Marco Steiner

Curio blackwater photography by Marco Steiner, woven into data-rich NFTs. Follow our quest to CONSERVE and RESTORE habitats

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

Welcome to ScubaPunks🤿
Our Mission:
-Launch collections of curio blackwater-photography by Marco Steiner, woven into data-rich #NFTs
-Begin a community-driven quest to PRESERVE and RESTORE the habitats & native dive sites encompassing the locations the photographs were taken

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

We are proud to announce that #ScubaPunks' first 4 Items have been released 🐠 into the #opensea marketplace 🖼

Become an owner of our works of art at:
https://t.co/PmUePcrWBD

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

Nudibranch's - where see slugs meet Pokemon👾

Some use solar power🌞 - storing photosynthetic algae in their bodies. No need to eat😎

Some wield acid in self-defence🤺

Even nudibranch trails speak a thousand words, containing chemical messages indicating danger or food ahead🧑‍🍳

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

#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🩹

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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🐋

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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🍽

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

#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🐟

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

#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

[World Ocean Day @WorldOceansDay]

Happy #WorldOceanDay, ocean friends. Today is a day of celebration, action and conservation. Please sign on to urge governments around the world to protect 30% of lands and ocean by 2030: https://t.co/ikNapSLudP

Follow along today as we highlight events the world!

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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

[United Nations @UN]

By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean.

We all have a role to play to #SaveOurOcean & our future.

See how on Wednesday's #WorldOceansDay: https://t.co/QtPJbVXpcf

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

The new prey & predator. Behave.

#WorldOceansDay

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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 🏝

[Marco Steiner @ScubaPunks]

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