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Featuring a huge diversity of marine life including numerous giant mantas (up to 6m in width) which give the reef its name. North and south walls with adjacent pinnacles of rocks creating gullies at depths of 24m to 28m. The top of the reef is quite flat with beautiful soft corals & walls home large schools of yellow snapper, barracuda, bigeyes, fusiliers, hundreds of bright blue, red-tooth…

Mantas - MANY Mantas! Start the dive at Manta Parade and drift down all the way to Manta Run. Best time of the day: Between 4 and 5 pm. Try to drift where the water is only 10m deep when the sun is sending rays of warm yellow evening light through the surface. You'll see billions of iridescent blue fish and hopefully lots of mantas at the surface. try to do some snorkelling as well because the…

About 200 metres east of Dhiggiri resort you can reach this small reef with mantas during south west monsoon

Manta Point is a diving site with gray reefs, reef white tips, silver-tips and numerous sharks. While Penida Bay is another anchorage, and the rocky islands have an interesting forms; something like an old resting elephant. The bay is vulnerable to swell, creating-up-and-down-currents. Then, Manta Point is a limestone rock off Pandan cafe. The swell is relatively strong.There are several cleaning…

This area is marked with very large giant Trevallies, Sharks, beautiful Coral and a high diversity of other invertebrate life in relatively shallow water between 5-20m depth. Sometimes lots of Manta Rays may be seen feeding between September and January each year. The tiny rocky islands in this southern Komodo bay are great for snorkeling and diving, even if there are no Manta Rays. Only little…

Drift Dive with mantas and a nice reef in the shallows.Here manta rays come from all directions, their wing tipsbreaking the surface at regular intervals and circle around you. Theypreferto swim close to the surface, so actually snorkeling is also a goodway to interactwith them. They congregate here in large numbers and feed on planktonor arecleaned at special cleaning stations. The best time to…

Drift dive along the wall: Grey and Whitetip reef sharks, Mantas...

Manta Point is generally an easy dive site, sometimes the current gives you a fine drift. The best season to see Mantas, is from March to May, though February and June also offer good possibilities to see them. Mantas can be seen sporadically year-round. 17 Mantas have been seen here at one time.The nutrients carried into the water by runoff from land, make the mantas more active. So, the lower…

Hundreds of small damselfishes make this a top island dive. For years divers have hand-fed the fish of Masts Ray Bay which include some not-so-small Maori wrasse. The terrain is diverse with scattered bommies starting at 10-12 metres and reaching up to within 2 metres of the surface. Acropora corals dominate, with large plates on the top of the bommies and fields of staghorns in the shallow waters…

Lankan or Manta point is one of the most exciting dive sites in Maldives. It consists on three cleaning stations (or four) for mantas. It is almost sure to find the big guys here.The most important part is to stay away of the cleaning stations (the base of the rocks). If a diver stands there, the mantas will see it as occupation of the area and will go away.Control your buoyancy, mantain good…

The reef does not have much in the way of Coral or fish life however this location is a Manta Ray aggregation site. The best way to find the Manta Rays is to cruise along the Eastern face of the reef until you see them at the surface. The best time is during rising tide when there sometimes can be up to 40 Manta Rays.The best is to drift dive from the northern passage all along the current and…

Manta Ray Drop Off, in the Whitsundays on the Great Barrier Reef, boastsspectacular underwater cliffs and a plunging wall that drops off to 30metres. The wall is covered with gorgonians, soft coral trees, spongesand sea whips. The Manta Ray Drop Off site is great forsnorkelling as well as diving. Best known for the soaring Manta Raysfound cruising the wall in winter (May to September), reef sharks…

This dive site is on the outside of the reef close to the lighthouse at the centre of the reef. Turtles, moray eels and most types of Red Sea fish can be seen here, possibly even a reef shark, as well as the possibility of Mantas in season.

This marine protected reef on the south of Rangali Kandu starts from 2-3 meters and drops to 10 meters gradually. After 10 meters most of the reef drops vertically down to 25-30 meters.During the nort east monsoon there are very good chances to find mantas here, feeding on the plankton rich water going out of the atoll. Outside of Manta season this is still a very attractive site with a high…

Done as a ferry and bus trip to North Stradbroke Island, and dived from a small boat. This is the place to go if you missed seeing a manta at Flinders. Shallow dives to 10 metres with mantas (in the summer months) Leopard sharks and shovel-nosed rays. Very weather dependent dive site.Manta season goes from late Nov/Dec through to April. Awesome during the Manta season from late Nov/Dec through to…

If you would like to experience Mantas up close and personal then this is the place. On a good day you could be surrounded by up to twenty feeding Mantas. The Mantas are attracted by the large quantities of plankton that collect in the corners of the bay and come here for their daily feed. If you're lucky you may even encounter one of the beautiful black Mantas or an inquisitive bamboo shark.

Manta Point, said to be one of the world’s finest dive sites, is situated just beyond the mouth of the Fundu Gap, west of Fundu Island. It is well-named, though mantas are not guaranteed. During dry season from January, to April it is possible to see Devil and Eagle rays in groups of up to 15 individuals. They visit this spectacular coral pinnacle for cleaning purposes or just to glide past…

This is a great night dive spot. Mantas are really fabulous (success rate is about 80%). If you miss them, typical marine life found in this area are garden eels, squirrel fish, goat fish, butterfly fish, moray eels and invertebrates.This great spot is second only to Manta Ray Village. The Sheraton hotle shines lights down into the water which attracts plankton. In search of a meal, manta rays…

Drift dive or even better snorkel between 4 and 5 pm! You'll drift down all the way to Manta Run and the boat can pick you up at Sandy Ridge. Be careful not to drift to far into the deep. Stay close to the shallow parts o the reef - there's a lot more interesting stuff to see. It's a great place to see Mantas feed. Maybe you'll see barracudas or blacktip sharks.Somewhere in that area there's a…

Mantaray Bay is located at the northern most tip of Hook Island and is in a 'No Fishing one'. The end result is that this section of Hook Island has spectacular corals and fish life. Visibility is often exceptional and it's a very popular snorkel site and occasional dive site for those that make the effort.It offers a great dive with a variety of fish species and other marine life such as turtles,…