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Tonight was possibly the best manta ray night dive ever
2008-05-20 12:30:00 Hawaii fish video from Steve on Vimeo.Here's a few minutes snippet I took with my Canon G9. I hadn't been diving it much the last year, but back when I dove it a lot I'd been down on nights when 15-17 mantas showed up quite a number of times. Tonight there were many more, I figured 25 would be extremely conservative, and 30-32 more likely. I talked to the videographer afterwards and she said she saw 26 she knew (the video people typically take a slate down and list the ones they recognise, they all have different spot patterns) and said there were several others she didn't know... figured there were 30 minimum. We'll see how many there were in a day or so when all the videographers compare notes. Last night they had 28, which tied the previous record showing, but there seems to be a secret manta network... these fish must somehow communicate to each other when and where the feeding's good and there was a very good amount of plankton in the water tonight. Happy, happy, hap...
Zeus the 980lbs Giant Manta Ray
2008-05-13 09:35:00 Zeus is a 980lbs giant manta ray that was living happily at an Atlantis resort as part of a research and release program was released to the ocean the other day. Here’s a picture of mighty Zeus. About 13ft in diameter, they had to transport him via helicopter to the ocean. He spent 3 happy years ...
Zeus the 980lbs Giant Manta Ray
2008-05-13 09:35:00 Zeus is a 980lbs giant manta ray that was living happily at an Atlantis resort as part of a research and release program was released to the ocean the other day. Here’s a picture of mighty Zeus. About 13ft in diameter, they had to transport him via helicopter to the ocean. He spent 3 happy years ...
A bunch of mantas at the Kona manta ray night dive tonight...
2008-05-07 11:58:00 We did the manta dive tonight after doing the morning trip also. I'm making this post quick, gotta hit the hay for a few hours and get up for tomorrow's charter - we've been staying quite busy despite being the slow time of year.... How slow is it you may ask... this last Saturday the only other dive charters I saw on the water were the two companies that service primarily Japanese clientele and two companies that have been here for over 25 years. Saturdays seem to be generally a slower dive day because it's a travel day or "the last full day in Kona so I'll do something other than dive" day for a lot of people. We've been going out consistantly, be we are running a bit light (as far as number of divers on the boat) often, going out with a light load beats not going out at all though.Here's a scorpion fish I took a picture of on a night dive a couple weeks back. With the night time coloration it's tough for me to tell if it's a Decoy Scorpionfish or a Speckled Scorpionfis...
Manta Ray Diving in Kona with Wayne Levin
2008-04-28 02:23:00 View This Video on You TubeGet up close and personal with Hawaii’s manta rays as you go on a night dive with underwater photographer Wayne Levin. Explore the western waters off of Hawaii’s Big Island and swim with Kona’s otherworldly manta rays. Learn more at http://www.gohawaii.com/play.
Took some underwater video with my Canon G9 on the manta ray night dive ton
2008-04-23 12:14:00 Kona manta ray night dive April 08 from Steve on Vimeo.Tonight we had two mantas show up for the night dive. I took my camera down to see how it does with video in low light - I'm quite pleased, it seems to do better than the other point and shoots I've had.Water conditions were pretty good today, it's still cool though... 75 degrees. I was hoping the big south swell we had the last week would bump it up a bit higher. later, Steve
Manta ray night snorkel in Kona Hawaii - swim with manta rays...
2008-03-08 09:18:00 Wierd little video of people snorkeling with manta rays from Steve on Vimeo. We've been pretty busy lately, I've got a lull coming for several days before the spring break rush kicks in for about a month. Last night we did a manta dive. About half of our group was divers and the other half snorkelers. I posted plenty on this before, but this is a video of what it looks like to the boat Captains during the dives. The divers are down below in about 32-34 feet of water and the mantas spend their time between the divers on the bottom and the snorkelers on the surface. If you look real hard, you'll see brief instances where there's a real bright spot directly under a group or two of the snorkelers on the left side of the video about half way in... that's actually a manta ray doing belly rolls a foot or two below the snorkelers. It was kind of a bumpy night, so you'll notice the water isn't glass smooth, but it wasn't big surf by any means either. The video doesn't do th...
