{"id":620096,"date":"2025-12-08T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:11:12","slug":"bull-ray-spotted-in-mallorca-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620096\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull ray spotted in Mallorca waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Mallorcan diver Ram\u00f3n Javier Fern\u00e1ndez Barea, nicknamed &#8216;Es Canari&#8217;, has made another exceptional discovery during one of his dives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Mallorca.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mallorca<\/a>&#8216;s waters. The sighting occurred near <strong>Cap Andritxol<\/strong>, along the island&#8217;s western coastline, where Fern\u00e1ndez Barea regularly conducts voluntary clean-up operations beneath the waves.<\/p>\n<p>The diver encountered <strong>a spectacular bull ray<\/strong>, an endangered species in the Mediterranean and one of the largest of its kind, potentially reaching over 2 metres in length. The impressive creature was found nestled among rocks, catching the attention of Ram\u00f3n, who routinely documents his underwater encounters with a camera.<\/p>\n<p>This sighting is particularly noteworthy as Fern\u00e1ndez Barea reports having seen only three specimens throughout his many years of diving around the island. <strong>The bull ray population in the Mediterranean is critically declining<\/strong> due to overfishing and accidental catches, which represent the primary threats to the few remaining individuals spotted in these waters.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Mallorca&#8217;s shores, bull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Rays.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rays<\/a> have been documented off the coast near Tarragona, while other populations exist in the eastern Atlantic and Caribbean waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well-known Mallorcan diver Ram\u00f3n Javier Fern\u00e1ndez Barea, nicknamed &#8216;Es Canari&#8217;, has made another exceptional discovery during one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[2843,2838,2839,193056,193057,44791,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":["post-620096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-latest-headlines","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-mallorca-diving","tag-mallorca-sea","tag-rays","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115684119898804170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}