Texto de: B_rad O dia em que você leva seu equipamento macro para o recife é certamente aquele no qual algum grande animal vai dar um show a poucos metros de você. Há uns dias atrás não foi diferente comigo, quando entrei num barco rumo sul para o point de Yap Caverns e paredes adjacentes. Há...

These days the manta diving is exciting. The daily hour at Stammtisch is as good as it gets during this season and lately we've had some ripping times with these guys. Typically these things just glide right over you, behind you and in front of you while getting cleaned. This dive had both, there was...

We're wrapping up this year with some great diving and very diverse international crowd. The new year brings several things, namely great weather and mating mantas as well as the European dive show circuit. Most of the managers are packing up and headed to France, Germany and Switzerland on a business safari. For those of you...

Texto de: Bill Acker Amigos do Mergulho e de Yap,  a fase um de nosso projeto de energia solar fotovoltaica já está completo e produzindo energia limpa para nosso resort. 56 painéis já estão online e produzindo até 13 quilowatts de eletricidade por hora. Nosso projeto terá mais duas fases, e quando completo teremos 224 painéis...

Amigos do Mergulho e de Yap, temos demorado mais do que o normal para postar as novidades de Yap em Português, mas esperamos retomar nosso ritmo até o final do ano, esperando que mais pessoas possam visitar nossa ilha do coração e suas maravilhas sub em 2014! Segue aqui mais um texto de B_rad sobre...

If you have loved ones who will be in Yap this Christmas, why not give them a unique present this year? We make it very easy for you to give a food basket, as all you need to do is e-mail Numie Acker at numie@mantaray.com and she will do the rest. We accept Visa, MasterCard,...

The manta action is getting stronger with the mating behavior. During this season a typical cleaning station experience is multiple animals with a one-track mind. This means that they care less about divers and more about impressing their would-be partner. Big females glide out of the vis, closely followed by multiple male rays and keep...

The day you take your macro system to the reef is certainly the day that a big animal show is going to go down 15 feet away from you. Yesterday was no different for me. I jumped on a boat headed south to the Caverns site and adjacent walls. There's all kinds of stuff going...

Phase one of our solar power project is now complete and producing clean energy for the resort. 56 panels are now on-line and are capable of producing 13 kilowatts of power an hour. There will be two more phases to the project and when finished, we will have something on the order of 224 panels...

Julie Hartup is back on island for Thanksgiving week, more manta research and data collecting as well as some general yapping around. The Manta Ray Bay helps this project with daily ID shots and maintaining a manta interaction logbook. Each time a manta is encountered on a dive, if possible, an ID shot is snapped...

We're always more than happy to do something special for our friends.  This time it was Daniel and his wife Marion celebrating her 50th birthday on their recent Yap dive trip. They wanted to have a toast with everybody at the hotel and hosted a social call in the Nautical Weaver Bar. Detlef prepared a...

The whole island has been buzzing with divers - there were about 7 boats running when this week kicked off. For Yap, that's a crowd. The good thing is that those 7 boat groups get to share over 100 miles of barrier reef. Things are running day and night and some Aussies are taking 4...