A scuba diver has opened people’s eyes to the magical animals that can be found in UK waters when he shared a series of hypnotic videos of large stingrays swimming through Sussex waters.
“From this month, large stingrays begin to show up in the shallow waters of the South East,” says scuba diver Gio Prince on Instagram.
“The largest common stingrays I have ever seen have been here in Sussex. I have personally seen them in Bognor, Goring and Pagham.”
These large rays measure around a metre across, he says.
Some people were surprised to realise that we have stingrays in the UK. “Absolutely love this. Feel a bit naive not realising how much life is actually in our local sea,” commented one follower.
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Watch: Sussex stingrays
Video and image credit: Gio Prince