James had always wanted to dive and got his first opportunity during a holiday to Kenya in 1999. After those first few breaths underwater, he knew it wouldn't be a once-off experience.

Over the years he worked his way up the ladder until he became a diving professional and could get paid to do what he loved. He has lived in Egypt since 2005 and has worked as a guide and instructor in most areas of the Egyptian Red Sea. He has been fortunate enough to see some amazing sights and experience many wonderful dives.

James took up underwater photography in 2008 and found that it added a whole new dimension to his diving. While he is not quite at the stage where he feels naked diving without a camera, he certainly does miss it.James' work has been published in both diving and photography magazines in the UK and he also edits an online magazine called The Equalizer that covers all things to do with the Red Sea.

You can see more of James' work at www.silentworldimages.co.uk where he hosts galleries of both underwater and land-based photography.

Dray was born in the Netherlands and studied Arts and Photography before teaching Art at high school. In 1997 he did his first dive course and liked it so much that he left Holland to start working professionally in the dive business in 1998. He has since worked and lived in Malaysia, Thailand the Philippines and Egypt.

In 2000 he picked up his first underwater camera and progressed to a DSLR in 2005. Ever since then he has been taking photographs almost every day. Dray has been published in a number of books and has had articles printed in a variety of dive magazines. He has also won a number of international photographic contests.

Dray has published six applications for iTunes about underwater photography and marine life. At the moment he works as a liveaboard guide on the Red Sea in Egypt. His photographs can be viewed at www.drayvanbeeck.com

Johan Boshoff

Johan has dedicated his life to scuba diving and marine life education around all of the world's oceans, and he is always eager to see what the 'Big Blue' has to offer.

After Johan learned to dive and had seen God's wonders under the water, he decided to quit his job and make scuba diving his full-time career. He started diving in the late 1990s and today holds diving qualifications as a Technical Course Director and a Cave and Trimix instructor.

In 2000 he started a diving company called The Dive Spot to accommodate both training and his mission to dive all the dive spots in southern Africa. In 2008 he completed his journey and personally dived all the dive spots featured in his book, The Dive Spots of Southern Africa. In 2010 he completed a Marine Species book to help divers easily identify marine species. While he was on these trips he also developed a computer programme which hosts more than 3 000 photographs for marine lovers and scuba divers to learn more about the spectacular marine life in and around the ocean.

Johan has been involved with a number of underwater television documentaries for local and international filming crews and is also an accomplished underwater photographer. In addition, he is also the editor and publisher of a local diving magazine in southern Africa.Today Johan is still active in the diving industry, providing dive training and operating specialised dive tours. You can see more of Johan's work at www.thedivespot.co.za