Scientists have recently identified this area as mating ground and possible manta nursery so it’s important you choose a reliable operator. Both cleaning station and feeding ground, mantas here can be seeing looping the loop in graceful chains. Dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of manta rays, gather in this lagoon and are often joined by several whale sharks.īeing so close to tourism hotspot Bali, the manta dive sites of Nusa Penida are easily accessible and growing increasingly popular. 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. Here are 5 best places to dive with Manta Rays, from the Maldives to Raja Ampat. 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. It’s probably the way they effortlessly and 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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