Dive Review of Manta Ray Bay in
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Manta Ray Bay, Jun, 2013, by Brian Morrow, GA, US ( Sr. Contributor 21 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 7079.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was our first time to Yap and the MRBR but we traveled with a seasoned vet. We flew into Yap on the Saturday night/Sunday morning United flight from Guam after having a 20 hour layover in Guam after flying the Atlanta to Tokyo to Guam route on Delta. Upon arrival at the MRBR our luggage was whisked to the room and the paperwork all held until morning since it was about 2 a.m. or so. Our Ocean view deluxe room was a free upgrade with our early booking and the room was spacious, clean and had its own covered immersion pool on the deck. Grounds are well maintained and the resort is located within easy walking distance of town where there is a bank, grocery store and several other retail establishments. Our package included daily breakfast. Meals are served at the Mnuw Restuarant which is actually on a 100+ year old Indonesian schooner..very unique. Breakfast was the best meal served with a variety of standards, eggs, omelets, bacon, ham, pancakes, french toast. The lunch and dinner menu was largely made up of fish sandwiches, burgers and pizza with a fish or chicken special. Over the course of a week the menu grew a little boring. The resort also has its own brewpub and its brews served on the Mnuw. We dove with Yap Divers which is associated with the MRBR. Due to the fact that June is low season in Yap there were only the three in our party on the skiff so we were able to decide where we were going to dive each day. The skiff was outfitted with sun protection, tank holders and dry boxes. We did the three dives per day package which included box lunches so we did not have to return to the MRBR for lunch. Unfortunately, lunch, except for the fruit platter was largely disappointing. Our diveguides were Nico and Tony who we enjoyed diving with very much. We dove Stamm, the shallow manta cleaning station, four times during the week but did not see one manta there. We did have a 45 second fly by encounter with two mantas at the deep cleaning station and then a 25 minute encounter with a large manta at a cleaning station on the windward side of the island, which due to wind conditions we could only dive once during the week. The Vertigo dive site has plenty of sharks whenever you drop in there and we did, three times. Overall, it was a very enjoyable trip and we will likely go back at some point in the future.
Websites	Manta Ray Bay
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	all over Caribbean, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea,
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy, currents
Water Temp	84-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-100 Ft/ 6-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Nitrox limits
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	MRBR has a nice camera room set-up with several stations that include storage and electric outlets. Facility on the boats is a plastic bucket which was fine for us as there were just three on board. Rinse bucket could get tight if there were too many more on board.

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Dive Review of Manta Ray Bay in Micronesia/Yap

Manta Ray Bay, Jun, 2013,

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Dive Review of Manta Ray Bay in
Micronesia/Yap