The waters near the Big Island are the stage and giant manta rays — swooping, circling, dipping — are the stars of a surreal underwater ballet that plays nightly.

The Big Island's Keauhou Bay, just south of the Kona Airport, is home to a large school of manta rays, each weighing up to 3,000 pounds with wingspans of up to 20 feet. You can snorkel (or even ...

The German Channel is probably the second best known divespot in Palau, ...after The Blue Corner. A great dive with a manta ...

We set out just before sunset with a group run by local dive tour operator Neptune Charlie’s. The trip is open to both snorkelers and scuba divers, so there's no experience necessary – other ...

If you really want to meet the locals in the Maldives, consider going on a manta ray cruise. Dive and research manta rays on Four Seasons Explorer cruises in Maldives - Los Angeles Times ...

While manta ray diving isn’t limited to how much oxygen they can store, like other deep divers like seals or whales, it may be restricted due to temperature.

Maldives: diving with manta rays. In a lagoon in the Maldives, Tim Ecott finds calm and tranquillity alongside manta rays, the mysterious gentle giants of the ocean.

Manta Matcher, a project of the Marine Megafauna Foundation, is one of these citizen science programs. The project is one of a collection of citizen science efforts that use an online platform called ...