959 - Lindblad Expeditions guests doing the "polar Plunge" in Port Foster near Whalers Bay inside the caldera on Deception Island, South Shetland Island Group, Antarctica. NO MODEL RELEASES FOR THIS IMAGE.
979-7766 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer take the Polar Plunge off ice floe in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7513 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing near the National Geographic Explorer near Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-6947 - Crew and guest on Zodiacs in the Atlantic Ocean from onboard the National Geographic Endeavour crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal to Salvador, Brazil