Underwater Photographs of Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest, Underwater Stock Photography

Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, Eumetopias jubatus
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, Eumetopias jubatus
Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Adams River sockeye salmon. A female sockeye salmon swims upstream in the Adams River to spawn, having traveled hundreds of miles upstream from the ocean, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Adams River sockeye salmon. A female sockeye salmon swims upstream in the Adams River to spawn, having traveled hundreds of miles upstream from the ocean.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Urticina piscivora
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Pink Soft Coral, Gersemia Rubiformis, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Gersemia rubiformis
Pink Soft Coral, Gersemia Rubiformis, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Urticina piscivora
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia.
Stars at night over Hurst Island, Gods Pocket Resort
Stars at night over Hurst Island, Gods Pocket Resort.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, Eumetopias jubatus
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Urticina piscivora
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Steller Sea Lions and Bald Eagles atop Norris Rocks, Hornby Island and Vancouver Island, panoramic photo, Eumetopias jubatus
Steller Sea Lions and Bald Eagles atop Norris Rocks, Hornby Island and Vancouver Island, panoramic photo.
Browning Pass aerial photo, with Nigei Island (left) and Balackava Island (right)
Browning Pass aerial photo, with Nigei Island (left) and Balackava Island (right).
Dive Boat Hurst Island, Browning Pass, Canada, aerial photo
Dive Boat Hurst Island, Browning Pass, Canada, aerial photo.
Vancouver Island hosts a profusion of spectacular anemones, on cold water reefs rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium farcimen
Vancouver Island hosts a profusion of spectacular anemones, on cold water reefs rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Steller Sea Lions atop Norris Rocks, Hornby Island in the distance, panoramic photo, Eumetopias jubatus
Steller Sea Lions atop Norris Rocks, Hornby Island in the distance, panoramic photo.
A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Sockeye salmon, migrating upstream in the Adams River to return to the spot where they were hatched four years earlier, where they will spawn, lay eggs and die, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Sockeye salmon, migrating upstream in the Adams River to return to the spot where they were hatched four years earlier, where they will spawn, lay eggs and die.
Moon jelly, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada, Aurelia aurita
Moon jelly, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island, Dirona albolineata
Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island.
Fleshy Sea Pen, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Vancouver Island, Ptilosarcus gurneyi
Fleshy Sea Pen, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Metridium and proliferating anemones cling to bull kelp. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium senile, Nereocystis luetkeana
Metridium and proliferating anemones cling to bull kelp. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Pink Soft Coral (Gersemia Rubiformis), and Plumose Anemones (Metridium senile) cover the ocean reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Gersemia rubiformis, Metridium senile
Pink Soft Coral (Gersemia Rubiformis), and Plumose Anemones (Metridium senile) cover the ocean reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Colorful starfish (sea stars) cling to the reef, covered with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Colorful starfish (sea stars) cling to the reef, covered with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium farcimen
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Vancouver Island hosts a profusion of spectacular anemones, on cold water reefs rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island hosts a profusion of spectacular anemones, on cold water reefs rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Urticina piscivora
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Dendronotus iris swimming nudibranch, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Dendronotus iris
Dendronotus iris swimming nudibranch, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Fleshy Sea Pen, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Vancouver Island, Ptilosarcus gurneyi
Fleshy Sea Pen, Ptilosarcus gurneyi, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Yellow sulphur sponge and white metridium anemones, on a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Halichondria panicea, Metridium senile
Yellow sulphur sponge and white metridium anemones, on a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, Eumetopias jubatus
Steller sea lions underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks.
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks, Metridium farcimen
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks.
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks
Colorful anemones and soft corals, bryozoans and kelp cover the rocky reef in a kelp forest near Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Strait. Strong currents bring nutrients to the invertebrate life clinging to the rocks.
Orange Peel Nudibranch, Tochuina gigantea, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Tochuina gigantea
Orange Peel Nudibranch, Tochuina gigantea, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Red Irish Lord eye detail, Browning Pass, British Columbia, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus
Red Irish Lord eye detail, Browning Pass, British Columbia.
Red Nudibranch, Dendronotus rufus, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Dendronotus rufus
Red Nudibranch, Dendronotus rufus, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Hurst Island and Gods Pocket Provincial Park, aerial photo
Hurst Island and Gods Pocket Provincial Park, aerial photo.
Basket Star and Giant Metridium anemone, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, Metridium farcimen
Basket Star and Giant Metridium anemone, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Metridium farcimen
Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia.
Sea grass in motion, shallow water. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Sea grass in motion, shallow water. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Colorful starfish (sea stars) cling to the reef, covered with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Colorful starfish (sea stars) cling to the reef, covered with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Mussels gather on a rocky reef, filtering nutrients from passing ocean currents. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Mussels gather on a rocky reef, filtering nutrients from passing ocean currents. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Shallow water reef with coniferous forest hanging over the water, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Shallow water reef with coniferous forest hanging over the water, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Shallow water reef with coniferous forest hanging over the water, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Shallow water reef with coniferous forest hanging over the water, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Typical vibrant invertebrate life, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Typical vibrant invertebrate life, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Urticina piscivora
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Starfish cling to a rocky reef, surrounded by other colorful invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Starfish cling to a rocky reef, surrounded by other colorful invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus
Red Irish Lord sculpinfish, Browning Pass, British Columbia.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium senile
White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Anemones are found in abundance on a spectacular British Columbia underwater reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Metridium farcimen
Plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
Colorful starfish cling to submarine rocks, on the subtidal reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Colorful starfish cling to submarine rocks, on the subtidal reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Spotted Leopard Dorid, Diaulula odonoghuei, Vancouver Island, Diaulula odonoghuei
Spotted Leopard Dorid, Diaulula odonoghuei, Vancouver Island.
