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RICK VOLLARO
has 4 photos featured in the article “The Jupiter Shadow: A Dream Encounter at 90 Feet” in DiverNet
ROB MYERS
was co-author of a paper “New and recent records of fishes from the Mariana Islands, western Pacific Ocean” in February.
OLIE TURNER III
is Dive Photographer of the Week at Dive Photo Guide.
LINDA IANNIELLO
has 5 photos featured in the article “Want to survive in the dark ocean? Use a stinging shield” in National Geographic Animals
GABRIEL JENSEN
did a presentation “Secrets of the Neon Sea” on Facebook Live with Force-E Scuba Centers
GABRIEL JENSEN
won 1st place in the Invertebrate category and 3rd place in the Fish Portrait category for the REEF 2025 Discover the Sea Photography Contest
LINDA IANNIELLO
has a photo that was used to Illustrate Nanuca leali in the Opisthobranch of the Week (10/12/25)
LINDA IANNIELLO
has 2 photos featured in the article “Armed With Anemones: How Some Young Fishes Survive in the Sea” in The New York Times
RICH COLLINS
is featured in the article “Armed With Anemones: How Some Young Fishes Survive in the Sea” in The New York Times
GABRIEL JENSEN
has an article “Review of the Backscatter Fluorescence Filter System” in Dive Photo Guide
GARY ROSE
has an article ““Multiples: Wild Beauty in Numbers” in the Feature section of X-ray Magazine
OLIE TURNER III
won 3rd place in the Advanced Macro Unrestricted Category at the 2025 Backscatter Monterey Shootout.
MARCIA RIEDERER
won the Fine Art award of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 contest with her image of a dwarf minke whale.
RICH COLLINS
is a co-author of a new scientific paper titled “Associations between fishes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) and anthozoans (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) in epipelagic waters based on in situ records.” Both Rich and Linda Ianniello contributed images (taken during local black water dives) to the paper which can be found here.
JAMES FERRARA
won “Best of Show” in the Dive Photo Guide’s Underwater Awards Australasia 2025, with his image of a leopard seal in the International Waters category.
MARCIA RIEDERER
won the Dive Photo Guide’s Underwater Awards Australasia 2025 Australia category.
MARYLINE RENAULT
won “bronze” in the Dive Photo Guide’s Underwater Awards Australasia 2025 – International Waters category.
LINDA IANNIELLO
had her images used in a paper to describe a new nudibranch species located in our area, Nanuca leali. They were also used in an article written by Jose’ Leal, who the nudibranch was named after.
GABRIEL JENSEN
has a new article on diving in Puerto Rico in the latest issue of Scuba Diving Magazine
GABRIEL JENSEN
was awarded second place by the Florida Wildlife Federation for his image of a Caribbean Spiny Lobster.
GABRIEL JENSEN
had his image of a diamond squid featured by National Geographic.
REMUNA BECA
won first place in the Portraits category of Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year, 2025.
GABRIEL JENSEN
won first place in the Portraits category of Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year, 2025.
GRACE PEMPEK
had her image of a goliath grouper on the Zion wreck selected for the latest edition of Alert Diver, in their article on the study of this species.
GABRIEL JENSEN
has his images on display at Juno Beach Town Hall in an exhibit entitled “Under the Sea” through August 13th.
KAREN EDWARDS
had her film, “Palau” screened in the Feature-Length category at the 2025 Houston Underwater Film Festival. Hers was one of 54 films from 29 countries to be featured, selected from ~500 entries for this year’s festival.
PAULINE WALSH JACOBSON
had some of her images of jawfish taken at Blue Heron Bridge featured in Coral Magazine’s May-June 2025 issue
TAI OLAYORI
is Dive Photo Guide’s Photographer of the Week for May 15, 2025.
MARK KOSARIN
is exhibiting a gallery of his images at the Highland Beach Library. The grand opening is on May 8th from 5 to 7pm, and the exhibit is on display through July 22nd.
MARTY GILMAN
gave a presentation about the Blue Heron Bridge Book at Stuart Scuba.
RICHARD COLLINS
is a co-author of a recent scientific paper titled “Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers.” The following members submitted images that were used in the paper: Richard Collins, Deb Devers, Linda Ianniello, Steven Kovacs, Susan Mears, Walt Stearns and Andrea Whitaker.
GARY ROSE
has an article entitled “Shades of White” in the Features section of issue #132 of X-Ray Mag (April 2025).
BRYANT TURFFS
won the Compact Cameras category of the 2025 Underwater Photographer of the Year with his image The Beauty of the Swamp, a striking portrait of a prehistoric Florida gar.
STEVE KOVACS
won first place in the Black Water category of the World Shootout 2024.
TOM POFF
won 2nd Place at the National Creative Arts Festival in Las Vegas with his portrait of a shark.
STEVE KOVACS
won fourth place in the Blackwater category of the 2024 Ocean Art Contest.
TAMARA CHRISTIAN
is Dive Photo Guide’s Photographer of the Week for March 21, 2025.
CHRIS GUG
won Honorable Mention in the 2024 DPG Masters Underwater Imaging Contest in the Traditional category.
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