“Their populations are declining worldwide,” said Jessica Pate, a senior scientist at the Marine Megafauna Foundation. The slow-swimming, migratory fish are listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act and as endangered on the IUCN Red List. Giant manta rays are the world’s largest rays and can grow to a wingspan of up to 29 feet. He didn’t know the surfer in the photo, but they’ve talked since the photo went viral. His daughter and her boyfriend are both marine biologists and said they’d seen some manta rays in the water after he took the photo, Escandell said.Įscandell owns an auto repair shop and lives in nearby Satellite Beach, and said he enjoys taking pictures at the beach fairly regularly. “It could have been a fish, could have been anything.”Įscandell had taken a burst of photos that showed the ray breaching out of the water. “I kind of saw a splash behind the surfer, but didn’t think much of it,” he said. Just ask Rusty Escandell, a lucky photographer who captured an epic photobomb when a giant manta ray leaped out of the water as he was taking pictures of surfers off Satellite Beach.Įscandell said he took the photograph on March 14, while spending the day with family and friends at a beach near Officers Club Beach at Patrick Space Force Base, but he didn’t realize it until he got home.
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Out of the water at the same time the picture was being taken. On MaCBS Miami reported on a giant manta ray photobombing a Florida Surfer by jumping
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