Huge Manta Ray Asks Diver For Help Removing Painful Hooks Caught In Her Eye
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Huge Manta Ray Asks Diver for Help Removing Painful Hooks Caught in Her Eye
Sometimes you need a friend with opposable thumbs.
Thankfully, a giant manta ray with hooks caught in her eye found one of these buddies out in the deep blue sea.
Jake Wilton, an underwater photographer from Ningaloo Marine Interactions, was diving in the waters of Australia’s Ningaloo Reef with marine biologist Monty Hall when he was approached by the massive sea creature.
“I’m often guiding snorkelers in the area and it’s as if she recognized me and was trusting me to help her,” Wilton said of the moment in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “She got closer and closer and then started unfurling to present the eye to me. I knew we had to get the hooks out of her eye or she would have been in big trouble.”
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