ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 3月9日 18時42分

Video by @Thomas Peschak
During the stormy southwest monsoon, reef manta rays travel to a small bay in the northern Maldives called Hanifaru. Upwelling brings nutrients to the surface, turning the water into a rich plankton brew. Microscopic armies of crustaceans (no bigger than your pupil) are the mainstay of a manta’s diet. When plankton concentrations are patchy, manta rays feed singly, somersaulting themselves backward like a dog chasing its tail. However, when plankton densities increase… …they opt for a more collaborative approach. The mantas begin to swim closer together in a unique behavior known as “cyclone feeding”. As they swirl in tight formation, the column creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering plankton right into the mantas cavernous mouths. The experience of free diving and photographing amongst such masses of rays is truly unforgettable. At the end of shooting for almost 3 hours I switched my camera to video mode and turned the camera back onto myself. I rarely get to see what goes on behind me underwater while shooting, so this provided a different and unusual perspective for me. I am not a huge fan of selfies, but if they involve hundreds of manta rays even I will make an exception.
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For more manta videos watch my recent TED talk “Dive into an Ocean Photographers World” at www.ted.com (See link below my Instagram bio at @Thomas Peschak)
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