Big seas, strong winds, tiny seabirds.
Chris Gaskin and Neil Fitzgerald (pictured) have their sights set on the bird with a white rump (toward the right side of the picture) - a New Zealand storm petrel.
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A flat sea creature has excited a Northlander who found it washed up on Ninety Mile Beach.
An expert believes this is a New Zealand torpedo, or torpedo fairchildi, an endemic electric ray.
Electric rays stun their prey with an electric shock, estimated to be up to 50 volts in some rays - strong enough make an adult human collapse.
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