Ten award-winning photos have captured the eerie beauty of some of the most intriguing seabed wrecks on the planet.
From submerged tanks and planes to fated war machines sunk during the two world wars—the 2024 Underwater Photographer of the Year awards highlight the best of intrepid dive photography.
A Sunken Passenger Plane
Like something from a sci-fi movie, Alvaro Herrero’s photo taken inside a submerged plane is otherworldly. To show the enormity of the scuttled Lockheed TriStar L-1011 that rests on the floor of the Red Sea in Jordan, he used a special cave photography technique to illuminate the silhouette of the diver swimming down the aisle.
