Dive Into Marine Drama Around the World with This Year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalists

While rays live alone for most of the year, they gather during breeding or migration into groups known as fevers, which number in the hundreds and sometimes thousands. Mobula rays, like those captured in an aerial view by Laura Leusko off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, demonstrate a timeless behavior while reminding us that industrial fishing and pollution continue to take a toll on marine wildlife globally.

Ocean Photographer of the Year (previously) highlights what makes our planet’s largest bodies of water so spectacular—and so critically in need of protection. More

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