Do Not Mess With Fish 131

and you thought fish were fun! free diver Gary Larter did when he entered the world of Mobula rays off the coast of Mexico in Baja California, Gary could only keep up with the fish for a minute before they left him trailing and disappeared, but that was long enough for photographer Rory Moore to film the ghost-like rays,

Rory filmed them from a platform on the British marine research vessel La Cueca, which sailed from Los Angeles in January when he launched Expedition Oceanus - a project documenting and photographing underwater life, next month the team will embark on a 3,000-mile crossing of the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia and plan to return to the UK with their research,

keeping to a fishy theme this bait ball was spotted at West Palm Beach, Because of the sheer volume of fish contained in the bait ball the different species of shark put aside their traditional rivalry for food and concentrate on one thing only: their fish dinner, this giant shoal of fish called a bait ball is being devoured by voracious hammerheads, tiger sharks, bull sharks, spinner sharks and black tipped reef shark, shark expert and conservationist Jim Abernethy, 52, from Florida took a number of shots,

he commented that, 'the bait ball was travelling south, down the coast from North Florida to Palm Beach, and it is here at the most eastern point of Florida state that the cold Atlantic waters hit the warm water of the Gulf Stream, these bait balls attract everything, we estimate that seven to ten thousand sharks are in the area, unfortunately it's only possible to catch a small sample of this massive group of sharks in the pictures,' I certainly hope the half-boat half-plane contraption he flies, The Overseer has a reliable motor, I mean ditching near the bait ball with all of those sharks, it does not bear thinking about!