Apparently there’s such a thing as a fish tornado, and this is what it looks like

Fish tornadoes: They're real, and they're spectacular.

Hey! Fish tornado! That’s a thing that is real. And here it is:

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This video was taken by photographer/marine biologist Octavio Aburto at Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo National Park, where maybe things like fish tornadoes happen every day, I don’t know.

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