ARKive dives deeper for digital imagery
ARKive is calling on the global diving community to help in the ongoing search for films and photographs of the world’s most endangered marine species.
With many hundreds of the world’s ocean-dwelling animals and plants now threatened with extinction, ARKive is looking to the world’s divers to help in the quest to audio-visually profile as many of these as possible, enabling ARKive users to dive beneath the waves and come face to face with some of the rarest and most amazing creatures imaginable, without even getting wet.
Unlocking the underwater treasure chest
 Award-winning Save our Seas photographer and ARKive contributor, Tom Peschak, has experienced first hand the power of imagery as an effective conservation tool.
“Hanifaru Bay in the Maldives is home to one of the world's largest and most important manta ray feeding aggregations. My photographs provided the first visual showcase of Hanifaru and introduced this living, breathing, yet fragile marine ecosystem to the world. And I am glad to say that Hanifaru Bay is now a marine protected area.”
"For me ARKive provides the perfect home for high quality marine imagery that would rarely be seen by the public. It is a great feeling to be a part of one of the 21st century’s most important conservation education tools. It is wonderful to think my photographs on ARKive are helping to raise awareness across the world. Divers have the unique ability to venture beneath the sea’s surface and experience first hand the amazing biodiversity, yet fragility of the marine realm. ARKive is an opportunity for underwater photographers to take the marine conservation mission one step further. By contributing copies of their images to ARKive, they will not only be able to share their encounters with hundreds of thousands of people around the world, but they will play a key role in inspiring non-divers to appreciate and protect our fragile underwater world.”
Become an ARKive dive buddy
The ARKive team is searching for a huge variety of marine imagery, from the mightiest great white shark down to the tiniest pygmy seahorse. If you are a diver and have images from your underwater adventures, then ARKive would like to hear from you.
Email us at arkive@wildscreen.org.uk or upload to www.flickr.com/groups/arkive using the tag ‘marine’.
Thanks to the generous contributions of divers and underwater photographers, a wide variety of threatened marine species already appear on ARKive. Check out some of our salty H20 highlights below:
 Code of conduct for underwater divers from Project AWARE
There are a number of points to consider before attempting any photography in a fragile environment. Be sure to protect underwater environments before, during and after every dive. Download and share Project AWARE's ten tips for underwater photographers.
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