Diving with manta rays is a unique feeling and experience. Manta, Giant Manta, Pacific Manta or Devil's Manta, dear child has many names as we say. Many divers long to see and dive with manta rays during a dive. Others recount with delight their encounters with these graceful giants. We here at Scuba Travel often get requests specifically asking to go somewhere where the chance of seeing and diving with manta rays is high, and it's not hard to understand!
This majestic creature can grow to be more than 7 meters between the tips of its wings, but the average manta ray is around 4,5 meters. They live to be 20 years old and can weigh up to 2 tons. One fun thing about the manta ray is that it has an unusually large brain and can learn to recognize different divers. There are two different species of manta rays and a few subspecies. All the animals have a unique pattern and it is therefore possible to identify the different animals. There is a lot of research being done today on these large graceful “angels”. In addition, the smaller but related mobulas are found in many of the world’s oceans and often occur in large schools. They are significantly smaller than their larger cousins, but look large up close and are at least as beautiful and graceful.
