12 November 2011

Spectacular: thousands of rays swimming through ocean in tight formation

Title: Flight of the Rays
Photographer: Florian Schulz (German conservation photographer)
Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico
Award: this photo won him the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 awards

During an aerial expedition I came across something I had never seen before. Not even my pilot, who has surveyed this area for 20 years, had seen anything like it. As we got closer we started to discover its nature: an unprecedented congregation of rays. The group was as thick as it was wide, all heading towards the same direction. I have asked around why this took place but no one has been able to explain it to me. After such a unique sighting, I realise there are so many marvels in the oceans that we are yet to understand. Our knowledge of the oceans is so limited. I just hope that we are in time to rescue it before it collapses from pollution and over fishing.


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