Extremely rare sunfish found off Sydney's Northern Beaches

Extremely rare sunfish found off Sydney's Northern Beaches

Source: 9news

11/1/2022

Credit: Nine

Two divers had an "extremely rare" encounter with one of the ocean's most mysterious creatures off Sydney's Northern Beaches.
Two sunfish swam up to investigate Justin Ewan and Josh Ku at Long Reef before gliding away.
Ewan said he was with Ku on a jet ski just off Manly when he spotted the sunfish.

"I dove down to about 10 metres and looked straight ahead and saw two massive figures coming towards me," Ewan said.
"It wasn't until they came a lot closer to me that I realised they were sunfish, the pair of them.
"They actually swam up to me, I think they were a bit more curious than I was."

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