Underwater portraits: the angry seahorse and the dying tuna

1'Eyes'. Macro photo of a group of unicorn shrimp. Keigo Kawamura UPY2020

2'Frozen mobile home '. A group of seals swim on the hidden face of a drifting iceberg on the Antarctic Peninsula. GREG LECOEUR UPY2020

3'Octopus training '. After a free diving session, the photographer spotted a ball floating in the sea, approached and discovered this octopus under the ball. He had time to shoot a few times until the octopus released the ball and returned to the sea floor. Pasquale Vassallo UPY2020

4'Eagle striped constellation '. A group of eagle rays swimming in the Maldives. Henley Spiers UPY2020

5'Tell me '. The photographer captured this detail of a whale and the bubbles it produces when breathing during a free diving session in Tonga. Paolo Isgro UPY2020

6'Anemone of fireworks and sun rays'. Double exposure with superimposition of images, on the one hand the glare of the sun and on the other the specimen of this species of anemone that the photographer found in the waters of Loch Duich (Scotland) at a depth of 15 meters. Trevor Rees UPY2020

7 'Angry seahorse'. The photographer came face to face with this specimen in the estuary of the Eastern Scheldt, the Netherlands. Rooman Luc UPY2020

8'Last dawn, last breath. ' Tuna caught in a net. Pasquale Vassallo UPY2020

9'Elegant elegans'. A specimen of Okenia elegans crawling along the edge of a seaweed. Dan Bolt UPY2020

10 'Blue shark in motion'.
Fearsome? Insurance?
The blue shark or blue shark (Prionace glauca) is a pelagic fish of around 2.5 meters long and weighing approximately 80 kilos. He wanders the oceans eating sardines, seabirds and, above all, squid, his favorite dish. His eyes are large and dark, like a metaphor for loneliness, and his teeth are tall, narrow, curved, and saw-shaped, just like what they are: his only weapon in the vast ocean. Everything is finished off by a pointed nose that confirms a scary image scarce or null justified. The dry cleaner seems aggressive, yes, but she is not at all. It is very strange that it attacks the human being and if it does it it is by mistake or fear. We are, in this order, facing a key marine animal in the preservation of the food chain, an endangered creature and one of the favorite prey of shark fishermen, who kill around 100 million specimens worldwide each year. . The blue shark is a cosmopolitan species: specimens can be found in all oceans. The one in the picture was sighted southeast of the British coast. The photograph became one of the finalists in the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2020 contest. Henley Spiers UPY2020