These ladies made a huge splash by pole dancing under water.

Photographer Brett Stanley captured amazing images of performers, who held their breath and struck seductive poses on a pole in a New Zealand pool.

“Some of these dancers couldn’t even swim, but they wanted to do the shoot so badly that they didn’t care, I’m truly in awe of these guys!” Stanley told Caters News Agency.

Stanley’s specialty is underwater photography and he said one performer put him to shame: “One of the dancers could hold her breath for so long I had to come up for breath several times to her one.”

Stanley said he was blown away by the dancers’ performance in a totally new setting.

“Pole dancers rely on gravity to get themselves into a lot of the poses, it holds them on the pole and makes them stretch out,” he said. “Under the water this wasn’t possible as they would float, so we had to rethink the poses in the new environment.”