{"id":305042,"date":"2025-12-08T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:13:06","slug":"bull-ray-spotted-in-mallorca-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305042\/","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 Cap Andritxol, 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 a spectacular bull ray, 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. The bull ray population in the Mediterranean is critically declining 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":305043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2739,3948,3949,122215,122216,122217,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-305042","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-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}