![]() ![]() Along the way, we meet creatures both great and small, from humpback whales to a skeleton shrimp. Members of our Your Shot photography community take us on a trip underwater through their camera lenses, not only into the world’s oceans but also to cenotes in Mexico, a river in Switzerland, and an Austrian lake. The reward is pictures like those in this gallery, which appear like postcards from another world. They must quickly get comfortable with uncomfortable situations requiring working with little light and limited air. Now, free to experience that sense of liberation described by Cousteau, humans feel more at home submerged-we are, after all, more than 50 percent water.īut for underwater photographers, that sense of freedom comes with challenges. Advances in technology have helped us better understand what lies below, and, in the 1940s, the advent of Cousteau and Émile Gagnan’s Aqua-Lung forever changed our relationship with the sea. ![]() Since the dawn of the industrial era, it has also increasingly been a site of exploration. Source of both much of our food and some of our fears, the sea has forever sustained and threatened humans. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders,” said the pioneering undersea explorer, Jacques Cousteau. ![]()
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