Spectacular bluefins caught on camera

STUNNING photos have captured Atlantic bluefin tuna in Westcountry waters.

- ELIZABETH HUNTER

Wildlife photographer Ross Wheeler, 37, caught the bluefin tuna breaching the surface as they hunted prey off the coast of Penzance in Cornwall.

He described the fish which can grow up to four metres long - as "the size of dolphins," and described how the school chased their prey towards the rocky coastline before going in for the kill.

"I was on a marine tour just out of Penzance, just off the south coast of Cornwall," said Ross.

"I thought they were dolphins at first. They were a similar size, if not bigger for some of them, than the common dolphins you see around the coast.