Underwater Photography News

In 2009, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California sent an ROV (remote operated vehicle), on multiple dives of the waters of California and Hawaii which reached the depths of 6,700 feet.  They have recently released the video taken from those dives, and they have captured something incredible.  They have filmed a Ghost Shark which is also known as Chimaeras.  Ghost sharks are dead-eyed, winged-finned fish and they don’t have ragged rows of teeth; that resides at great depths and no sunlight can penetrate.  It is believed that they have been

Scubashooters.net is a community composed of amateur and professional photographers binded by their passion for underwater photography.  Having this passion, they came up with creating monthly contests in order to showcase the beauty of the underwater world.  They have been organizing more than 20 monthly contests and partnering up with sponsors all over the world.  

Deepblu has just announced the launch of their online social network - an expansion of their current iOS and Android social app. The platform is a fun community where divers to sync underwater photos and videos with their digital dive log profile and then share with friends. It makes it fun to see the photos and where in the dive they were captured. Deep water, shallow water, temperature and more.

Deepblu is also starting a Christmas Competition, where users can enter to win COSMIQ dive computers and Deepblu gift certificates.

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Make your photos and videos more interesting by adding telemetry gauges to your story.   With the Quik for Desktop app, you can add more details to moment you have captured such as GPS path, speed, altitude, g-force, elevation gain and a lot more.  Aside from that, overlays could also be customizable to your liking; position, size and what type of data would you want to show.  

Below is the press release from GoPro.

Light and Motion has always been one of the most popular companies when it comes to underwater photography. They produce innovative products and powerful and lightweight video and focus lights.  This DEMA 2016, they are intorducing a few items that they are adding to their product line - Sola Video Pro with 9,600 lumens, Sola Video 3,800, Dome Port Optic, New Dive 2500 S/F and Stella Pro camera lights.

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