Beneath the Sea 2006 sets worldwide photo/video competition

Beneath the Sea 2006 invites photographers and videographers to enter its annual Worldwide Underwater photo/video competition.

Underwater photographers will compete for the David Doubilet award for excellence in underwater photography – the Grand Prize is a trip for one on either of Mike Ball's liveaboards: The Spoilsport sailing from Townsville, Australia across the Great Barrier Reef into the Coral Sea, or the Paradise Sport in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Underwater videographers will compete for the Stan Waterman award for excellence in underwater video; the Grand Prize is a trip for one aboard the Nai'a in Fiji.

Underwater photographic artists compete for the Jim Church award for excellence in underwater creative photography; this year's Grand Prize is a trip for one aboard the M.V. Telita in Papua, New Guinea.

Submit your underwater photographic entry to the BTS 2006 Worldwide Photo/Video Competition. Deadline is Dec. 31st, 2005. For contest rules and entry blank visit BTS at http://www.beneaththesea.org.

The winners of the BTS 2006 Worldwide Photo/Video Competition will be announced at the Saturday Film Festival the weekend of Beneath the Sea’s Dive and Travel Exposition, March 24th, 25th, and 26th, 2006, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey.

In addition to the awards that the Grand Prize winners of each category will receive, there will be prizes for all First, Second and Third place winners.

For information about the contest, call (718) 409-0240. For more about BTS, call 914.664.4310, e-mail info@Beneaththesea.org , or visit our website: http://www.beneaththesea.org.

Source: www.diversalertnetwork.org