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This has been discussed on the forum many times. IMHO the key to getting decent shots underwater is to have a camera that is easy to shoot in manual, and to have at least one strobe. This is so that you can select a fast shutter speed to eliminate ambient light and light your subject with a strobe. I had a SeaLife as my first underwater camera and would not recommend it. Go Pros may be nice toys above water but you can't attach a strobe to them. (If you try to shoot in automatic mode, your camera will meter for ambient light and choose a slow shutter and wide open aperture and you will get no-where fast).
Why didn't you like SeaLife?
 
This is great, totally agreed! Shops and payed reviewers are pushing 10k$+ FF setups (heard about the A7rII fewer?) while 99% of the people have issues in the 3 main departments here...
Without seeing the diagram, I feel I went to the right direction, when I "downgraded" from e-pl5 to the rx100IV P&S . Actually big sensor is also a significant disadvantage once shooting wide behind an image-curving dome...

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