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Pelayo Salinas

@pelayosalinas

🤿 Happy marine biologist & explorer
🦈 Researcher @charlesdarwinfoundation
🧜🏽‍♂️ Ambassador @coexistprojects
Protecting the 🌊 last wild places

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Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-12

“Remember to look up at the stars ✨ and not down at your feet 👣. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up”. Wise words by Stephen Hawking, beautiful sharkies by Mother Nature. Let’s #savesharks from extinction 🙏🏼 #savethesharks #saveourseas #hammerhead Shot while on a #sharkresearch expedition with @saveourseasfoundation @charlesdarwinfoundation @syacadia @sony.espana @isotta_underwater_housings

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-01-28

The enchanted islands 🌋. The real Jurassic world 🦕 Nowhere else in our galaxy ✨ you can get to dive with mini #Godzilla 🦖 and her ocean friends 🐟 🐢 #galapagosislands #jurassicworld #jurassicpark With @syacadiaonboard @saveourseasfoundation @isotta_underwater_housings @sony.espana

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-10

Monday #daydreaming about Darwin’s Arch 🦈 What’s your favorite dive 🤿 site in our blue planet? Thank you Mother Nature for these unforgettable moments beneath the waves that keep reinforcing my life commitment to keep up the fight to #savesharks from extinction 💪🏼 While on a #sharkresearch expedition with @saveourseasfoundation @charlesdarwinfoundation @syacadiaonboard @fonassociation Shot on a @isotta_underwater_housings @sonyalpha #savethesharks #hammerhead #sharks

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2025-03-18

What’s better than a Mola 🐟 dive!? A dive 🤿 with 25 Molas! Punta Vicente Roca, also known as La Oreja del Burro (Donkey’s ear), probably is one of the best dive sites in our blue planet to hang out with these gentle ocean giants. These sunfish come here to visit reef fish cleaning stations (aka the fish #spa) for a beauty treatment. Watching how their coloration changes from the satisfaction of getting cleaned it is just simply #amazing 💙 Shot while on expedition with @syacadiaonboard @charlesdarwinfoundation @saveourseasfoundation #mola #sunfish #pezluna #galapagosislands #fishspa #beautyhacks

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-03-03

Today and everyday should be #worldwildlifeday 🐼🦈 🐳🐠🦇🪸🐍 It is simple: without our natural world, we wouldn’t exist. It is time to give some #love back and embrace a sustainable way of coexisting inside the beautiful blue planet of ours 🌎. There is no planet b 🚀 Thank you for supporting the fight to keeping our oceans #wild @charlesdarwinfoundation @saveourseasfoundation @syacadiaonboard @nsu_ghri_sosfsrc @guyharveyocean @fonassociation @markewang #wildlife #awesome #blueplanet #saveourseas

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-27

Never change, Darwin’s Arch 💙 This is one of the first underwater pictures I took at my happy underwater place. Over a decade later, getting in the water here is still as special as the first day 🦈 We need many more marine reserves in our blue planet. We need many more sharks in our oceans. We need to embrace sustainability. Shot while on a #sharkresearch expedition with @charlesdarwinfoundation @saveourseasfoundation #savethesharks #saveourseas #hammerheadshark #whaleshark

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-25

Any given day 🤿 at Darwin’s Arch, the BeSt dive site in our blue planet 🦈 Thank you Mother Nature for these magnificent creatures 💙 Shot with @sony.espana @isotta_underwater_housings #savethesharks #saveourseas #vivalavida

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-21

Sea fairy 🧚‍♂️ tales The way they effortlessly glide through the water, combined with their mesmerizing spotted color pattern, give ocellated eagle rays an almost #mythical look. But the best part of our blue planet’s story, is that its underwater reality always surpasses fiction 💙 It is time to give some #love back to our oceans, and give them a break from overfishing, the climate crisis, pollution… and all the other mean things we do to them on a daily basis. It is time to embrace #sustainability 🙏🏼 Shot while on a #sharkresearch expedition with @charlesdarwinfoundation @saveourseasfoundation @nsu_ghri_sosfsrc @isotta_underwater_housings @sony.espana #seafairy #fairytale #eagleray #saveourseas

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-20

The photo 🦈, the behind the scenes 🤿 with @sr_fino Sony Alpha A1 on #isotta housing vs GoPro 11, you judge 🧐 Only at the mighty Darwin’s Arch, the sharkiest 🦈 place on earth! We need many more marine protected areas in our blue planet where our oceans can recover to former glory 🙏🏼 Thank you @sony.espana @alphauniversebysony.eu @isotta_underwater_housings #savethesharks #hammerheadshark #extinctionisforever

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-17

There is beauty 🦈, and then there is scalloped hammerhead sharks beauty 💙 Despite all their awesomess, scalloped hammerhead sharks are listed as critically endangered by the International union for the conservation of nature (#iucn). This means they are just one step away from #extinction. It is time we give #sharks a break from overfishing and return their global populations to former glory 🙏🏼 #savesharks #saveourseas #hammerheadshark Shot while on a #sharkresearch expedition with @charlesdarwinfoundation @saveourseasfoundation @nsu_ghri_sosfsrc @syacadiaonboard @fonassociation @isotta_underwater_housings @sony.espana

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-14

My platonic love 💙🔨🦈 It is about time we #love sharks before it is too late, #extinctionisforever 💔 Happy #sanvalentin day! #savethesharks #saveourseas #savetheplanet

Post by pelayosalinas
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2025-02-06

The underwater world of mini #godzilla 🦖 Can you guess where!? There is just one place in our solar system where you can encounter these #magnificient creatures 💙 #jurassicworld #jurassicpark #enchantedislands Shot 📸 With @isotta_underwater_housings @sony.espana