Three Australian cave divers have taken out third place in the Dive Rite Photo Competition 2012:

• Luke Baade | Photo: a cave diver exits through a curtain of sunrays in Mexico's Chac Mool Cenote
• Liz Rogers | Photo: divers in Tank Cave on their way home 250m from the entrance stop for a quick chat in an air pocket of exhaled bubbles
• Neil Vincent | Photo: diver Lyn Vincent enters Fossil Cave, a small and silty cave that revealed complete skeletons of extinct mammals

The winning photos: