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Marine biologist and amateur photographer Jialing Cai has been named Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023 with his photograph of a nautilus floating on a piece of ocean debris. <\/p>

By <\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 17 October 2023 at 11:58 AM<\/p>

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The Ocean Photographer of the Year <\/a><\/em>has a simple mission: to shine a light on the beauty of the ocean and the threats it faces.<\/strong><\/p>

This year the photographs included stunning wildlife encounters <\/strong>such as airborne penguins<\/a>, a lizardfish that\u2019s bitten off more than it can chew and a playful polar bear<\/a>; spectacular seascapes<\/strong>, including humpback whales<\/a> feeding next to cathedral-like icebergs<\/a>, a herd of goats on the edge of a coastal desert and narwhals <\/a>scything through silty water; beautiful interpretations of the human-ocean connection, <\/strong>from surfers queuing for a rainbow wave, divers discovering ancient Mayan skeletons in pitch-black flooded caves, and kayakers floating amongst the ice in the Arctic wilderness.<\/p>

Image credit: Jialing Cai\/Ocean Photographer of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Jialing Cai won the thew title of Ocean Photographer of the Year with her stunning image of a paper nautilus floating on a piece of ocean debris (above), photographed on a blackwater dive following a volcanic eruption in the Philippines.<\/p>

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Image credit: Andrei Savi\/Ocean Photographer of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Andrei Savin was named runner-up with his astonishing image of a crab sat in the middle of a sea anemone. <\/p>

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Image credit: Alvaro Herrero Lopez-Beltran\/Ocean Photographer of the Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Third place was awarded to Alvaro Herrero Lopez-Beltran for his distressing but thought-provoking image of an entangled whale. <\/p>

All this year\u2019s imagery will be showcased at a 5-month-long exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia. The exhibition will open to the public on November 17th.<\/p>

The competition is produced by Oceanographic Magazine, this year in partnership with Blancpain, Arksen and Tourism Western Australia.<\/p>

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