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Manta ray diving11/7/2023 That’s probably because they had the foresight to ban commercial fishing in all their territorial waters creating a massive Marine Sanctuary. You’d expect Palau to have mantas, because let’s face it – Palau has everything. The Resort is also deeply involved in manta conservation and they offer lots of information about mantas. Mantas can be seen whilst snorkelling as well as diving, and there are a couple of known cleaning stations, around Lighthouse Bommie where mantas are reliably sighted. Lady Elliot Island is a destination well known for manta activity – indeed, the island advertises itself as ‘Home of the Manta’ and is used frequently as a base for the research team at Project Manta. There are mantas at Lady Elliot all year round with numbers peaking between mid-May and mid-August. This site is very rich in plankton and also serves as a cleaning station. It is also known as Manta Site or Manta Mantra. There are a coupe of well-known manta dive sites in Raja Ampat but the best-known in Manta Sandy, located to the south of a large reef between Arborek Island and Mansuar Island towards the Dampier Strait’s western end. For a resort-based stay, Komodo Resort is also a great option. There are several manta aggregation spots in Komodo, and on a liveaboard trip with Mermaid I or Mermaid II, Blue Manta, Pindito, Moana – to name just a few – you are guaranteed an encounter. Dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of manta rays, gather in this lagoon and are often joined by several whale sharks.Ī new study conducted over several years in Komodo National Park, with over 4000 manta sightings uploaded by citizen scientists, reveals just how important the protection of waters within Komodo National Park really is. A collaborative effort between citizen divers, scientists from the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF), and Murdoch University, reports a large number of manta rays in the waters of Komodo National Park, Indonesian, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, suggesting the area may hold the key to regional recovery of the threatened species. 1085 individual mantas were identified in the survey, with 95 per cent of data contributed by citizen scientists – divers and snorkelers visiting the region between 20. The atolls in this region are best dived between July and October when the new moon creates large tidal flows and soupy plankton blooms, food for ocean giants. The Maldives, being a string of coral atolls surrounded by deep deep water, attract lots of pelagic creatures, including turtles, whale sharks, huge aggregations of nurse sharks and one of the world’s largest aggregations of mantas: Hanifaru Lagoon at Baa Atoll. Watching them barrel, over and over whilst feeding, and whilst courting, glide through the ocean on a love train simply makes you glad that mantas exist. Here are 5 best places to dive with Manta Rays, from the Maldives to Raja Ampat. It’s probably the way they effortlessly, gracefully (and apparently socially) soar through the blue water precisely in the way that we divers can’t. … Is it because these enormous creatures are completely harmless (unless you happen to be a plankton)? Is it because they are one of the largest fish in the ocean? Is it their inquisitiveness? (Mantas have the largest brain to body size ratio of any living fish). There’s nothing quite like diving with mantas.
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