Photographer Brian Skerry (10 photos)

Rare underwater footage of endangered marine life.

Manta ray emerging from the water, Mexico





According to a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), marine life numbers have halved over the past 45 years. National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has been monitoring them for 18 years. He has photographed many endangered underwater species off the coast of Mexico and among remote coral reefs in the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

A harp seal pup in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada



An oceanic whitetip shark and biologist Wes Pratt, Bahamas

Spinnose dolphins in the waters of Oahu, Hawaiian Archipelago



Whale shark and fish, Mexico



Leatherback turtle off Pico Island, Azores Portugal



Leatherback turtles, Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela



Manatees, Three Sisters Spring, Crystal River Florida



A huge tuna off Prince Edward Island, Canada



Tortoisefish, Vostok Atoll, Pacific Ocean ocean