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Manta Ray Bay: "ONE TRIP - TWO DIVES-OF-A-LIFETIME", Mar, 2019, by Ken Kurtis, CA, US ( Sr. Contributor 20 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 10887 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
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Comments	Here's one of the dives-of-a-lifetime: We started out fairly benignly, dropping in behind a protected corner at 5:03PM, according to the time-stamp from my camera. Ran into a nice Titan Trigger about two minutes later and then were meandering along. Six minutes into the dive, the first of SEVEN different mantas appeared, coming down the channel from the cleaning station and heading towards open ocean. After that, we saw the lead fish in what would become a huge school of Whitetongued Trevallies. Then another Titan followed by a Flagtail Trigger. Then the second manta, followed two minutes later by the third. Then an iridescent blue Goatfish I’d never seen before, followed by some Whitetips in the sand, over whom were circling a small school (about a dozen) of juvy Gray Reef Sharks. A little later on, there was a huge Map Puffer getting cleaned, some Blackfin Barracuda passed by overhead, a few more mantas came down the freeway, then we ran into an enormous school of Bigeye Trevallies and in the midst of them were concealed a small squadron of Eagle Rays (maybe a dozen), which morphed into a large school of Humpback Wrasse. A couple of more Whitetip Sharks passed by, followed by a large school of Black Snappers, then a few more mantas flying down the sides of the channel, our big school of Whitetongued Trevallies (whose outliers we had previously seen), more Black Snappers, more Bigeye Trevallies, some Longbar Goatfish, a large aggregation of One-Spot Snappers, some Humpnose Bigeye Bream, and then it was all topped off by a final manta fly-by while we were at our safety stop. My full trip report: [reefseekers.com link] 150-image slideshow: [reefseekers.com link]
Websites	Manta Ray Bay [same]
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	I dive all over the world on a regular basis (please don't hate me).
Closest Airport	Yap	Getting There	LAX-HNL-GUM-YAP. No matter where you start, your only option is to get to Guam and the United down to Yap.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	73-83°F / 23-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	30-100 Ft/ 9-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	No time/depth limits (other than don't go into deco). Most dives around 60 minutes but we did a few that approached 90 minutes.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Report currently has 2 Helpful votes

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By GAIL MORRIS in CA, US at Apr 07, 2019 06:12 EST

We are currently in Yap, and seeing much of the same! Hooray!

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Dive Review of Manta Ray Bay in Micronesia/Yap

Manta Ray Bay: "ONE TRIP - TWO DIVES-OF-A-LIFETIME", Mar, 2019,

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Dive Review of Manta Ray Bay in
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