The winners of the prestigious 5th annual World Underwater international underwater photography & video competition have been announced! Thousands of entries from dozens of countries around the world impressed an esteemed judging panel. Each year the bar is set higher and we congratulate all of the participants from for such magnificent ocean related imagery.

Photographers & videographers competed in seven still-image categories and two video categories, to win nearly $50,000 in prizes from our very gracious sponsors. Prizes included diving packages to some of the top photo destinations in the world, including The Sea of Cortez, Wakatobi-Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Red Sea, Grand Cayman, the Solomon Islands, Vietnam and Norway. Other prizes included underwater photography gear, focus lights, Cressi dive equipment and other valuable items.

Esteemed judges included leading professional underwater photographers, cinematographers and magazine editors: Eric Cheng, David Doubilet, Ric Frazier, Alex Mustard, and Berkley White comprised the judging panel for still categories, and Steve Douglas, Eric Hanauer and Mary Lynn Price for video categories.

More information abaout this competition :

http://www.underwatercompetition.com/News/Our-World-Underwater-2010-Winners-Announced

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