36 North

The Carolina Flare captures the entirety of the 36North lifestyle in a single image. Cutting through the ocean, this ship encompasses the escape from normal life into your perfect latitude. It's the spirit of the ocean getaway, a chance to step back and look at the world through a different lens, and see everything beautiful that surrounds you. Sailing through the ocean, chasing down the next amazing shot in the form of underwater photography, or just spending time with friends, the Carolina Flare is a beautiful reminder of that next adventure that's waiting just around the corner.

The striped marlin cuts in for the kill as it snags its prey out of the water at breakneck speeds. Populating mostly tropical waters, the striped marlin, or Tetrapturus audax, is one of the most efficient hunters of the ocean. In an almost impossible piece of photography, Marc Montocchio has managed to capture this spectacular underwater hunter in the fraction of a second between slicing through the water and snatching its meal. This beautiful creature was photographed at Baja, California in Mexico's Pacific Ocean, and is now being delivered to your home in any of variety of medias.

This solitary Coleman Shrimp, or Periclimenes Colemani, is a rare capture for any form of underwater photography. The Coleman Shrimp is nestling itself amongst the toxic spears of the Fire Urchin, or Asthenosoma. These shrimp are almost always found in pairs, building a home together in the security of their poisonous home. However, here in the Banda Sea in Indonesia, or the greater South Pacific, this lonely Coleman Shrimp is making his home alone, safe from predators in an image that captures all the beauty that surrounds such a dangerous and inhospitable place of comfort.

In this uniquely designed photograph, you're given the opportunity to see the exact moment an Atlantic blue marlin, or Makaira nigricans, closes in at incredible speed and captures its prey. Each image captured in a period of just one second, you will never be given a better opportunity to view one of the oceans most spectacular hunters as it zeros in and claims its prey. This piece of underwater photography by Marc Montocchio is one of the 36North team's proudest moments. To capture a moment like this is a once in a lifetime experience, and now it is available on any of our prints and sizes for you to take with you wherever you go.