UPY 2025

UPY  Wrecks - Highly Commended
'Parat and Fernedale'
Pekka Tuuri

This is a famous wreck site in Norway. It’s possible to see two wrecks (Parat, on the left and Fernedale, on the right) at the same time if the visibility is excellent. The dive team planned this picture on the deck of the dive boat. I hovered at 40 m while my friends dived deeper and visited Parat and moved along the paths that we had talked about. I am very fortunate to be able to dive with competent teams! Plan the dive and shoot the plan, the famous principle of diving adapted to photography!

Judge's comment: How do top one wreck? Shoot two in the same frame. This is a masterful composition with the divers lights revealing the detail on the foreground wreck balanced perfectly by the atmospheric second wreck in the background on the opposite side of the frame.
- Alex Mustard