Ice Swimming with Belugas

A 38-year old photographer Andrey Nekrasov took these amazing photos of divers swimming with beluga whales underneath the ice of White Sea. The beluga or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic species of cetacean. It is one of two members of the family Monodontidae, along with the narwhal. This marine mammal is commonly referred to simply as the beluga or sea canary