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....

Liebe Schweizer Freunde, unser Basenleiter Jan Sledsens wird von morgen bis einschließlich Sonntag am Schöner tauchen-Stand auf der FESPO zu finden sein. Viel Spaß Euch allen in Zürich!

"Es muss so Mitte der 80er-Jahre gewesen sein als wir in Yap waren. Da saß eine Frau vor dem Flughafen und kaute Betelnüsse. Sie fragte uns was wir hier wollten und wir sagten ihr, dass wir gern tauchen gehen würden. Sie war sehr freundlich und meinte nur ,Ich kenne da jemanden, steigt in den Wagen"....

"At some point in the mid-1980s, we arrived in Yap and there was a woman sitting in front of the airport chewing a beetlenut. We told her we want to go diving and she was very friendly and said 'I know somebody - jump in the car.' She brought us to a building that was...

Hallo zusammen, jetzt, wo die boot vorüber ist, möchten wir uns bei allen bedanken für Euren Besuch. Wir haben uns sehr über die vielen Gespräche und Euer positives Feedback gefreut. Das gilt natürlich auch für die kleinen Präsente, die wir nicht erwartet haben und die das Messe-Leben umso schöner machen. In den vergangenen zehn Tagen...

Dear everybody, Now that this year's boot show is over, we want to say THANK YOU for coming over to visit us at our booth to all our friends, repeaters, future guests, professional partners and just everybody interested in Manta Ray Bay & Yap. We are really, really grateful for your feedback and the wonderful...

This is one of those moments that you never forget... the day a Yap Manta Ray gave you the full eye contact investigation pass in epic slow motion. This is my first sequence of photos that look like the Manta Ray came to the cleaning station to watch the humans - this Ray over-delivered on...

A lot of stories in Texas begin with the words “Sumbitch, you won’t believe this – but” and then the tails tend to grow from there but what I am about to relay to you is absolutely true and it happened on my way from Yap to Düsseldorf for the BOOT Show.  I left an...

This is a three-tank day and how to add and-on an extra serving of Yap diving. Bill calls it a Super Size, which means lunch is served onboard with three dives and you're back before happy hour. This is everything but the happy hour part. Yap Corner This is the M'il Channel outer reef wall on...

Thanks to the Manta Ray Sanctuary program, started by Bill and backed by the State govt, all big animals benefit from the habitat protection. The lagoon and mangrove areas are important for the sharks, as well as the Manta Rays. Yap is a big animal ecological reserve and the result is a healthy population of...

The movie The Hunt, which won a 2nd place prize in the Australasia International Film Shoot-Out, was fuly filmed on Yap with Yap Divers at the Manta Ray Bay Resort. Elisabeth Lauwerys, took 1st place finish for her movie, Blue, in the Narrated Video category and second place in Creative Video for her film, The...