Our ContributorsPhotographersCarlos Rodríguez V. (122) More files... www.carlosunderwater.com
Carlos Rodríguez was born in Venezuela and recently moved to Costa Rica. In 1998 he began his life as a diver, becoming certified as Advance Open Water Diver and making this activity one of the great passions of his life. To date he has more than 1000 dives made in different parts of the world: Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Florida Keys, Tobago, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Venezuela, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Roatan, Costa Rica and Cayman Islands are some of the places he has visited to explore its underwater.

His evolution from diver to photographer was initiated by the need to capture the wonders of the underwater world, but he did not settle solely with the image, but began to complete those records with research, in an autodidactic process in which he harmoniously combines science, art and passion. It takes advantage of the astonishment that the image produces to educate and to foment the respect for the immense diversity that exists under the water.
Caribbean reef shark with a fishing hook caught in its mouth reef shark,shark,sharks,sharks and rays,elasmobranch,elasmobranchs,elasmobranchii,predator,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,reef,reef life,mouth,line,caught,fishin
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Caribbean reef shark with a fishing hook caught in its mouth
Caribbean reef shark swimming overhead reef shark,shark,sharks,sharks and rays,elasmobranch,elasmobranchs,elasmobranchii,predator,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,reef,reef life,black and white,b&w,Cari
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Caribbean reef shark swimming overhead
Caribbean reef shark swimming overhead reef shark,shark,sharks,sharks and rays,elasmobranch,elasmobranchs,elasmobranchii,predator,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,reef,reef life,mouth,fins,Caribbean ree
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Caribbean reef shark swimming overhead
Caribbean reef shark swimming overhead reef shark,shark,sharks,sharks and rays,elasmobranch,elasmobranchs,elasmobranchii,predator,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,reef,reef life,mouth,belly,shark sucker
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Caribbean reef shark swimming overhead
Close up of a black grouper marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,fish,reef fish,predator,reef life,reef,coral reef,grouper,tropical,coral,Black grouper,Mycteroperca bonaci,Bass and Perches,Percif
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Close up of a black grouper
An established coral in rays of sunlight coral,corals,coral reef,reef life,invertebrate,invertebrates,marine invertebrate,marine invertebrates,habitat,tropical,sunlight,rays,elkhorn coral,elkhorn
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An established coral in rays of sunlight
A great barracuda snared on a fishing line in the reef marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,fish,reef fish,predator,silver fish,barracuda,line,caught,fishing,trap,prey,victim,trapped,snare,Great barracuda,Sphyraena barracu
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A great barracuda snared on a fishing line in the reef
Close up of a channel clinging crab and its large claws Channel clinging crab,crab,crabs,crustacean,crustaceans,exoskeleton,claw,claws,reef,reef life,Animalia,Arthropoda,Crustacea,Malacostraca,Decapoda,Brachyura,Majidae,Mithrax,Mithrax spinosissimus,close
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Close up of a channel clinging crab and its large claws
Nassau grouper swimming over reef marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,fish,reef fish,predator,reef life,reef,coral reef,grouper,tropical,Nassau grouper,Epinephelus striatus,Chordates,Chordata,Actinopt
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Nassau grouper swimming over reef
Caribbean reef shark with a fishing hook caught in its mouth reef shark,shark,sharks,sharks and rays,elasmobranch,elasmobranchs,elasmobranchii,predator,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,reef,reef life,line,caught,fishing,trap
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Caribbean reef shark with a fishing hook caught in its mouth
Close up of a hawksbill turtle showing its front flipper hawksbill,turtle,turtles,sea turtle,sea turtles,beak,cold blooded,reptile,reptiles,reef,reef life,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean,oceans,water,underwater,aquatic,flipper,flippers,claws,swimming,
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Close up of a hawksbill turtle showing its front flipper
Caribbean triggerfish close up Caribbean sharpnose-puffer,puffer,pufferfish,sharpnose puffer,Animalia,Chordata,Actinopterygii,Tetraodontiformes,Tetraodontidae,Canthigaster,Canthigaster rostrata,marine,marine life,sea,sea life,ocean
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Caribbean triggerfish close up