Okay, the bull run is back, and I know some of you don’t have any capital to start. That’s why I decided to giveaway a few solami
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Meet Marco,
Award-winning #Conservation Photographer x Maritime Activist – the heart of ScubaPunks
In >25years of diving & >8years of professional underwater #photography, Marco has documented the most elusive species of the deep whilst advocating the safeguard of their habitat
Having witnessed a decline in ocean conditions in his time at Maafushivaru, Marco took to conferences & conservation talks 🎙 to promote #sustainabletourism 🌏
A passion for conservation is what makes us #ScubaPunks 🤿
Follow to join us in protecting native habitats 🏝
Diamonds in the rough. 🦑
(a diamond squid egg mass tangled in plastic waste)
Let's work to remove the polluting impurities from the ocean. 💎
#WorldOceanDay#ScubaPunks#climatechange
#BlackwaterPhotography: Perilous Passion
Diving into the abyss in the shroud of night
Navigating the depths in 0-gravity whilst gauging strobe & camera settings📷
This requires artistry that Marco has refined in >8K dives to document such ethereal creatures🐙
📍Maldives
Paper Nautiluses often use jellyfish, debris and even other Paper Nautiluses to hitch a ride🏄
Here's one riding a leaf 🍃 in Anilao 🇵🇭
Blackwater #diving 🤿 allows you to witness great migrations of the animal world as juveniles and larvae rise from the deep to hunt for food
#nofilter
Blackwater-photography by Marco Steiner🌊
No Photoshop
No filters
No CGI
Just a trained eye and a camera rig📷 set to
precise settings to the achieve the perfect
shot🤌🏼
This shot was achieved by covering segments
of the strobe, exposing only certain fish in focus🐟
Nudibranchs are some of the ocean's most alien-like creatures👽
With a plethora of shapes and patterns, they look like something from fiction🎭
Thecacera Pacifica has coined the nickname "#Pikachu" for its yellow and black patterns
Here's a wild Pikachu feeding on a bryozoa🍽
50% of whalesharks in tourism zones were found to have fresh wounds
The most common cause?
Boats sailing at high speeds through their feeding areas
Follow us in supporting #SustainableTourism so the enjoyment of nature's beauty never comes at the cost of an animal's wellbeing🐋
#Coral reefs make up <1% of the ocean yet are home to 4000 species of fish🐡 and 25% of all marine life🦐
But coral is helping us too!🧍🏽♂️
By researching coral's complex chemical defence systems, medicines are being developed to treat #Cancer, #Alzheimers disease and many more🩹
We are in an ecological crisis 🚨
90% of corals at the Great Barrier reef has bleached 🏳️
60% of hard corals in the Maldives bleached & died in 1 year ☠️
#ScubaPunks are on a quest to help conserve and restore our planet's #Coralreefs 🪸
Follow us to join the cause 🫱🏻🫲🏽