He’s been a National Geographic underwater photographer since 1971, and like Laurent, he’d grown up idolizing Jacques Cousteau. DOUBILET: But it was like looking through a Tudor window and ...

A rare image of a grouper mating frenzy won French photographer Laurent Ballesta the contest’s top honor. 1 of 15 A young elephant performs underwater for spectators in Thailand.

Meet Jahawi Bertolli. He's a filmmaker, photographer, and music producer from Kenya who specializes in wildlife and the underwater world, striving to portray the beauty, power, and vulnerability ...

The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a completely different fish. They sustain tissue damage when they're brought from the ocean's depths to the surface.

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry traveled the globe to document killer whale pods—where he found ... and finally he becomes one of National Geographic’s go-to underwater ...

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When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

A herd of saddled sea bream fish swim closely by a photographer's underwater camera. A recent study suggested two sea bream species could recognize divers by color. Photograph By Robby Fontanesi ...

From groundbreaking research to the beauty of marine sanctuaries teeming with life, these images shine a spotlight on the ...

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. ... "I think I was underwater for three or four minutes," he says. ... a photographer finds calm.

This article is brought to you by the Australian National Maritime Museum. Now in its 60th year and widely considered ‘the Oscars of wildlife photography’, the world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of ...