Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...

Alex Mustard / Orange painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) fishing. Here the frogfish is illuminated by a snooted strobe and the background sand lit with a red LED torch. Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lembeh S...

Phil Savoie / Green-crowned brillian hummingbird (Heliodoxa jacula) visiting Torch ginger flower (Etlingera elatior), Poas Volcano National Park Costa Rica

Pedro Narra / Man and woman undertaking monitoring work measuring Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests as the the female digs it, Bissagos Islands, Guinea Bissau. Endangered species. 3rd Place in the SOS Especes M...

Juan Carlos Munoz / People exploring underground lakes via rigid inflatable boat, Cross Cave (Krizna jama) under Cross Mountain, Green Karst, Slovenia, October 2014.

Alex Mustard,Alex Mustard / A diver and a hydrothermal chimney. Note that he is obscured by the different temperature waters (from the chimney and the surrounding water) which are unable to mix. The sea water was 4 degrees Celsi...

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and yellow sponges (Aplysina cavernicola) on Brioni Steamship wreck, Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean. Model released.

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and Manta ray (Manta birostris), San Benedicto, Revillagigedo (Socorro) Islands, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean. Model released.

Inaki Relanzon / Potholer exploring the Graller del Boixaguer cave, Montsec mountains, Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain, May 2012. Model released.

Sue Daly / Diver on the wreck of HMNZS Canterbury, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. February 2013. Model released.

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver under ice next to large ice formation, Arctic circle Dive Center, White Sea, Karelia, northern Russia, March 2010. No release available.

Todd Mintz / Iceberg dive, diver next to ice floe, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, June