Dive Rite is excited to announce our second annual photo competition. We aim to connect the Dive Rite community by sharing images of everyday divers pursuing their passion; exploring, researching or simply enjoying the underwater realm. The best shots will feature on our website and the print catalog and winners in each category will receive these fabulous prizes!

1st Prize - $1000 of Dive Rite gear (US retail)

2nd Prize - $500 of Dive Rite gear (US retail)

3rd Prize - $250 of Dive Rite gear (US retail)

Submission Timeframe

Deadline for submitting entries is August 31st 2008.

If you miss the deadline but would like to submit your photos to Dive Rite for consideration and use on the DiveRite.com web site please contact us at photos@diverite.com

How to Submit Photos

Please send a 1MB JPG file or the URL for web-hosted submissions to: photos@diverite.com Make sure you include a description with your photos (who, what, where, when).

Rules and Guidelines

• Entrants retain ownership and all other rights to future use of their photographs.

• Photos will be used on the Dive Rite website and in the print catalog ONLY. If we desire to use the image in any additional manner we will contact you for your express permission.

• Entries must be your own work and a model release must be obtained (if appropriate).

• Some digital manipulation is fine but this is not a competition in Photoshop use and original photography is preferred.

• We reserve the right to crop the images as we see fit.

• We reserve the right not to award some or all of the prizes if the quality of the entries falls below the required standard.

Themes

Gnarly Dive

Show us your gnarliest dive. We want to see images of divers in gritty situations, demonstrating the skill, mindset and preparation that is inherent in advanced/technical dives. Divers decompressing, entering wrecks, squeezing through a cave restriction or ice diving are all desirable.

Wildlife Interaction

Ever come face to face with a mola mola, a hammerhead shark or a school of baitfish? We want to see images of divers interacting with marine wildlife, depicting the awe-inspiring opportunity divers have to get up close and personal with the underwater realm. NOTE: Respect for marine wildlife is of the utmost importance and we will not consider any photo of divers harassing or touching marine wildlife.

Lifestyle

A dive does not begin and end in the water. Training, gear configuration, boat prep, tank hauling and dive site prep and break down, plus a well-deserved meal or siesta at the end of a long day are all part of the diver lifestyle. Camaraderie and a common spirit brings us all together. We want to see this spirit and lifestyle depicted above water, at the dock, on the boat, lowering tanks into a cenote or sharing a cerveza at the end of a long dive day.

Style Guidelines

We are looking for images of divers in action in a variety of underwater environments. Natural, authentic moments showing divers engaged in activity are preferred over staged and posed photographs. Pictures of divers staring into the camera in a posed fashion are not desired.

As a manufacturer and seller of technical SCUBA diving gear we are naturally interested in photographs of divers that include Dive Rite gear. We are also realistic and know that divers often configure their gear from a variety of manufacturers. Tight photos of divers and little else in the image would not be useful if all the gear or the main gear elements (regulator, harness/wing, rebreather, etc.) are a non-Dive Rite product. On the other hand it is not necessary that the subject of the photo look like a Dive Rite billboard. Ideally we don’t want the dive gear to be obvious and if it is obvious, it should be obviously Dive Rite.