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Joel Bergsma
Beneath the surface since 2009.
Philippines · Palau · Chuuk · Cozumel · Sea of Cortez · Bonaire · Belize · Galapagos
photographs from 13 expeditions
5 m
The reef
Light still reaches here.
12 m
Encounters
The ones that looked back.
14 m
Frame by frame
Ten minutes, seven frames.
18 m
The wrecks
Iron, seventy years under.
Field notes
Diving the Hiyo Maru Wreck in the Chuuk Lagoon in January 2016
Cayman Islands · 2014
Chuuk Lagoon · 2016
Chuuk Lagoon · 2016
30 m
Night dives
Small, strange, electric.
The chart
Expedition log
Thirteen seas, 2011 to 2026.
The index
Species index
238 subjects, named.
Ascent
About Joel
Half a century of going to look.
Joel Bergsma has been diving with a camera since 2009. His archive spans the Coral Triangle, the Western Pacific, the Caribbean and the Sea of Cortez: reef walls and WWII wrecks, mantas and sea lions, and the small, strange animals of the muck. He shoots and edits under the name Blue World of Wonder.
Surface · 0 m
Prints and licensing.
Frames from the archive are printed on archival paper, and licensed for editorial and conservation work. Tell me which frame and where it is going.