“I saw my first ray in Sweden six months ago, but then I unfortunately didn’t have a camera with me. But this time I was really prepared.
At the end of the dive, with some air left in the dive tank, I found myself flying in the world of a starry ray. I tried to adjust my rhythm and speed, and after a while I started to feel like a ray myself” – Göran Ehlmé, Underwater photographer
Sheltered animals face a painful death. At the bottom of Lysekil harbour there are about 60 dogfish and several rays. Dogfish, Klorocka and Knagrocka are classified as highly threatened and endangered. Tobias Dahlin/Deep Sea Reporter's close-up photos show with uncomfortable clarity that several of the sharks are still breathing, but dying.
Join the underwater photographers among plants and animals at a dive in Kosterhavet National Park
It can be difficult to distinguish between the different fish in a large shoal in the sea. But the researchers agree that they are teachable individuals, and that they are fully capable of feeling pain
