Underwater Photographer of the Year is announced annually to celebrate underwater photography in all its forms. Taking you on an awe-inducing journey, these hand-picked winners (from 100 others) for 2022 reveal amazing ocean spectacles and species, and capture vistas from flooded mines to deep shipwrecks, while many more come from home countries and some are even taken in swimming pools.
A stunning photograph of five whale sharks feeding together at night, in the waters off the Maldives, has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2022 title for Rafael Fernandez Caballero from Spain.