free 3D Manta Ray Aqua
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See manta rays live as they move majestically
2007-12-18 11:32:00 Maldives is amongst one of the world's best place to see manta rays live and know that the joy of diving with mantas is difficult to overstate. Manta rays capture divers' imaginations since they move so gracefully and majestically through the water - whether frolicking in the surf, or enjoying the skin care treatment of a mantaray cleaning station. Scuba ChannelThe best time to see manta rays live in Maldives is somewhere between June and October. This time of the year you can see a great number of manta rays and many different varieties.Lankanfinolhu Faru (Manta Point)During this part of the year astonishing number of manta rays can be seen in the south east corner of the luxurious resort known as Paradise Island Resort (dive point name:Lankanfinolhu Faru) when they come in to be cleaned. In the many atolls of the Maldives there is no end to the number of manta points. As with many good manta points, the top of the reef is at 12m ((40ft); the reef then slopes gentl...
2 mantas at the Kona manta ray night dive this Saturday...
2007-12-17 08:33:00 Actually one extra showed up at the very end of the dive. Bob and I were out with some customers from Oahu for the dive. They really enjoyed it and asked me to give them a heads up the next time we start seeing big numbers for a stretch so they could give that a try.Bob said the water temp had dropped on his computer by 2 degrees from the day before. That tends to happen in December when the temperature starts dropping, each new northwest swell can potentially drop it a degree or two. He saw 77 on his computer yesterday afternoon... still fairly warm but this year never really topped out too warm so it could be cool by next month.Above is a Wire Coral Goby (Bryaninops yongei?) that Pat took a picture of a few weeks back. These guys spend pretty much their entire lives living on a wire coral, adult lives anyway as I'm not sure what the larvae and juveniles do.I stayed up top for both dives so I didn't get to have any of the fun. My big excitment for the night was just hearing a...
Baby Giant Manta Ray at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobucho, Okinawa
2007-10-04 20:46:00 A baby giant manta ray swims inside a huge fish tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobucho, Okinawa Prefecture (State), southwestern Japan, Saturday, June 16, 2007. The female manta was born earlier in the day, becoming the first manta to be born inside a fish tank, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium) ** NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **
Elegant Helium RC Manta Ray
2007-09-08 23:42:00 From Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog: This in manta ray motion swimming RC air balloon as absolutely stunning. Not av...
Famous Manta Ray Dies, Rare Mussel, Week in Photos
2007-06-23 02:00:00 RIP: First Giant Manta Ray Born in Captivity Dies; 4 Days Old Rare giant fan mussel is discovered in Irish waters; ‘only known living example in Ireland’ in UnderwaterTimes.com Week in Photos: Lake Disappears, Hungarian Mummies, More: “ See a roundup of the week’s news and events: Ganges pollution, China hot-air balloon festival, winter solstice celebration, and more. ”
World's first manta ray born in captivity dies in Japan - Monsters and
2007-06-22 12:54:00 World's first manta ray born in captivity dies in JapanMonsters and Critics.com, UK - 45 minutes agoTokyo - The world's first manta ray born in captivity, in an aquarium on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, died five days after its birth, ...
World's first manta ray born in captivity dies in Japan - Monsters and
2007-06-22 12:54:00 World's first manta ray born in captivity dies in JapanMonsters and Critics.com, UK - 45 minutes agoTokyo - The world's first manta ray born in captivity, in an aquarium on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, died five days after its birth, ...
"Manta Ray" Rendezvous
2007-06-20 21:21:00 Location, Christmas Island, Pacific. A lovely little coral island, shaped like a horseshoe, with a lovely blue main central lagoon. The sun going down behind the palm trees on the far side of the lagoon was something else. In addition to gawking at the coral reefs, and when I could tear myself away from them, myself and colleagues would go water skiing. When I arrived at the island I hadn't a clue about water skiing, but wanted to learn. This sometimes was a 'lot of salt water down the throat' and comical process. When learning, I was told very clearly to let go of the tow rope if I fell off. Pretty obvious really. My instinct seemed to be to hang on! The tow boat crew reckoned it was the best show yet, a largish wave and a face within it followed by a submerged skier. I soon learned.
