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Great news! By popular demand, we’ve extended the deadline of the Underwater Awards Australasia 2026! You now have an additional week to submit your entries—but submissions must close on Sunday, July 26th!

So, this really is your final chance to claim your share of $70,000 worth of prizes: awesome dive trips with Dive Damai, Cozy Scuba Club, Walindi Dive Resort, Lembeh Resort/Murex Resorts, Silver Reef Dive Resort, Lissenung Island Resort, and Aquatica Dive Resort; as well as fabulous equipment from Fotocore, QYSEA, SUBLUE, Aquatech, OM System, Kraken Sports, SeaLife, Backscatter, Isotta, Garmin, Fourth Element, Inon, OrcaTorch, and Saga Dive; not to mention a 2-day PADI Freediving course with Abyss Scuba Diving, a double dive at Nguthungulli Julian Rocks with Sundive Byron Bay, and a one-year membership to The Underwater Club.

For six of the nine categories—Smartphone/Action Cam, Tough TG, Conservation, Portfolio, Reels Showcase, and new category Only Water—entries must have been shot in the Australasian region, which includes Australia, New Zealand, and the countries of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia (see map). The remaining categories are Sydney (images captured in the waters of Metropolitan Sydney), Australian (images from Australia and its internal territories), and International Waters (images from anywhere!).

Submissions will be judged by a prestigious panel—photo judges Tobias Friedrich, Jayne Jenkins, Matty Smith, and Scott Portelli; video judge Ross Long; and special category judge Ray Collins—and the winners will be announced, and exhibited, at the Go Diving Show ANZ in September.

No more time to waste! Head over to UnderwaterCompetition.com to enter your masterpieces today! (And please don’t forget to read the rules and guidelines carefully first.) The competition is an industry-first three-way collaboration between DPG, Underwater Australasia, and UW Images. Entry fees are US$10 per image or video entered.
 

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