Beautiful Anemone on Rocky Reef near Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada
Beautiful Anemone on Rocky Reef near Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
White plumose anemones Metridium senile with purple sponge and barnacle, Vancouver Island
White plumose anemones Metridium senile with purple sponge and barnacle, Vancouver Island.
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Urticina piscivora
The Fish Eating Anemone Urticina piscivora, a large colorful anemone found on the rocky underwater reefs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina on kelp and rocky reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada, Melibe leonina
Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina on kelp and rocky reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Barnacle filtering food from passing ocean currents, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Barnacle filtering food from passing ocean currents, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada
Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Tiny fish, unidentified, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island
Tiny fish, unidentified, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island, Dirona albolineata
Alabaster Nudibranch, white-lined dirona, Dirona albolineata, Vancouver Island.
Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, Triopha catalinae
Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island.
Ophiodon elongatus, Lingcod, Hornby Island, Canada
Ophiodon elongatus, Lingcod, Hornby Island, Canada.
Seymour Narrows with strong tidal currents. Between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island, Seymour Narrows is about 750 meters wide and has currents reaching 15 knots. Aerial photo
Seymour Narrows with strong tidal currents. Between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island, Seymour Narrows is about 750 meters wide and has currents reaching 15 knots. Aerial photo.
A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die.
A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Selfie with Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, Eumetopias jubatus
Selfie with Steller sea lion underwater, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina swimming in mid water column, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada, Melibe leonina
Hooded Nudibranch Melibe leonina swimming in mid water column, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Two male sockeye salmon, swimming together against the current of the Adams River. After four years of life and two migrations of the Fraser and Adams Rivers, they will soon fertilize a female's eggs and then die, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Two male sockeye salmon, swimming together against the current of the Adams River. After four years of life and two migrations of the Fraser and Adams Rivers, they will soon fertilize a female's eggs and then die.
Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, line the edge of the Adams River. These salmon have already completed their spawning and have died, while other salmon are still swimming upstream and have yet to lay their eggs, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, line the edge of the Adams River. These salmon have already completed their spawning and have died, while other salmon are still swimming upstream and have yet to lay their eggs.
Sockeye salmon, swim upstream in the Adams River, traveling to reach the place where they hatched four years earlier in order to spawn a new generation of salmon eggs, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Sockeye salmon, swim upstream in the Adams River, traveling to reach the place where they hatched four years earlier in order to spawn a new generation of salmon eggs.
Colorful reef scene on Vancouver Island, known for its underwater landscapes teeming with rich invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium farcimen
Colorful reef scene on Vancouver Island, known for its underwater landscapes teeming with rich invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Metridium senile
White metridium anemones fed by strong ocean currents, cover a cold water reef teeming with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium farcimen
Giant Plumose Anemones cover underwater reef, Browning Pass, northern Vancouver Island, Canada.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Purple sponge with white and orange metridium anemones, below bull kelp forest, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Nereocystis luetkeana
Purple sponge with white and orange metridium anemones, below bull kelp forest, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Lopholithodes mandtii Puget Sound King Crab amid a field of plumose anemones and red kelp, Queen Charlotte Strait, Canada, Lopholithodes mandtii
Lopholithodes mandtii Puget Sound King Crab amid a field of plumose anemones and red kelp, Queen Charlotte Strait, Canada.
Plumose anemones and Bull Kelp on British Columbia marine reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada, Metridium senile, Nereocystis luetkeana
Plumose anemones and Bull Kelp on British Columbia marine reef, Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Copper Rockfish Sebastes caurinus with pink soft corals and reef invertebrate life, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Sebastes caurinus
Copper Rockfish Sebastes caurinus with pink soft corals and reef invertebrate life, Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
White Plumose anemones Metridium senile and Yellow Sulphur Sponge, Vancouver Island, Halichondria panicea, Metridium senile
White Plumose anemones Metridium senile and Yellow Sulphur Sponge, Vancouver Island.
Sea Lemon, Anisodoris nobilis, Vancouver Island, Anisodoris nobilis
Sea Lemon, Anisodoris nobilis, Vancouver Island.
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada, Nereocystis luetkeana
Bull kelp forest near Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass, Canada.
Red Irish Lord resting amid Plumose Metridium Anemones, Browning Pass, British Columbia, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus, Metridium farcimen
Red Irish Lord resting amid Plumose Metridium Anemones, Browning Pass, British Columbia.
Chiton, Vancouver Island, Canada
Chiton, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Clouds over Nigei Island at sunrise, Vancouver Island, Canada
Clouds over Nigei Island at sunrise, Vancouver Island, Canada.
Seymour Narrows with strong tidal currents. Between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island, Seymour Narrows is about 750 meters wide and has currents reaching 15 knots. Aerial photo
Seymour Narrows with strong tidal currents. Between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island, Seymour Narrows is about 750 meters wide and has currents reaching 15 knots. Aerial photo.
Chrome Island (foreground) and Denman Island, Hornby Island in the distance
Chrome Island (foreground) and Denman Island, Hornby Island in the distance.
A male sockeye salmon, showing injuries sustained as it migrated hundreds of miles from the ocean up the Fraser River, swims upstream in the Adams River to reach the place where it will fertilize eggs laid by a female in the rocks. It will die soon after spawning, Oncorhynchus nerka, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
A male sockeye salmon, showing injuries sustained as it migrated hundreds of miles from the ocean up the Fraser River, swims upstream in the Adams River to reach the place where it will fertilize eggs laid by a female in the rocks. It will die soon after spawning.