FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Business owners, professionals join campaign to restrict international trade on endangered shark and ray species RIO DE JANEIRO, February 25th - Diving industry stakeholders from around the world have joined forces to demand urgent international measures to stall the continued global decline of shark and ray populations, and released a manifesto prior...

Article By Andy Sallmon and Allison Vitsky Sallmon Spoiled for choice in the mantas' realm Exhilarated and starving, we pulled off our gear as the divemaster began the roll call. With all passengers accounted for, the boat captain started the motor and headed toward the resort, where lunch awaited our group of hungry divers. We...

We experimented today with the shark calling bottle trick and a box of tuna heads over the infinite blue depths under the reef wall at Big Bend. The rest of the dive group was hanging above us with cameras in hand. Our plan was to give it 15-20 minutes and turn the show into a...

Das Prozedere kennt jeder: Aufs Boot springen, ab zum Tauchplatz, ins Wasser, zurück zur Tauchbasis - und dann ist die Gemeinschaft in alle vier Himmelsrichtungen verstreut... Dank der Tatsache, dass wir Hotel und Tauchbasis unter einem Dach vereinen und es generell relaxt zugeht, hatte ich schon immer den Eindruck, dass das Manta Ray Bay Resort...

Everybody knows the procedure: onto the boat, off to the dive spot, into the water, back to the dive center, and eventually everybody's scattered to the four winds. With both hotel and dive center located under one roof and the relaxed mood, I have always felt that Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers is...

Gestern waren wir unterwegs im Süden um Blauwasser-Tauchgänge zu unternehmen. Unsere Ziele waren klar: transparentes Wasser, Tiefe und Colins Wasserflaschen-Trick mit dem wir Großfisch anlocken wollten. Wir waren zu Fünft auf dem Boot Eagle Ray unterwegs und nicht zu knapp mit Vorfreude ausgestattet. Den ersten Versuch starteten wir an der Südspitze bei Yap Caverns. Beim...

Today we hit clean water for a smooth ride all the way down south for dive in the blue. We were looking for clear blue water, depth and an opportunity to call in pelagics with Colin's water bottle trick. We set out on Eagle Ray as a 5-pack and all equally eager to ride the current....

Heute waren wir in der Lagune tauchen. Der Wind sorgte für raue Bedingungen am Außenriff, also haben wir beschlossen, im geschützten Innenriff zu bleiben. Auch, weil unsere Gruppe von Gästen aus Deutschland an den anderen Tagen der Woche das ganze Tauchmenü goutiert hat, von Mantas und Haien bis hin zu Blauwassertauchgängen an den Wänden. Am...

Today, we're lagoon diving. The wind makes for a rough outer reef final dive day boat ride, on a Friday no less. We kept it inside this morning. Our group of guests from Germany received the whole dive menu during their week, from mantas and sharks to ripping blue water wall dives and, this afternoon,...

Nicht weniger als drei Mal in Folge bekamen wir auf der boot Besuch von MantaFest-Gewinnerin Anke Rohrbach. In Yap stellte sie unter Beweis, dass sie eine exzellente Fotografin ist - die Profis Marty Snyderman, Frank Schneider, Masa Michishiro und Ray Bullion waren sich da einig - und in Deutschland zeigte sich, dass sie bei der...

Not less than three times in a row did we get visited by last year's MantaFest winner Anke Rohrbach during the boot show. While she proved to be an excellent photographer - professionals Marty Snyderman, Frank Schneider, Masa Michishiro and Ray Bullion fully agreed - she is not any worse when it comes to delicious...

Was boarding my flight to Chicago and saw the plane.  Had just come from dinner with our good friend Patricia Hillebrand, was going to be picked up in Dallas by my brother Patrick and my wife's name is Patricia and she was born on St. Patrick's day so seemed pretty natural to be "riding" St....