By: Aquarists Online
We're doing a manta ray night dive tonight...
2007-04-30 20:53:00 The mantas have been around the last couple of nights and we're going up with a group tonight. Yesterday we had some interesting dives. We had a small group on who had to change their schedule from morning to late afternoon and wanted to do two dives right outside the harbor at a site that has a lot going on... a lot going on was definitely the case yesterday. I missed out on most of the fun because I played captain, but I did manage a "captain's dive" in between (Bob's also a licensed captain, as as long as one of us is on board at all times everything's cool). During the first dive, they were swarmed by a sizeable group of uluas (jacks), Bob said there were maybe 30-40 in the group - this is just something we don't see here, I think I've maybe seen 10-12 at a time before. Also seen over the course of the dives were leaf scorpion, a reticulated frogfish that I'm dieing to get a picture of (I couldn't find it on my dive), longfin anthias, 2 dwarf morays (along with sever...
Seguidores de Steve Irwin están acabando con las manta rayas
2006-09-13 21:27:02 Después de la sensible pérdida de Steve Irwin, el «cazador de cocodrilos», muchos de sus seguidores han tomado ofensiva en contra de las manta rayas, por considerarlas peligrosas para los seres humanos, después de que el pasado 4 de septiembre, muriera Irwin por una picadura de raya. Las autoridades australianas temen que los seguidores de Steve Irwin, el conocido naturalista que hace una semana atravesado por el aguijón de un pez raya, hayan decidido tomarse la justicia por su mano. Hasta 16 cadáveres de esta especie han sido hallados, muchos de ellos mutilados, en los últimos días en las costas del país. Los responsables del Estado de Queensland, donde han aparecido muertos diez ejemplares, han anunciado una investigación y han recordado que cualquier represalia contra estos animales podrían tener consecuencias penales. A dos de los diez ejemplares hallados muertos en Queensland se les había cortado el aguijón, lo que refuerza la hipótesis de la venganza. Otros seis peces raya ...
By: Bitperbit
2 manta rays at the Kona manta ray night dive last night.
2006-07-03 05:19:00 We took our group out last night and enjoyed seeing 2 rays. This morning I had three on the boat and did a couple of nice dives. Tomorrow we're pulling a double again with a two tanker in the morning and an afternoon and evening dive later in the day.I didn't take the camera down today, and I sort of wish I had for one particular thing. I found an interesting nudibranch I hadn't see before, segmented like a blue dragon nudibranch, but it definitely was not a blue dragon nudi. It was nowhere near as frilly. Oh well, maybe I'll see another sometime in the next 7 or 8 years.Herre's a photo of a Titan Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis cacopsis) that was tucked away in an archway. The flash really brings out the colors on both the scorpionfish and the archway. They're tough to see. I had to point at it for almost a minute from just a few inches away and trace the outline with my fingers for one of my divers to realize what it was... not uncommon to have to do, they can be that har...
No mantas on the manta ray night dive tonight.
2006-06-23 12:41:00 Bummer. The last few nights have been off an on for the manta rays apparently. Tonight was an off night. We had plenty of plankton, but no mantas to be seen. We usually set up for the mantas and if there are none in roughly 15 minutes we'll turn it into a regular night dive and check back every so often to see if any mantas have come in.Tonight's night dive was very nice though. We saw two good sized spiny lobsters, a regal slipper lobster, several common slipper lobsters, two Hawaiian red lobsters, a large anemone hermit crab, a smaller anemone hermit crab, tons of shrimp, loads of eels out hunting and other good stuff. We had two experienced divers tonight so I took the camera down. Right now it's not really set up for night shots, I probably won't take it down on night dives 'til I figure a few things out. I'm posting a couple pics that turned out.The fish at the top is a Stocky Hawkfish (Cirrhitus pinnulatus). We see these fish often at night and they have a neat ... |
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