Compared to the sky, the seas seem to be more mysterious. In Qingdao, Zhang Quanxi, an unmanned aerial vehicle operator, is also a diving tarento. In over three years, he not only has overcome aquaphobia but also become fascinated with photography under the sea. Zhang Quanxi takes the underwater camera to “fly” under the seas of different countries and brings us the most shocking videos.

    Diving fills his life up with sunshine

    Zhang Quanxi is a hardworking youth born after the 1980s and the company he has created with a few friends are well-run. However high-intensive work caused him strong mental impact. The sudden frustration in his career made him affected with serious depression. At that time he was even at the verge of extreme danger. He cannot slowly walk out of the mental fog until he becomes attached with diving later. Zhang Quanxi said: “I used to have serious aquaphobia but I want to beat all I fear most.” By chance he met Wang Di, his mentor and started learning diving. Wang Di is an experienced professional diving coach. Under his guidance, Zhang Quanxi cannot stop diving and they also became life partners under the sea.

    “It feels so awesome under the water. It is a brand new and mysterious world. Under the water I can fly as birds do. I am enchanted.” Zhang Quanxi fell in deep love with diving. His diving level is getting higher and higher and soon he has been qualified as a professional diver. So far his life is filled up with sunshine and more and more healthy mental state.

    Keep advancing and start filming the undersea world

    In 2014, Zhang Quanxi and Wang Di came to the Philippines for diving. After they just dived for 4 to 5 meters, they came across a whale shark with the length of 7 to 8 meters. The shark swam gracefully around the divers. Zhang Quanxi was fond as well as afraid of this beautiful giant creature. When he wanted to take the pictures, the shark had gone away. This wonderful experience gave Zhang Quanxi a brand new idea that he wanted to record all the scenes since there are so many astounding things and beautiful sceneries under the sea. Therefore he started photography under the sea. Because of the strong shielding effect of seawater to sunshine plus water refraction, it is very difficult for ordinary cameras to genuinely restore the original scenery color in deep water. To solve this, Zhang Quanxi spent over 100,000 Yuan purchasing professional shooting equipment and upgrades his equipment on a continuous basis. From then on, he walks on the path of underwater photography and has shot a lot underwater documentaries.

    “I really want to share this beautiful sea world to the people besides me and show to all who have never seen the undersea world.” Zhang Quanxi said that he felt very privileged to frequently have activities under the sea while the majority of people rarely have the access to the undersea world.

    Feel the historic vicissitude by filming shipwrecks

    It is exciting to find and film large fishes and creatures while encountering shipwrecks can make people meditate. In the process of diving, Zhang Quanxi came across many shipwrecks but the most impressive one is the Japanese warship sunken by America’s bombs during the Second World War. The warship’s shape remains intact while other ordinary merchant ships are already battered. “We can genuinely feel three dimensions of the world while encountering shipwrecks can lead us to the 4th dimension namely the time.” According to Wang Di, Zhang Quanxi also totally agrees on this point of view. When seeing the mottled and rusted shipwrecks and the previous human civilization sunken into the sea, we can fill our mind with a myriad of thoughts and ideas. After returning to the shore, both of them don’t speak and come back to normal life after meditation for a long time. Such experience gives these two partners keener love to shipwrecks filming. Therefore they plan to launch a documentary on shipwrecks.

    So far, Zhang Quanxi and his partner Wang Di have been to dozens of countries and regions. They plan to march on the road of diving, explore more unknown places and film more documentaries.

    (1. Diving through an undersea cave in Thailand. 2. The artificial reconstruction in Phuke Island to protect fishes under the sea. 3. Zhang Quanxi (The photos listed in this edition are provided by Zhang Quanxi.)