The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays

The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays

After 30 hours on a stormy sea aboard a Portuguese Navy ship, we finally made it to our destination in the middle of the ocean. Here, 124 miles or so off the coast of Lisbon, lies the tallest mountain in western Europe, only it’s underwater: the Gorringe Seamount. I had traveled there with an international team of scientists who, over a period of weeks, dove from a four-masted sailboat into the deep blue. They had traveled to the seamount to stu…