Virtual diving: Catlin Seaview Survey's underwater panorama – in pictures

Catlin Seaview Survey divers meet at 'Substation Curacao' in the Caribbean Sea Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Survey photographer on Lighthouse Reef in Belize Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Healthy reefs attract many reef fish Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

An eagle-ray on Lighthouse Reef, Belize Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

The survey team captures another panoramic reefscape in Belize Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Belize reefscape panorama Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

A panorama of a reefscape in Bonaire, a Caribbean island that, with the uninhabited islet of Klein Bonaire nestled in its western crescent, forms a special municipality of the Netherlands Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Another Bonaire panorama Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Divers survey a coral wasteland in Bonaire Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Rubble on an unhealthy reef patch in Curacao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

An unhealthy reef area in Bonaire Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

A survey photographer taking pictures next to a 'Tarpon bridge' Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Marine biologist Anjani drives the SVII past 'Tarpon bridge' as part of the Catlin Seaview Survey Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Divers take pictures of reef near the Antilla shipwreck site in Aruba. SS Antilla was a German cargo ship that was launched in 1939 and scuttled in 1940 Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

Corals growing on the Antilla wreck in Aruba Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

The SVII-S camera deep inside Belize's famous Blue Hole Photograph: Catlin Seaview Survey

The Blue Hole, Belize, an iconic dive site surveyed by the Catlin Seaview Survey team Photograph: Belize Tourism/Catlin Seaview Survey

A healthy Curacao reefscape attracts a school of yellow goatfish (Mulloidichthys martinicus). Also seen are the purple stove-pipe sponge (Aplysina archeri) and a pair of blackbar soldierfish (Myripristis jacobus) Photograph: Barry B. Brown/Courtesy of Coral Reef Photos/Catlin Seaview Survey

A green moray Eel photographed at the uninhabited Klein Curacao island Photograph: Barry B. Brown/Courtesy of Coral Reef Photos/Catlin Seaview Survey