UPY 2025

UPY  Wrecks - Winner
'Abandoned ship'
Alex Dawson

The wreck of Tyrifjord is one of the favorite wrecks in the Gulen dive resort area of Norway. She sits in approximately 40 metres and is very sheltered from most winds. This is one of the dives we always try to do on our wreck safari that we try to do almost every year. We are a mixed group of Norwegians, Swedish, Danish and Dutch that usually meet up. The highlight of the wreck is always the huge extra steering wheel in the aft. You can see the 50+ foot dive boat up on the surface from 40 meters depth at the top.

Judge's comment: Excellent composed image of a truly not easy subject. With poor visibility and lighting conditions, wrecks in those depths are not easy to photograph. Alex did a great job by a minimalistic, but also intense and dramatic lighting of the steering wheel, maybe one of the most recognizable part of a ship, which drags the viewer straight into it. I knew immediately when I saw the image for the first time that it would go far in the competition. - Tobias Friedrich