Salam all,
As you all may already know, I am so in love with the sea, sun, beach, island, nature and animals...
So I would like to share some amazing photos and information about them here from time to time...
Today's photo is photographed by Florian Schulz.
It is of thousands of Munk's devil rays migrating.
Location: Sea of Cortez off Mexico's Baja California
The aerial image won top honors and the "Underwater World" category in the 2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year awards.
German photographer Florian Schulz said the scope of the ray congregations was unknown until he and a pilot happened upon the gathering while searching for migrating whales. Perhaps just as rare is the composition Schulz captured. "I was able to show how these rays are jumping out of the water," he said, "and at the same time I'm able to show almost like an underwater photograph how there're layers and layers and layers of rays."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists Munk's devil rays as near threatened, due in part to their vulnerability to gill nets (hard-to-see-netting). Given ray gatherings like the one pictured you could imagine a single net could take thousands and thousands.
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