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".

Despite Annabel Anderson protesting that the life of a pro-paddleboarder, with its constant travel and gruelling workouts, isn't as incredible as it seems, we can't imagine anything much more idyllic than this selfie taken in Wanaka, New Zealand. Anderson (right) is a two-time Standup World Series champion and shared this snap during a rare moment of downtime between year-round paddleboard competitions.

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.

With a decade’s worth of experience as one half of underwater photography team Scuba Diver Girls, free diver Stephanie Adamson knows a thing or two about getting the perfect marine photograph. From hanging out with turtles to taking a quick snap with a shark, this all-girl team is pretty fearless, but we love this up-close shot of a rather surprised looking fish.