1350-6261 - A common mediterranean jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) feasting on another mediterranean jellyfish (Neoturris pileata), rarely seen in shallow waters. This picture was taken during special event occurred on April 2019 in the Strait of Messina, when special conditions of weather, sea currents and moon phases brought close to surface a lot of pelagic subjects, including a few usually living very deep.
1350-6260 - A diver watches in awe a dense soup of tunicates aggregated by very special sea conditions. This picture was taken during a special event occurred on April 2019 in the Strait of Messina, when special conditions of weather, sea currents and moon phases brought close to surface a lot of pelagic subjects, including a few usually living very deep.
860-290381 - Zooplankton. Pelagic micro organism that is part of plankton (unidentified species). It lives dragged by the marine currents and it is common to observe it in spring. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands.
860-290382 - Zooplankton. Pelagic micro organism that is part of plankton (unidentified species). It lives dragged by the marine currents and it is common to observe it in spring. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands.
1116-49714 - This larval stage of a long arm octopus, Octopus sp. is no more that five inches across (as pictured) and was photographed at night in midwater several miles off the Kona Coast during a blackwater dive, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States of America
860-287998 - (Clione limacina), known as the naked sea butterfly, sea angel is a pelagic sea slug, only few centimeters in length, swim in front of an iceberg, Tasiilaq, East Greenland
1116-39720 - This male Ring-tailed Cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus aureus) is protecting and incubating it's eggs by carrying them in his mouth, Philippines
906-3 - Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) leaping alongside boat, although the most abundant dolphin species in pelagic waters of the Mediterranean Sea the population is listed as vulnerable, North Aegean Sea, Greece. (RR)
979-1284 - Blue Sharks (Prionace glauca) massing in deep water around shark diver Bob Cranston. San Clementa Island, California, USA. Pacific Ocean. Model released.
979-1832 - Three Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) in flight during mating season over Isla San Pedro Martir in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico.
979-2067 - Pelagic crab (Pleuroncodes planipes) caught in glass with curious boy off the Baja Peninsula, Mexico. This crab is often called the red tuna crab.
817-105025 - Black jacks, blue runners and chubs, Caranx lugubris, Carangoides crysos and Kyphosus sectatrix, schooling in open water, St, Peter and St, Paul's rocks, Brazil, Atlantic Ocean