Shooter: Alex Mustard

Alex Mustard, Ph.D., is among the first prominent underwater photographers to come of age during the digital era. He’s a marine scientist.

Two yellow fish snuggle close together

Underwater Video with DSLRs

Digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs) offer excellent video quality for the price and are a useful one-camera travel solution. But divers interested in shooting video should be aware of some compromises and challenges to motion-image capture that exist with DSLRs.

Diver approaches pink coral with a giant camera

Hope for Sharks at CITES 2013

The stakes were high at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meeting this spring. On the table were the fates of manta rays and five species of shark.

Giant manta ray swims with a fish on its head and a diver is in the background

It’s All About the Toys

Technological advances have greatly changed and improved the dive experience. Learn more about these advances.

Diver floats through a shipwreck. The diver is wearing a blue wetsuit.