Our collection of amazing underwater

Rajan the snorkelling elephant. Photograph: Jeff Yonover


A scuba diver carries the Olympic flame underwater at the Great Barrier Reef prior to the Sydney Games.


Vanuatu underwater post office.


A pygmy hippopotamus at Melbourne Zoo.


Polar bears at Sea World.


The Biggest Loser trainer Shannan Ponton and model Jamie Wright during an underwater shoot for Cosmopolitan. Photograph: Stephen Cooper


Awwww cute... A baby hippopotamus takes a swim around her new home minutes after being born underwater in Florida.
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Ashrita Furman of Japan breaks the world record for underwater hula-hooping.


Odin the white Bengal Tiger who likes to swim for his supper. Photograph: Jeff Rayner


A tiger swims with a handler at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) in South Carolina.


A couple kisse each other during the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione.


Newleyweds dance during an underwater wedding ceremony.


Chinese children gather to watch an underwater performance by Russian syncronised swimmers at an aquarium in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian province.


The 'sQuba' motor car, built by Swiss specialist car maker Rinspeed, which the company claims is the world's first real submersible car.


Swimmer Ian Thorpe being interviewed underwater by presenter Andrew Denton.


Seventy-four scuba divers hit the pool to set the world record for an underwater dance class.


A daredevil gets up close and personal with Choppa the 5.5m crocodile at Darwin's Crocosaurus Cove. Photograph: Clive Hyde


A polar bear cub at Sea World. Photograph: Geoff Mclachlan


Baby swimming lessons. Photograph: Getty ble Rings


Beluga whales release "Happy Bub" as they perform in Japan.