2026

• My footage of a mating pair of banded guitarfish was published in the Journal of Ichthyology: Bach Muñoz, V. The First Record of Putative Mating Behavior and Early Life Stages of the Banded Guitarfish Zapteryx exasperata (Trygonorrhinidae) in the Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve, Southern California, USA. J. Ichthyol. (2026). Thank you, Victor. [Link to the article]
• My footage of swell sharks from Scripps Canyon was featured in Discovery Channel – Shark Week: Untamed America .
• Monterey Shootout
  • First place – Video Montage category
  • First place – Social Media category

2025

• My short film Epic Run: A Ritual in the Abyss was selected for the following film festivals:
  • The 26th San Diego Undersea Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA)
  • Houston Underwater Film Festival 2026 (Houston, TX, USA)
  • San Sebastian International Underwater Film Festival (Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain)
  • SEA Film Festival (La Spezia, Italy)
• Monterey Shootout – First place in the Video Montage category.
• My short film Spring Arrives was selected for the Houston Underwater Film Festival 2025 and received First Place in the Feature Length category (Houston, TX, USA).

2024

• I was selected as a 2024 Atlantis ImageMaker and spent one week at Atlantis Dive Resorts and Liveaboards in Dumaguete, Philippines.
• My short film Spring Arrives was selected for The 25th San Diego Undersea Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA).

2023

• My short animated film The White Whale was selected for the following film festivals:
  • The 24th San Diego Undersea Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA)
  • Houston Underwater Film Festival 2023 – Judges’ Top 10 Picks (Houston, TX, USA)
  • Underwater LOVE Film Festival 2023 (Venice, Italy)
  • San Sebastian International Underwater Film Festival 2023 (San Sebastián, Spain)
  • SEA Film Festival 2023 (La Spezia, Italy)
  • Palm Springs Animation Festival (Palm Springs, CA, USA)
  • Neum Underwater Film Festival – Semi-finalist (Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Australia Animation Film Festival – Semi-finalist (Newtown, NSW, Australia)

2022

• My short film Tunicates and the Worm was selected for the 23rd San Diego Undersea Film Festival.

2021

• One of my photographs was featured in Fodor’s Travel Guide .
• My short film My Scuba Diving in the Pandemic Year was selected for the 22nd San Diego Undersea Film Festival.

2019

• My photographs were featured on the poster for the San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition.
• My short film The Magic Shores was selected for the San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition and was voted the audience’s #1 film of the entire show.
• Monterey Shootout – Third place in the Video Montage category.
• My underwater photography at La Jolla Shores was featured by CBS 8 San Diego .

2018

• Blue Water So-Cal Shootout – Second place in both the Edited Video and Unedited Video categories.

2015

• My photographs were featured by Dr. Bill in his blog series Dive Dry with Dr. Bill.

2014

• My wildlife photography and I were featured in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar .