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If you had looked in the New Zealand Geographic office fridge in the summer of 2018 you would have found, next to the beer and the old film, a carefully wrapped plastic bag containing half a dozen transmitting GPS tags. Each one was worth thousands of dollars, and each was destined to be attached to a manta ray.
Except no one knew where to find a manta ray. Department of Conservation marine scientist Clinton Duffy and Conservation International’s Mark Erdmann and Scott Tindale from the Auckland-based Tindale Marine Research Charitable Trust had assembled enough sightings of manta rays in New Zealand waters to know they visited. But the observations were spread from Cape Brett to Cape Colville, right on the edge of New Zealand’s territorial limit.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 174 March/April 2022.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/catching-rays/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2022.
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If you had looked in the New Zealand Geographic office fridge in the summer of 2018 you would have found, next to the beer and the old film, a carefully wrapped plastic bag containing half a dozen transmitting GPS tags. Each one was worth thousands of dollars, and each was destined to be attached to a manta ray.<br /> Except no one knew where to find a manta ray. Department of Conservation marine scientist Clinton Duffy and Conservation International’s Mark Erdmann and Scott Tindale from the Auckland-based Tindale Marine Research Charitable Trust had assembled enough sightings of manta rays in New Zealand waters to know they visited. But the observations were spread from Cape Brett to Cape Colville, right on the edge of New Zealand’s territorial limit.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 174 March/April 2022.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/catching-rays/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2022.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.