Want to learn how to capture split images? Steven Miller with Ikelite Photo School will be hosting advanced workshops on shooting split images at this year's Manta Fest photography festival. We will have special photographic dive plans that will provide participants with the opportunity to shoot exactly what we learn in the workshops and bring home...

Welcome to Yap Caverns - our best wall diving, swim-throughs and macro shooting. These photos were taken on one dive this afternoon when I hopped on a third-tank boat last-minute. No matter how you do the Caverns, it's usually good, and it generally gives you everything but the cleaning manta rays, from big to small. I always...

This post is about sharks, specifically photographing sharks at Vertigo, for our latest manta news, check our our manta mania Manta Mania 2016 trip report and behind the scenes write-ups. Now, back to Vertigo. Here's 5 reasons to come back to Yap using just one dive site and the most consistent of all things here...

Yap is one of those rare and interesting places in our world with something unique to experience. This week it's hanging out with professional conservationists who present their research and share their information to grow awareness and create scientific communities out of divers, local people and business - and party in the name of saving...

Manta Mania 2016 brought in a big group of enthusiastic divers to learn about mantas, dive with mantas and interact these creatures with the world's leading manta scientists. The action was from breakfast until well after happy hour - our daily schedule packed in several dives, a classroom workshop and evening presentations at the Crow's Nest. The...

Texto de: B_rad Quem poderia imaginar que mesmo com a alta do dólar iria ficar mais barato mergulhar na Micronésia em 2016? Pois é. O Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers está festejando seus 30 anos de atividades. Pra comemorar, estamos oferecendo 30% A MAIS de tudo o que temos para nossos visitantes - 30%...

Durante o PADI Festival 2015 em São Paulo e em muitas consultas que os amigos mergulhadores nos fazem, sempre surge a pergunta: "o que mais há para ver em Yap além das mantas?" Bem, essa seleção das fotos vencedoras de nosso evento anual de imagens, Manta Fest, dá uma bela ideia da diversidade natural E...

Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers is celebrating 30 years in business. We're offering 30% more of everything - 30% more sharks, 30% more mantas, 30% more of everything Yap! Manta Ray Bay Resort, Yap Divers and the Acker family welcome you to celebrate our 30th anniversary with a this special offer all year...

Best of Show Dive Damai 7-day liveaboard trip - $7,500 grand prize: Jim Decker Best of Class dSLR Manta Ray Bay 7-day dive and hotel package - $1,450: Jim Decker People, Land & Culture 1st Place - dSLR Diver Design Titanium Jewelry: Judy Bennett People, Land & Culture 2nd Place - dSLR Mares EOS 7D...

Here's some topside shooting action and the photographic scenarios that are available here in Yap all year and a special shoot setup for the first time for this year's Manta Fest. One of the very special things about Yap is that the culture is real and it's very much alive. One of the most colorful...

We kicked off our annual photographer party with old and new friends, great weather and excellent diving conditions. This marks the start of two weeks of custom dive plans, photography workshops and one-on-one training with some of the best-in-the-world shooters who come here to help you grow your skills in and out of the water....

Kids Sea Camp family divers week in Yap went off with some of the year's best animal interactions, weather and the biggest surprise in almost 30 years of diving here. We kicked off the diving with a ripping big animal show starting at Vertigo with our friendly school of Black tip and Grey reef sharks....