A Mantaray which I made by improvisation, I was playing with a piece of paper in class and all of a sudden... this appeared in my hands (I can make it without that separation in the "wings" but the tail would be shorter, also, I like it more without his eyes)

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Yasawas, Fiji – Hungry manta rays feeding in plankton-rich tropical waters

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A Mantaray which I made by improvisation, I was playing with a piece of paper in class and all of a sudden... this appeared in my hands (I can make it without that separation in the "wings" but the tail would be shorter, also, I like it more without his eyes)

Taken at a zoo in New Orleans, if I remember correctly. And is it just me, or is he smiling?

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Spotted in the shipping channel to Port Everglades Fort Lauderdale Florida

Mantaray (Manta birostris) banking away.

Beach on the western side of Mantaray Island

Mantas!

Smooth-handed Ghost Crab (Ocypode cordimanus) on the beach at the Mantaray Resort, Nanuya Balavu Island in the Yasawa Island Group, Fiji. Photographed on 14 November 2015.

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Me and Kerrie on the beach before going our seperate ways

Raja Ampat

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Yap Island

Manta and shark diving at Socorro Island.

Manta Ray, Raie manta

Hanifaru Bay

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Underwater three of a kind. This trio of manta rays were feeding on the plankton in the light of our raft off the shore of Hawaii.

Ford and I in the black night water.

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View from the verandah of our Jungle Burre at the Mantaray Resort on Nanuya Balavu Island in the Yasawa Island Group, Fiji. Photographed on 14 November 2015.

©© Arthur Chapman and Audrey Bendus.

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Two manta rays circle a coral cleaning station in the Maldives underneath a sun burst

in Ishigaki

There are two versions of what happened next.

My version: I sort of goggled in mid air, pulled out the camera, messed around with it to take off all the zoom and tried to get a photo. I was then pulled towards the manta by the current cos I wasn't trying to swim against it. The manta swam past into the distance.

Everyone else's version: muppet boy swam straight at the manta and scared it off by waving a silly plastic box at it.

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Niv with a creative Manta Ray food display by our Chefs

Manta Rays at Mantapoint, Nusa Penida. Very impressive to see these 3m. wide fish swim beside you. Too bad the water was a bit murky but the experience was awesome!