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An image showing a photographer standing on the sea floor, dwarfed by an enormous and towering "tornado" of fish has been an extremely popular share item on Facebook for weeks. Now the details behind the image are being shared by Mission Blue. The photographer is a scientist named Octavio Aburto, and the location was Cabo Pulmo National Park, a vast marine reserve in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, north of Cabo San Lucas on Baja California's tip. The diver in the photo is David Castro, whose family helps enforce rules within the park. The fish are jacks, voracious predators that school in large groups and can sweep across a region in such large numbers that they blot out the sun's rays. Aburto told Mission Blue: "I think my background [as a scientist] affects what I seek to capture through my camera lens. For example, this 'David and Goliath' image is speaking to the courtship behavior of one particular species of Jack fish. I wanted to share this behavior with others and photography is one way to do that." The scientist explained that the image, captured last month and among entries in a National Geographic photo contest, had been in his mind for three years. But conditions and timing finally afforded the opportunity. "I have been trying to capture this image ever since I saw the behavior of these fish and witnessed this incredible tornado that they form during courtship," Aburto said. He added that many have asked whether the image is real or altered, and how he managed to ...