Todd Essick: Underwater Beauty

Considering all the attention that stingray murder has gotten in the press lately, we admit that we felt a little uneasy looking at these photos of leggy babes frolicking with those monsters under the waves. (We guess they're a little more friendly to naked girls than they are to crocodile hunters.) Still, we couldn't help but be impressed by such beautiful underwater portraits of women and their ocean friends—and the shots of peaceful dolphins did put us more at ease. We can't keep our heads under for more than about ten seconds without coming up for air, so you just know these ladies have tremendous lungs. Who needs the Little Mermaid?

· Todd Essick Photographs (essickphoto.com, via sexoteric.com)

Previously: Paradise TV Bathing Report, Underwater Perception, Scuba Sex, Aqua Visions, Women Underwater, Rub Aqua Girl, Aquafan, Sex Underwater