Nigel Marsh

Nigel Marsh is a freelance Australian underwater photographer and photojournalist based in Brisbane. His work has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and books, both in Australia and overseas. Nigel has dived extensively around Australia, especially the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, and his travels have taken him throughout Asia, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean. His underwater photographs have also won a number of international photographic competitions.

Nigel’s passion for diving and the marine environment evolved from an early age while snorkelling the beaches off his hometown of Sydney, Australia. Learning to scuba dive in 1983 served to increase his interest in marine life. Nigel was soon sharing his experiences with others, presenting slide shows and writing articles for magazines, his first article published in 1983. Nigel has since produced thousands of articles for diving, travel and inflight magazines around the world, focusing on his favourite subjects – fishes, diving, sharks, shipwrecks, marine life and travel.

Nigel has also co-authored two diving guide books with Neville Coleman, Dive Sites of the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea (New Holland 1996) and Diving Australia (Periplus Editions 1997). He has also self-published a book – HMAS Brisbane Queensland Coral Warship (Nigel Marsh Photography 2011). Over the last ten years Nigel has been busy working on a series of children’s books on marine related subjects (A to Z of Sharks & Rays, Exploring Shipwrecks, Crabs & Crustaceans, Weird and Wacky Fish) and a series of dive guides and marine life books (Coral Wonderland, Muck Diving, Underwater Australia, Diving With Sharks, Close Encounters With Marine Life) for New Holland Publishers.