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While we're waiting on photos, could someone enlighten me? What's a good camera for use on and around the water?

You mean video camera or photocamera?
For videocamera get this: GoPro Camera 3
For photocamera get one out of the Olympus SW series.

I have got both and am very with them.

A commonly sold waterproof camera is the ATC2000 but the quality is nowhere near that of the GoPro3.
Its also very waterproof, I recorded a pretty deep nosedive with the GoPro3 (frontbeam completely submerged) which I will post someday.