Soft Coral Garden

This beautiful soft coral is growing on the hull of the SS Yongala, wrecked more than 100 years ago. It's a beautify, diverse ecosystem brimming with life.

Cathedral Lighting

Diving through the Arch in the Poor Knights Islands is like entering into another world, with dancing beams of light shining from gaps in the rock above and an abundance of life.

The boundless energy of youth

While his adult companions relaxed on the rocks or rolled around on the surface, this juvenile NZ Fur Seal was having the time of his life whizzing around our heads. Frozen in motion here, he was going at quite a pace for this shot - it was a bit of luck to capture him in such a fantastic pose.

Welcome to my house

This moray eel was very comfortable in his crevice in the hull of the SS Yongala wreck.

Curiosity

This NZ fur seal off Montague Island in Australia was incredibly inquisitive, swimming around us, peering at our lights and reflective domes, even picking up and playing with an inadvertently discarded weight pocket from a previous diver. In this shot he's checking out the anchor line of our dive boat.

Abundance

The waters of the Poor Knights Island reserve are teeming with life - which is what happens when we protect it rather than systematically pulling every living creature out of the ocean.

Portal to the deep

This shot looks up through one of the deck port-holes of the SS Yongala towards the surface. The Yongala is considered a sacred site because of the crew and passengers on board who went down with the ship, so penetration of the wreck is not permitted.