Judging the "Through Your Lens" photo contest is always an exciting time of year at Scuba Diving magazine, but it can also be very tough. Each year proves more and more difficult for narrowing down the overall category winners. We absolutely love looking through your underwater images and want to highlight additional photographers that stood out. Check out the gallery below for six awesome photographs of animal behavior that were submitted during the 2016 contest.

Enter your images in the 2017 Through Your Lens photo contest by May 31, 2017. You can enter a total of up to five images for free and the best part is, winners walk away with some pretty amazing prizes. This year there are FIVE different liveaboard trips up for grabs, courtesy of Aggressor Fleet.

Learn more about the image categories and prizes here.

This odd couple was caught in a fantastic dipping embrace at midnight — two seahorses of two different breeds embracing.

This channel cling crab in a small salty pond in the Bahamas gave me a display of its best defensive strategy.

During a night dive in Palau, I felt something moving under me. When I spotted with my light, I saw a cuttlefish hunting a crab with its tentacles.

During the migration of the sardines along the coast of South Africa, Cape gannets shot straight down, piercing the surface of the sea. Greg Lecoeur took third place in the wide-angle category of the 2016 Through Your Lens photo contest with this image.

Cocos island is simply an amazing place where you can find yourself in the middle of a gigantic school of fish.

Toads mate in the shallow areas of a lake in Turnhout, Belgium between the months of March and April.