The Most Frightening Ocean Photos that Provoke Thalassophobia

#1 This seaweed through clear water

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#2 Deep water swell

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#3 Alex dawson’s award-winning viciously haunting scuba diving photos

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#4 The first underwater photograph. At a depth of 195 feet in the mediterranean

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#5 Could you live like this?

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#6 Waves of nazare, portugal

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#7 A huge wave

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#8 When you’re swimming and feel seaweed touching your feet….. But actually

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#9 Posted on r/damnthatsinteresting but thought it fit better here

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#10 Standing at the edge

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#11 No land in sight?

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#12 Freediving near iglesias, italy

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#13 This shot was taken off moalboal on the island of cebu, philippines. This guy was free diving with just a mask. I was lucky enough to catch him coming up through a bait ball. Shot with a 5dsr 8-15 mm lens set at 10 mm 200th sec @ f8 2 ysd1’s

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#14 Worlds smallest inhabited island

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#15 Thalassophobia and submechanophobia combined into one photo

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#16 The arch in the blue hole, egypt which has infamously claimed up to 200 lives

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#17 Point nemo, you are closer to astronauts aboard the iss than humanity

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#18 The idea of this tunnel caving in while you’re 60 ft below the surface of the ocean

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#19 Dean’s blue hole in long island, the bahamas (via willtrubridge)

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#20 The drop off

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#21 Calm but eerie

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#22 Dragon hole in the south china sea is the world’s deepest blue hole, plunging down 300 m (987 ft)

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#23 The wreck of the titanic. This photo gives me anxiety…

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#24 105 feet down staring over the edge of a drop off

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#25 For the cost of about $60,000 you can live in a wwi seaport off the coast of england built between 1915-1919

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#26 Grand turks 700 ft drop

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#27 Orcas in the waves

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#28 British underwater photographer of the year winner 2022

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#29 Words fail me

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#30 Underwater path. Magical zakynthos caves, greece

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#31 Because all my friends say this photo of me freediving gives them the willies

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#32 Guadalupe island, the most terrifying place on this planet

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#33 The bottom of an iceberg

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#34 Swimming next to a ship in the open ocean, miles from land

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#35 A diver riding a giant underwater worm (pyrosoma atlanticum)

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#36 Going through old pics, thought i would drop this here

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#37 This window in a local library that goes into a creek

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#38 Naval mine found in diving trip

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#39 Lighthouse in portugal. This is the time of the year that the waves are massive. Not on my bucket list!!!

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#40 Surfing in thick fog

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#41 That drop off though

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#42 Serbian combat diver

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#43 An abandoned observation tower at coral island, nassau, bahamas

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#44 Saw this picture on facebook from the page wonders of the planet earth. A shipwreck being reclaimed by the sea

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#45 When you fear of flying and your fear of water meet eachother

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#46 This photo is anxiety inducing for some reason

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#47 I figured you would appreciate this

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#48 I used night mode on my phone and…

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#49 I could never

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#50 Posted this on r/submechanophobia but thought it would fit here too. And odd broken pier support that looks just like a hand

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#51 Made my spine crawl just a little

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#52 Oceans drop of for you to remember how small you are

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#53 I made some art to recreate the feeling from a beach dream i had where the waves were so big they blocked out the sun

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#54 Lake ponchartrain causeway bridge in louisiana

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#55 This creepy dock i was on tonight

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#56 Floating in a ship

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#57 Exploring the mysteries of the ocean

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#58 Sweden’s new submarine

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#59 This teaser for the new netflix show “1899” gives me chills

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#60 Ah yes, underwater active volcanos and mutant sharks, that’s what the ocean needs, it wasn’t scary enough as is

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#61 Into the darkness

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#62 Less than a quarter!

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#63 Credit: anatoly beloshchin. River at the bottom of the sea

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#64 Uhmm the clouds look like the ocean

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#65 An underwater oil rig

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#66 Imagine being stuck here

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#67 What’s down there

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#68 Aquarius reef base: underwater science habitat

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#69 A swimming ladder to thalassophobia

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#70 This scene from dunkirk gives me chills

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#71 Saltwater pool by the sea

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#72 I just imagine swimming around this and my skin crawls!

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#73 Sunshine skyway over tampa bay

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#74 Friend sent this from his fishing trip. Thought it belonged here

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#75 Satellite image of dover strait, taken in 2001

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#76 A render i made

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#77 “picture of the sea” by @sinsin08051

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#78 Oh what the hell

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#79 That sinking feeling

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#80 Airplane far down

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#81 Just took this one and thought you’d like it

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#82 Netting the deep

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#83 The north sea is my favourite body of water

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#84 A “sinking ship” or “low fog”? Either way, no thanks!

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#85 An ais interpretation of thalassophobia: “i surrendered to the tsunami wave that was about to crash upon me”

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#86 I thought it was a zipper at first… hard pass

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#87 Two swimmers in the deep sea

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#88 Kayaking in a lake with no fish, 60m/196feet deep in some areas

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#89 Lone diver beneath lake erie, inspecting sensors

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#90 This is one of the few photos that actually makes me terrified of the ocean even if this is extremely unlikely to happen

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#91 Kayaking with the giants!

