he Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray Taeniura lymma is also known as the bluespotted ray, bluespotted fantail ray, bluespotted stingray and ribbontail stingray....
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0 36bluespotted ribbon tail ray (Taeniura lymma) flutters along the sandy bottom of the Red Sea in Ras Muhammad National Park. At night, small groups...
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0 188The eye of a bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), reflects light from the underwater camera strobes, appearing as though it is glowing inside...
Renee Blundon
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0 39nderwater photographer, Alan Sutton, is dwarfed in size alongside a giant Dwarfed whale shark in Kilondoni Bay of Mafia Island’s West...
Alan Sutton
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0 26A feeding frenzy of black-tipped sharks in South Africa’s Aliwal Shoal. The chilly waters were chummed for cage diving. See additional photos...
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0 176Headshot of a whale shark (Rhincodon typus), photographed while snorkeling off the coast of Mafia Island in Tanzania. Whale sharks are the biggest sharks and the biggest fish in the world...
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0 33 giant oceanic manta ray (Manta birostris), photographed while scuba diving in the pristine waters off the coast of Tofo, Mozambique. This...
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0 38 bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) photographed while scuba diving at Sweet Bongoyo off the coast of Dar es Salaam. This...
Eric Beaume
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0 23A whale shark feeding on microscopic planktons off the coast of Mafia Island. It's hard to believe that a fish can grow this large without eating other large fish...
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0 17A snorkeler "tailing" an ambiguous whale shark off the coast of Mafia Island in Tanzania. The whale shark's tail is about as long as the height of a person, with the overall...
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0 21A whale shark mafia, also known as the “gentile giant” of the sea, due to it’s massive size and indifference...
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1 99Renee Blundon swims alongside an elusive whale shark while filming. Photo taken in Kilondoni Bay, off the coast of Mafia...
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0 65A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) coasts along Tanzanian waters with a large school of golden trevallies (Gnathanodon speciosus). Golden travallies often congregate whale sharks...
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0 213erhaps the first known recorded sighting of a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) off the coast of Mafia Island, was during...
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0 35 massive whale shark (Rhincodon typus), photographed off the coast of Mafia Island. In her post Free-Diving with Whale Sharks, Renee Blundon writes, “The...
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0 24enee Blundon free-dives while filming an elusive whale shark, the biggest fish in the world, off the coast of Mafia Island....
ideo of a cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii) and a bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) during a night dive at Remora in...
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0 50ays and skates are in the superorder of cartilaginous fish, known as Batoidea, where there are approximately 560 species in...
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0 32Inside a cave and face to face with a ragged tooth shark of Aliwal Shoal in South Africa. Although quite...
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1 174 ace to face, in depths quite deep, we stare squarely into the other’s eyes, It is there where we see everything,...
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0 53Inside a Raggie Cave with a ragged tooth shark in Aliwal Shoal, South Africa. Canon 7D Ikelite 7D Housing Twin...
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0 35An oceanic whitetip reef shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), photographed in Durban, South Africa. The Saber Squirrelfish is not as common as...
Renee Blundon
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0 41harks are a group of fish which have a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of...
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0 21Face to face with a feeding hunting blacktip shark, Renee Blundon captures this action shot as the massive fish torpedos to the...
Blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) are 0ne of the ocean’s most fascinating predators and are found worldwide in tropical waters. With...
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0 86A spotted ragged-tooth shark in South Africa’s Aliwal Shoal, a mating ground for raggies from June to November. Despite their size, imposing...