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James Harris Underwater

PADI Scuba Diving instructor and underwater Videographer and Photographer.

A British Scuba Diver offers 4k underwater videography/photography services, edited using the Adobe Pro suite - both commercially and alongside our courses. We also organise and run bespoke scuba expeditions around the world which can be combined with our PADI courses (especially when our students don't want to dive in the colder, UK waters). A British Scuba Diver also provides 1:1, private and gr

oup PADI scuba diving courses in the South West of the UK. These include the full suite of the PADI core programs, as well as a number of specialties. Our team includes an IAHD-Americas 'Adaptive Teaching' disabled diver Instructor who can work with physically disabled students within the PADI programs to fully enjoy diving and work towards their PADI certifications.

19/12/2025

For hours, a handful of mantas and nurse sharks took turns passing beneath our liveaboard’s lights. This was one of the rare moments when both species shared the spotlight.
Are you team shark or team manta? Vote below ⬇️

17/12/2025

This trio of Mantas feasted on zooplankton gathered under our liveaboard's lights one evening. For hours, they barrel fed, repeating a loop-the-loop up and down the water column with mouths open wide.

13/12/2025

Often spending their days resting on a sandy bottom, nurse sharks come alive at night. This one was swimming in midwater, captured just off the back of a Maldives liveaboard. A lively few hours - more to come.

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📷 GH5 and Panasonic 7-14mm in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Backscatter HF-1

02/11/2025

I always love finding shark eggcases while diving, but there’s something special about finding one that’s so new. The creamy white, translucent outer shell and bright yellow embryo look so perfectly fragile.

📷 GH5 and Olympus 60mm in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Backscatter hybrid strobes
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Otter drysuit.

31/10/2025

Chesil cove is one of my favourite dive sites. The large pebbles that make up the bottom means the vis can be pretty epic for a UK beach dive. There’s a super healthy seagrass meadow on the site too which is great for all sorts of marine life, including cuttlefish!

📷 GH5 and Olympus 7-14mm in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Light and Motion Sola flood (3800)
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Mares Avanti fins.

10/07/2025

An epic night dive on a Komodo reef — one of the highlights was this stunning Spanish Dancer. If you’re a fan of nudibranchs, these are a bucket-list species!

📷 GH5 in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Light and Motion Sola flood (3800)
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Mares Avanti fins.

28/06/2025

A spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus) resting on its anemone host, one of many small reef partnerships.

📷 GH5 in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Light and Motion Sola flood (3800)
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Mares Avanti fins.

26/06/2025

This coral is spawning — releasing millions of gametes into the water column in a spectacular underwater bloom. It’s one of the ocean’s most magical events, timed with the moon and tied to the survival of entire reefs. Blink and you’ll miss it. Taken in Komodo, Indonesia.

📷 GH5 in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Light and Motion Sola flood (3800)
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Mares Avanti fins.

23/02/2025

So pleased to be placed in the 2025 Underwater Photographer of the Year lineup. It was my first year entering a competition of this size and to have made it so far feels surreal!

Attending the event in London and seeing the incredible work of the others winners was so incredibly inspiring. If you haven’t already checked out the 2025 yearbook I thoroughly reccomend doing so!

15/11/2023

A bright and beautiful Tassled Scorpionfish in Komodo, Indonesia. Look at that beard!

📷 GH5 and Olympus 60mm in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Light and Motion Sola flood (3800)
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Mares Avanti fins.

21/09/2023

This Long Nosed Hawkfish was doing a very, very good job hiding from me in Komodo. There was quite a swell on this dive and I took tons of other shots where his face was obscured. I was so pleased to catch this one and love the depth of the surrounding coral and how it extends from foreground to background, going in and out of focus.

📷 GH5 and Olympus 60mm in Nauticam housing
🔦 2 x Light and Motion Sola flood (3800)
🤿 Apeks DST/XTX50 regs. WTX-D18 wing and steel backplate single cylinder setup. WTX45 wing and aluminium backplate twins setup. Razor sidemount setup. Shearwater Perdix dive computer. Mares Avanti fins.

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