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#92 “uhhhh, there’s more than just kelp and angelfish down here, over”

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#93 Taken off the coast of southern california 2 weeks ago

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#94 “the big one”

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#95 When you fear of flying and your fear of water meet each other

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#96 The eye of s(e)auron.

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#97 A howling abyss

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#98 Deep water swell

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#99 An entire street submerged in the deep

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#100 Could that be the megalodon’s den?

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#101 Brine pools are just the scariest shit

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#102 Apparently this is the sunken goddess sculpture- that’s all i know but look at how big it is!

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#103 This grounded ship looking like a giant meg

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#104 That last point made me double take

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#105 Fresh water always creeped me out more than the ocean. The general low visibility and feeling “enclosed” with whatever was in the water was always gnawing at the back of my mind.

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#106 This would scare me tf out

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#107 Flip (floating instrument platform), a ship flipping vertically to study the behavior of sound waves underwater

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#108 Found this gem on tumblr

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#109 Digital painting by my son illustrating thalassophobia

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#110 A warning sign for scuba divers deep underwater

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#111 When you can’t find it but it’s right under the boat

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#112 Within the waves

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#113 Thought you guys might like/hate this picture i captured on my drone

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#114 That is a boat

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#115 Suddenly, out of the shadows

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#116 Literally a river, under the sea. Feeling like doubling down on your thalassophobia?

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#117 Buoy blues, by me

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#118 Two tiny boats floating over an underwater cliff

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#119 In the dark of the ocean

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#120 You’re off the edge of the map mate… here there be monsters

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#121 This photo from time’s top 100 photos of 2021

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#122 A photo of a diver exploring the underside of an iceberg in antarctica by jill heinerth. Apparently, they went inside a cave in this giant iceberg. I couldn’t imagine “cave” diving inside an iceberg that floats in nearly black water

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#123 My brother sent me this picture of him at work

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#124 Cleveland ledge lighthouse, falmouth, massachusetts

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#125 My wife easing my mil closer to the water after she saw the ocean for the first time in 10 years and it made her feel “dizzy”

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#126 A popular tourist destination: long island, bahamas sinkhole.

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#127 Who knows why people do these things

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#128 Where i live there is a lake created by a meteor which is 115 meters deep. This is a photo our free press released of it. Not a fan

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#129 Here’s a picture of me sitting on a tree branch 120ft deep in a sinkhole

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#130 It’s so weird knowing the hoover dam is this deep. The white line is where the water usually is

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#131 I still don’t understand why i find this image terrifying

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#132 What do you think about eating at this restaurant in norway?

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#133 Seeing the glacier underwater scares the s**t out of me

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#134 Asked an a. I. To interpret thalassophobia

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#135 An average 1,700 containers are lost overboard every year. Most of them don’t sink, but instead hide just below the surface, held up by trapped pockets of air. Without radar, there’s nothing you can do if you’re going to hit one at night except pray it doesn’t sink you.

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#136 Figurehead of 500-year-old wreck is a sea monster swallowing a screaming man

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#137 Hit an eerie patch of calm about 20 miles from the mainland. Just flat and deep in all directions

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#138 Bahahha *loses consciousness*

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#139 This is me in gavdos, greece on the southernmost point of europe. Across the see is libya and nothing else between

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#140 This picture i took from below the diving pier in a lake looks very eerie

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#141 “that is not dead which can eternal lie” – ussr, circa 1970s. A large monument of lenin, sunk in the black sea after the dissolution of the soviet union

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#142 Dean’s blue hole

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#143 I don’t know if ocean whirlpools are fictional, but damn

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#144 Uss olympia… This photo makes me really uncomfortable

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#145 Last freedive trip – does this give anyone the chills?

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#146 I was having so much fun i forgot how far from our airbnb island i wandered

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#147 Cool image of just how big boats are!

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#148 The arch of the blue hole in egypt which has claimed the lives of an estimated 130 people from 1997-2012

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#149 Have a seat, stay awhile

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#150 This buoy bobs on 20 feet/6m swells in the bering sea waters of alaska – photo by corey arnold

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#151 Into the mist

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#152 Who wants to drive it like this

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#153 80.5000 s, 94.0000 w by alex konstad

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#154 These steps from a boardwalk into the atlantic ocean

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#155 This massive capsizing ship (mv princess) is easily obscured under what is barely the very surface of the ocean depths

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#156 This would be seen from the diver’s pov

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#157 An a. I. Generated image using the keyword thalassophobia

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#158 “oil rocks” (“the soviet atlantis”) is an industrial settlement consisting of platforms built on the caspian sea, 40 km from the nearest coast of azerbaijan. The city is home to 2000 people today

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#159 Cave divers in an underwater cave near the yucatan peninsula by daniel riordan-araujo

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#160 I took a photo of the caribbean sea

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#161 Me drifting in the sea while a storm is approaching quickly

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#162 This image posted by reef on instagram

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#163 Just trying to trigger myself in photoshop

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#164 Lights ‘cross open sea

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#165 Taiwanese athletes in aida diving competition

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#166 The finnish nature photograph of the year by antti strang

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