Top 15 selfies at sea

Whether taking a luxury yacht charter or participating in some seriously extreme water sports, sharing your nautical adventures with your social media followers can be hard to resist. Click through our round-up of the best selfies at sea for a little inspiration for your next marine voyage.

Usain Bolt

Olympic athlete Usain Bolt took some time off from his gold medal-winning ways to take this great selfie - which he wittily captioned '#squadgoals' - with a group of sharks while on vacation in the French Polynesian destination of Bora Bora. While Bolt didn't brave taking a shot with the sharks while actually in the water, the 306,000 likes this snap received on Instagram are more than enough to make it into our pick of the best selfies at sea.

She may spend most of her life above the waves as a professional windsurfer but, like most people with a passion for water sports, Amanda Beenen also has a great love for the action going on underwater too. Her love for marine life is evident is this amazing snap taken in Hawaii which she captioned "Photobombed by a Honu - Hope everyone is having a Aloha kind of weekend".

American pro-kitesurfer Reo Stevens' Instagram feed is stuffed full of incredible selfies taken from his many sea bound adventures but it is the daring angle of this shot - snapped just as a wave is about to come crashing down - that made it stand out.

As his Instagram handle @goprohobbit suggests, professional kiteboarder Wes Matweyew is almost as skilled with a top underwater camera as he is with a kiteboard. Shot at Long Bay Beach in Turks and Caicos, the angle, scenery and Matweyew's hilarious pout earned this image a place on our list.

Brazilian photographer Thiago Correa has made quite a name for himself thanks to his incredible underwater selfies. Currently boasting 375,000 followers on Instagram, he has been posting these extreme shots since 2012 but our prize for the best goes to this amazing group shot which (understandably) went viral when it first hit the Internet. The jury is still out as to whether or not the image has been Photoshopped but - even if it is - we still give it top marks for creativity.