Underwater Photographer of the Year celebrates photography beneath the surface area of the ocean, lakes and rivers.
More than 5,500 underwater pictures were being entered in 13 categories by underwater photographers from 70 countries around the globe.
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Greg Lecoeur
Greg Lecoeur gained Underwater Photographer of the Year 2020 with Frozen Cell Residence, showing seals about an iceberg in Antarctica.
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Anita Kainrath
Anita Kainrath, from Austria, won Up & Coming Underwater Photographer of the Yr with Shark Nursery, demonstrating little one lemon sharks in a mangrove in the Bahamas.
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Pasquale Vassallo
Italian Pasquale Vassallo received Maritime Conservation Photographer of the 12 months with Final Dawn, Last Gasp, showing a tuna as it is hauled up towards a boat off the coastline of Naples.
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Nick Much more
Nick A lot more, from Devon, won British Underwater Photographer of the Year with Rabbitfish Zoom Blur, taken in Indonesia.
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Nur Tucker
Nur Tucker, from Wimbledon, gained the Most Promising British Underwater Photographer, with Commotion in the Ocean, a panning picture of a seahorse.
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Zena Holloway
Zena Holloway received the Black and White class with an picture of Brazilian free of charge-diver and conservationist Flavia Eberhard in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
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Renee Capozzola
Renee Capozzola received the Wreck classification with a split shot of the Georgios shipwreck, in Saudi Arabia. The ship ran aground in 1978 and now serves as an synthetic reef.
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Keigo Kawamura
Keigo Kawamura won the Macro class with an image of unicorn shrimp in Japan.
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Trevor Rees
Trevor Rees won the British Waters Extensive Angle category with a shot of a fireworks anemone at the head of Loch Dutch, in Shetland.
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Shane Keena
Shane Keena gained the Conservation category with a shot of a hermit crab on Peleliu Island utilizing a discarded can as a non permanent household.
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