ST. PETERSBURG ― The tram was halted as a small, slithery black snake scurried across the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve trail. “I’ve been out here for the last year, pretty much every week,” Nancy Norton, ...

The Underwater Photographer of the Year contest highlights compelling underwater images of wrecked ships and planes.

The winning image, shot with a fish-eye lens from a a rocky shelf on the Lake Michigan shore, topped a record 770-plus entries in the annual contest.