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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

A pitch-black underwater cave, a diver, and a fragile ecosystem: This award-winning underwater image is both terrifying and inspiring

Diver in underwater cave. .

Sometimes, the best images create warring emotions – and that's certainly the case with a photograph that recently won the “Connecting Oceans” category of the Photo Competition for United Nations (UN) World Oceans Day.

Created by Valentina Cucchiara (Italy), the frame depicts a diver seemingly suspended in the water while navigating what looks like a bottomless cave. This is, in fact, Cenote Nariz, a huge subterranean aquifer located on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

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