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Deep Blue Sea: Winning Underwater Photographs
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | January 24, 2019 09:22am
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Credit: Duncan Murrell, Ocean Art 2018
A Spiral of Rays
This trio of spinetail devil rays (Mobula japonica) is the Best in Show winner in the 2018 Ocean Art underwater photography competition held by Underwater Photography Guide. It's also a peek into an utterly mysterious world. Very little is known about the behavior of spinetail devil rays, which can have wingspans extending up to 6.8 feet (2.1 m). But in this award-winning photograph, photographer Duncan Murrell captured two males competing for the attention of a female in Honda Bay, off Palawan in the Philippines. The photo also won first place in the Marine Life Behavior category of the 2018 Ocean Art underwater photography competition. [Read more about the underwater photo contest winners]
More:
https://www.livescience.com/64576-winning-underwater-photographs.html
