Beyond how he physically manages to swim through consecutive days of dark, deep, cold seas and just how badly he’s gotten stung before, one of the questions that Neil Agius keeps being asked is what exactly he sees when he gets his intense hallucinations. Well, Lovin Malta got an illustrator to bring his words to life.

During the latest episode of Lovin Meets, Neil brought up the things he saw during his last world record-breaking swim, and this time, his hallucinations seemed to gravitate around half-manta-ray, half-human figures that he saw around and underneath him. And when he heard Neil’s descriptions, Lovin Malta’s Josmar Darmanin (known online as Jozzy Ozzy) instantly got to work.

“In a way, it is like something out of Avatar,” Neil told Josmar when delving a bit deeper into what he said during the interview to better help the illustrator bring his words to life. “The Manta ray had this long thing wingspan, so eventually I did notice something was off.”

“The human figure wasn’t really holding the ray’s wings… it was more like, wearing it, like the arms were part of the wings,” Neil elaborated. “When the ray sort of flipped its wings around, kind of like a robe, the person’s head emerged from the top. As it closed its wings and was preparing to stand, the head and legs emerged.”

“The Manta ray had this pattern, it had these dark patches, but they weren’t symmetrical,” Agius continued. “They were kind of what you’d find on a dog, like large random patches. It had a shimmering blue coat.”