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Fabrice Guérin

This pair of orcas, or killer whales, were swimming in Baja California, Mexico when Fabrice Guerin photographed them. The image was shortlisted in the ‘Incredible Wildlife’ category.

In the near-freezing waters of northern Norway, Fabrice Guerin bade his time in front of a shoal of herring in the hope of seeing an orca. To his surprise, this humpback whale appeared instead.

Photographer Fabrice Guerin witnessed this humpback calf play as its mother quietly watched over it. “Suddenly,” he says, “she decided to move. They joined at the surface and the baby rubbed his mother like [giving her] a hug.”

Sperm whales spend small parts of their days napping in a vertical position. In Fabrice Guerin’s image, a free diver swims around without disturbing these sleeping beauties. “Nature provides beautiful surprises,” he writes.

A shaft of sunlight illuminates a diver swimming in a cenote. “When you dive in a cenote,” writes Fabrice Guerin, “you become an adventurer and archaeologist,” discovering something new behind each rock.

When you dive Cenote Angelita, explains Fabrice Guerin, “the light goes from green to blue, creating a surreal scene. A layer of hydrogen sulphide separates the fresh water from the deeper salt water, creating ‘another world.’”

"It's always exciting to discover another world. Liquid, dark without life. Just stones, huge stalactites and stalagmites,” writes Fabrice Guerin. But, “sometimes, the natural light reminds you that there is an outside world."

Shooting underwater has shown Fabrice Guerin evidence of climate change in action. Shoals of fish like these, hunted by speedy sailfish and “essential [to] the survival of the other marine species are slowly disappearing,” he writes.

These sperm whales are half asleep, bobbing underwater while almost completely vertical. While conducting scientific research, a free diver swims between the whales, without using any equipment to breathe.

A blue shark follows a scuba diver in the waters of the Azores, Portugal. Male blue sharks typically weigh between 60-120 pounds, with female blue sharks more than doubling that.