Top dive spots await just off these Caribbean islands’ shores

With its year-round sun and excellent visibility, the waters of the Caribbean offer some of the best scuba diving in the ...
Hawaii Magazine

Embark on a Rare Aquatic Adventure and Come Face to Fin with Majestic Mantas

“They really are the gentle giants of the ocean,” says Shari Sicsko, co-owner of Kona Snorkel Trips, which offers its world-famous manta ray night snorkel year-round. “Everybody’s really passionate ...
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Giant manta ray slowly cruises past scuba divers in Galapagos Islands

Giant manta rays congregate in the Galapagos Islands more than any other place in the world. It's one of the best places to have a magical encounter with one of the ocean's most majestic animals. The ...
Tampa Bay Times

After viral manta ray capture, Florida wildlife agency says it will ‘revisit’ policies

In a letter, the head of Florida’s wildlife agency said rule changes would be considered next year. A manta ray is sighted approximately 14 nautical miles offshore Cape Canaveral in Florida on ...
Orlando Sentinel

Three Florida manta rays captured for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one died, records show

Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the rare creatures for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one of which died in captivity, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Identify a New Manta Ray Species, Just the Third Known in the World

The new species lives in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, from the eastern United States down to Brazil. Bryant Turffs Andrea Marshall has dedicated her life to studying manta rays ...
Forbes

The Manta Ray That Eluded Science For 15 Years

A Mobula yarae, or Atlantic manta ray, with more vivid colors. For more than 15 years, Marine Megafauna Foundation co-founder Dr. Andrea Marshall suspected that one of the animals she was seeing in ...
People

Giant Endangered Manta Ray Roughly Taken from Florida Waters to Be Put Into Captivity with Official Approval

“I mean, he was in pain. That animal was in pain," a witness alleged of the aquatic animal A dolphin touring company in Florida witnessed an endangered giant manta ray being taken from its natural ...
Orlando Sentinel

Florida allowed capture of threatened giant manta ray for overseas aquarium

Denis Richard watched five men heave a giant manta ray from the waters off Panama City Beach and plop it into a pool on their boat deck. “Let him go,” he yelled. “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves ...