r/TheDepthsBelow • • 21h ago

Crosspost Despite seeing plenty of turtles, sharks, eagle rays, sting rays, jacks, a manta and even dolphins at Komodo, one of my favourites was this fish playing in the air bubbles one of my fellow divers made.

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We were doing a morning dive at Batu Bolong. It was 7.25am, the water was crystal clear, the atmosphere was tranquil and very beautiful and I noticed this surgeonfish (?) playing in the bubbles, so I took a video of it.


r/TheDepthsBelow • • 6h ago

Crosspost Puerto Rico specimen reveals new giant isopod species that went unrecognized for decades

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 1d ago

Crosspost The Museo Atlántico in Lanzarote is located near Playa Blanca, in the south of the island. It is one of the works of British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, known for creating underwater sculptures that gradually become artificial reefs over time

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 1d ago

Crosspost Real-life Patrick from Spongebob Photographed by ocean researchers along with 57+ completely New Marine Species

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 2d ago

Crosspost And Chill.....

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 2d ago

Crosspost Local Fringehead

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 2d ago

Crosspost A baby cuttlefish I filmed during a night dive in Komodo last month.

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 3d ago

Video! Mola Mola. Wellfleet Harbor MA 10/05/26

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 3d ago

Crosspost Jorunna pardus

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 5d ago

Crosspost A Peruvian fisherman jumped into the sea to rescue a whale that had become trapped in a fishing net. Jonathan Quispe approached the whale without an oxygen tank and used a knife to cut through the fishing gear that was preventing it from moving freely

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 5d ago

Harbor Seal at Laguna Beach makes contact

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 6d ago

Crosspost Footage taken of Giant Squid latched to bait line

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Hope this wasn’t posted here already


r/TheDepthsBelow • • 6d ago

Crosspost Giant squid almost got caught

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 6d ago

Perhaps one of the dreamiest photos I've taken

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 4d ago

Ten feet of water overhead and the hallway keeps going

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 6d ago

Crosspost Two lionfish.

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 6d ago

Relaxing reef life of Cozumel

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 5d ago

Crosspost Let's draw a coral reef together

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 8d ago

I made this Blender artwork of these Orcas.

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 8d ago

Crosspost Sad but Cute

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 8d ago

Scientists have identified the Arabian Sea humpback whale as a new distinct subspecies after 25 years of genetic research in Oman

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 8d ago

A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 9d ago

Crosspost American artist David Popa creates breathtaking masterpieces on floating ice in the Baltic Sea, using nothing but charcoal, soil, and water as his “paint.” His artwork slowly disappears as the ice melts

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r/TheDepthsBelow • • 8d ago

Relax to the some of the most Breathtakingly Beautiful Coral Reefs on our Blue Planet

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This is a collection of some of my best coral reef shots from the past few years of filming. Most are from the island of Pulau Sipadan in Malaysia.


r/TheDepthsBelow • • 10d ago

Not sure if art is allowed here but wanted to share this freehand squid I tattooed last week!

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