Since its inception in 2005, the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's underwater photography contest has drawn amateur photographers from waters around the world. The winners featured in this gallery are also on display in a traveling exhibit throughout south Florida.
The greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) near Malapascua island, Philippines.
– Marcello DiFrancesco, Italy
A juvenile lionfish during a night dive in Roatan, Honduras.
– Steven Kovacs, Florida
Raccoon butterfly fish and angelfish on a reef in the Red Sea, near Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.
– Pietro Cremone, Italy
A male Dusky Jawfish with his clutch of eggs at the Blue Heron Bridge in Riviera Beach, Florida.
– Judy Townsend, Florida
Oceanic white tip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) near Cat Island, Bahamas.
– Austin Gallagher, Florida
Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) in Bimini, Bahamas.
– Laura Rock, Florida
Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) during the annual spawning event in Jupiter, Fla.
– Laura Rock, Florida
An anemone shrimp in Puerto Galera, Philippines.
– Beth Watson, Missouri
Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) in a kelp forest at Cortes bank, near San Diego, California.
– Kyle McBurnie, California
An emperor shrimp (Periclimenes imperator) on two nudibranches (Risbecia tryoni) at Dinah's Beach, Papua New Guinea.
– Douglas Good, Pennsylvania
Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
– Joseph Tepper, New York
A lionfish on the Thistlegorm wreck in the Red Sea, Egypt.
– Alex Tattersall, United Kingdom
A porcelain crab (Neopetrolisthes maculatus) on an anemone at Pescador Island, Cebu, Philippines.
– Frederica Bambi, Italy
