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Large manta ray photobombs surfer at Florida beach
UPI ^ | MARCH 17, 2021 / 1:37 PM | By Ben Hooper

Posted on 03/17/2021 12:25:50 PM PDT by Red Badger

March 17 (UPI) -- A photographer taking pictures of a surfer at a Florida beach captured a rare shot when the man was photobombed by a wave-jumping manta ray.

Rusty Escandell said he was visiting the beach near Patrick Space Force Base in Satellite Beach with his son when he decided to take some photos of a surfer out on the water.

"To be frank with you, I was actually focusing on the surfer. I was doing a burst, catching several frames, and it wasn't until I got home and I was reviewing the pictures that I actually saw what was happening in the background," Escandell told WKMG-TV.

The photo captured a manta ray jumping out of a wave behind the surfer.

Escandell told WTXF-TV he estimated the ray was at least 8-feet long, "but probably bigger."

VIDEO AT LINK......................

https://youtu.be/xPpVcxU6LIk


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Sports; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: florida; mantaray
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To: entropy12
So why is histerectomy

It's hysterectomy. Originally intended to treat hysteria in emotional females.

41 posted on 03/17/2021 1:47:47 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: DannyTN

Ones a fish the others a car


42 posted on 03/17/2021 1:50:47 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: Red Badger

Story is without the details on the board the manta was using...


43 posted on 03/17/2021 1:53:39 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: suthener

Mexico Beach was my favorite beach...sigh


44 posted on 03/17/2021 1:58:32 PM PDT by BamaBelle
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To: BamaBelle

“Mexico Beach was my favorite beach...sigh”

We vacationed there when I was a kid. Great place; the last little vacation town that I’m aware of. I’m afraid when it comes back it’s going to be full of condos just like everywhere else. Major loss.


45 posted on 03/17/2021 2:10:23 PM PDT by suthener
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To: BamaBelle; freedomlover

Did ya’ll catch this story the other day?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3942726/posts


46 posted on 03/17/2021 2:13:28 PM PDT by suthener
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To: SJackson

Terrorist or Jewish Manta Ray?


47 posted on 03/17/2021 2:22:23 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: VeniVidiVici

Bet it wouldn’t have taken this one near that long to bring you in! LOL


48 posted on 03/17/2021 2:34:30 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Red Badger

While parasailing at St. Pete Beach years ago I saw a huge manta ray very close to shore - glided by maybe 25 feet from some people playing in the water, who had no idea it was there. Was very cool to see one!


49 posted on 03/17/2021 2:47:43 PM PDT by Ektelon
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To: Red Badger

So Cool!!!!!!


50 posted on 03/17/2021 3:21:32 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: moovova

I didn’t see that one coming. You win the Woke award!


51 posted on 03/17/2021 3:44:27 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: gw-ington

“That’s not a manta ray ... that’s Batman!”

Not Stingray, nor Manta Ray, nor even a Batman...

It’s clearly a UFO studying surfers.


52 posted on 03/17/2021 3:50:19 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Red Badger
One of our best holidays ever was a trip to Ningaloo Reef on the west of Australia. Most Americans (as well as most Aussies) are not that familiar with this reef, the world's longest fringe reef (260 kilometers long). Unlike the Great Barrier Reef, it is close to the shore. We went and snorkeled along with the whale sharks and manta rays. It is a fantastic trip.
53 posted on 03/17/2021 3:54:24 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

I love Okaloosa island. We took a couple there a few years back and decided to take a midnight stroll. It was a full moon and the water was still as could be. So we ventured out in the water about knee deep. I saw this sand shark coming our way. It was oblivious to us because it was chasing the small fishes. The wives about had a heart attack and me and the other guy thought it was funny as all get out. It didn’t spook until the flash from the camera went off and it took off like a bolt.


54 posted on 03/17/2021 4:59:39 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden/Harris - the regime our Founding fathers warned us about.)
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To: pangaea6

Oh no. He’d be dragging the boat out to sea :)


55 posted on 03/17/2021 5:02:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Biden's favorite word: What?)
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To: PAR35

That sounds quite believable LOL


56 posted on 03/17/2021 5:07:02 PM PDT by entropy12 (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have severe consequences.)
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To: entropy12

Here you go:

“This was a condition thought to be exclusive to women – sending them uncontrollably and neurotically insane owing to a dysfunction of the uterus (the removal of which is still called a hysterectomy)”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/mar/08/mind-your-language-feminisation-madness

Have a barf bucket handy if you read the whole thing.


57 posted on 03/17/2021 5:32:44 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: monkeyshine

There are a bunch of different rays. At our marina in Ventura, Ca certain times of the year the water by the gangways is full of bat rays and skates. I love watching them.


58 posted on 03/17/2021 6:45:49 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Seruzawa

They look like they are from outer space.
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Saw one once off Bonaire, while diving. We were at around 50 feet in clear water. The sea floor just lifted up and this mammoth ray hovered in the water, raining sand.

All I could think of was a UFO silently launching on anti-grav.

Awesome.


59 posted on 03/17/2021 6:48:29 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: time4good

Nope, I am. Check profile.


60 posted on 03/17/2021 6:57:23 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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