2024 Winners of the LegaSea Summer Photo Competition

Dive Pacific and NZUA would like to congratulate the winners of the LegaSea Summer photo competition 2024

March 12, 2024
Judy Ormandy takes out the underwater photo 1st place. An amazing image of a cheeky blue cod up close and personal.
Judy Ormandy takes out the underwater photo 1st place. An amazing image of a cheeky blue cod up close and personal.
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Warrick Powrie
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Congratulations goes to Judy Ormandy for her stunning image of a cheeky Blue cod.

Judy wins for herself a very cool SeaLife SportDiver housing. Dive Pacific and NZUA would like to thank Sealife for Sponsoring this awesome prize and Splash for donating it for this competition.
Contact Splash for more information https://www.splash.co.nz/

With so many amazing images sent in, it was very hard to pick a winner.

A photo speaks a thousand words. Our seas and the creatures within them are continually hammered by poor environmental practices such as trawling and dredging. By sharing your beautiful images, you are showing others the value of our oceans, and teaching them how wonderful our marine environment is. It is important that we look after it for the generations to follow. 
Dive Pacific and NZUA would like to thank you all for your support.
More images will be available on our Facebook page soon.
https://www.facebook.com/DIVEpacificNewZealand
https://www.facebook.com/nzunderwater

The SportDiver housing will allow divers to take photos and video with their smartphone down to 40 meters.

The SportDiver can encase most Android models and all iPhones from iPhone 8 & up. The free SportDiver App is available at the App Store or Play Store, and works with the current and prior generation of the OS.
The SportDiver can encase most Android models and all iPhones from iPhone 8 & up. The free SportDiver App is available at the App Store or Play Store, and works with the current and prior generation of the OS.

Read more about the  SeaLife SportDiver Smartphone Housing here.https://www.splash.co.nz/sealife-sportdiver-housing/

Underwater Photo Category Runners up

2nd goes to this stunning image of a Diadema palmeri. Taken on a nightdive at the Poor Knights, while moving across kelp and looking stunning. By Andy Belcher.
2nd goes to this stunning image of a Diadema palmeri. Taken on a nightdive at the Poor Knights, while moving across kelp and looking stunning. By Andy Belcher.
3rd Blue mao mao reflected in the bubble cave at Middle Arch, Poor Knights Islands. By Andy Belcher
3rd Blue mao mao reflected in the bubble cave at Middle Arch, Poor Knights Islands. By Andy Belcher
An honorable mention goes to Olivia Fraser, for this great under/over image of the Emerald Cave Goat Island as a freediver emerges from the cave after some exploration underwater. These split images are not easy to achieve.
An honorable mention goes to Olivia Fraser, for this great under/over image of the Emerald Cave Goat Island as a freediver emerges from the cave after some exploration underwater. These split images are not easy to achieve.

For more information about LegaSea visit:www.legasea.co.nz
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I started scuba diving in 1988. I have always been passionate about marine conservation and underwater photography.

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