We’ve asked divers of all ages and levels what is the thrill, emotion, or experience that keeps bringing them back underwater. Here is what they said…

What I love most in a dive is:

1. Flowing with a gentle current while enjoying reef life

TOBIAS FRIEDRICH (@below_surface_uw_photography)

2. Feeling a shiver run down my spine as I catch the eye of a sandbar shark moving towards me

Mike Scott (@mikescottphotography)

3. Discovering fish behavior… such as observing two moray eels fighting!

Rainbow Scuba Hawaii (@rainbowscubahawaii)

4. Seeing the wonder and amazement in my buddy’s eyes

5. Rediscovering, each and every time, the incredible variety of life teeming underwater, even in a tiny speck of reef

Alex Mustard (@alexmustard1)

6. Discovering, in each dive, a marine species that I didn’t know

BBC Earth (@bbcearth)

7. Observing remoras while they swim under the belly of a shark

Duncan Edwood (@dunjan1)

8. Meeting a remora that mistakes me for a shark, and attaches itself to me!

Jen Bueno (@jen.buenoo)

9. Watching a turtle peacefully falling asleep

Frame Zero (@framezero.photo)

10. Feeling, for the entire dive, part of a different reality

Fabrice Guerin (@fabriceguerin)

11. Trying to swim and move exactly like the fish I’m watching

Pretaplonger.com (@pretaplonger)

12. Keeping myself and my mind in check in an environment where, actually, I have no control over anything

Katerina Pitsou Santorini (@katerinapitsou)

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