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The friendliest Giant Manta Rays in the World are found in Socorro. Max recorded length is 18 feet in length! Graceful, beautiful, friendly, and harmless. No stinger on their tails and they have the largest brain to body mass ratio of any fish in the ocean.
A bucket list experience everyone should have on their minds. .
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Since tomorrow is the #KentuckyDerby, let's talk about #seahorses. Namely, how ironic it is that the slowest fish in the ocean is named after animals so prized for their velocity on land. With their skinny tails and puny fins, seahorses occupy all three bottom spots for slowest fish (the dwarf seahorse, the slowest of all, moves at barely 1.5 meters an HOUR). But even if they're not exactly racking up speeding tickets, seahorses are incredibly perseverant. This lined seahorse has just finished a 200-mile trip from the Eastern Continental Shelf to New York Harbor, where it will spend the season feeding and spawning before returning in the fall. It was filmed by @riverprojectnyc, a marine science field station in TriBeCa which opens up a yearly flow-through aquarium where you can see the vast array of local wildlife living in NYC's waters, as well as tourists like this seahorse (you can tell it is a tourist, because it is moving incredibly slowly).
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How could we destroy this beautiful display of nature?! This is at Darwin Island in the Galapagos. The Chinese fishermen are coming within their 40 mile no fishing limit at night, making a catch, and then head back out to the 40 mile mark. Our Dive Masters said the problem is getting worse and they need help getting the word out. Share this post if you care about saving the sharks and want to help spread the word that the Galapagos is not as safe as we would like to think.
The Navy is not big enough to patrol all of Galapagos. The temptation of fishing the protected grounds is a real threat to the ecosystem. Stop shark finning. Ban shark fin soup and consumption of shark.
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Jellyfish are the oldest multi-organ animals on Earth, first appearing three times as long ago as dinosaurs. And they continue to thrive in #oceans that are increasingly hostile to other marine species (due to #overfishing, #globalwarming, and #acidification). Fun fact: the sensors that tell a #jellyfish which way is up are in its butt. Have a great week! : @victordevalles
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Darwin's Arch in the Galapagos! The Dive Masters said it was the best dive they have seen here since 2006! Hundreds of Hammerhead Sharks in 100+ foot visibility. I am so glad our group was full of amazing Photographers and Videographers. We were able to document this historical moment and one of the best dive sites in the World.
Video by @underwatervideoguide
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Sapphire was tiny and a lightweight (5.35 kg — the lightest pup) when she got to us, but weighed nearly 24 kg when she was released in October, after exactly 100 days.
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"Oceans: Our Blue Planet" is a co-production between #oceanx and @BBCEarth and is the companion to #BluePlanet2. Playing in 3D in Giant Screen theaters around the world, find one near you: www.oceanx.org/oceans-our-blue-planet .
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Underwater Photographer Eldad Cohen gets close and personal with a Hammerhead Shark at Darwin's Arch, Galapagos.
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A 500-million-year-old #fossil has sparked debate in the #science community about whether it is the distant ancestor of this comb jelly. The ancient creature, known as Daihua sanqiong, had 18 arms, each of which featured hundreds of tiny combs, the same things causing the irridescent effect here (moving the combs is how this jellyfish swims). Many people ask if this sparkling is #bioluminescence, but it's one of the exceptions in the (often sparkly) #oceantwilightzone: this is not self-generated light, just a reflection from our camera lights. #oceanx
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