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    The Manta Blog

    Here you can keep up-to-date with the latest events, trips, news, and everything else going on at The Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers.

    Magical Manta Moment

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on January 22, 2013
    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...
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    You Won’t Believe This – But

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on January 20, 2013
    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...
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    Super Size Friday

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on January 11, 2013
    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...
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    Shark Encounters

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on January 7, 2013
    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...
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    Award Winning Yap Media

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on January 2, 2013
    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...
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    Welcoming 2013

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on January 2, 2013
    Manta Ray Bay Resort and the Mnuw were decked out in local attire for the New Year welcoming celebration. The entire walkway from the street was lined in organic decorations and light ropes leading to the entertainment and, of course, the bottomless buffet.   Detlef's crew worked all day preparing fresh Tuna poke, blackened Yellow-fin...
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    Bill Acker’s Shark Feed

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on December 30, 2012
    Not much has changed since I left, or since 1986, when Bill invented diving and tourism here, for that matter... this is how the guys kick the energy level up a few notches out at Vertigo. This is a Texas style shark feeding, that happens anytime anyone wants, out on the Philippine Sea reef. The way Bill...
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    Happy Year End

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on December 27, 2012
    Hello again, we're back with the Yap status reports (finally). I'm happy to be posting this after a couple of months off island... here's my update and what today looks like at Bill's op. After surviving the end of the world, a whole bunch of people showed up ready to dive and we have action...
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    It’s European Show Season Once Again

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on December 20, 2012
    Myself (Bill Acker) along with colleagues Detlef Trux and Jan Sledsens are once again preparing to depart Yap and head for the colder climates of Europe to exhibit at some of the major dive shows there. Jan will travel first as he will go home to see his family for a few days and will...
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    Hands Free Yap

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on December 12, 2012
    Bill made it even more convenient to dive Yap. After breakfast on the Mnuw you can walk to the boat with only your sunblock to meet your gear... all of it. This upgrade came in the form of a few dozen Manta Ray branded Armor dive bags and a new luxury guest policy that says...
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    A GREAT Thanksgiving week

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on November 29, 2012
    [caption id="attachment_2825" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="Snorkeling Miil Channel"][/caption] I just had the pleasure of diving through a brilliant Thanksgiving week at Manta Ray. Take a look at some of the highlights of the past week here: CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES Special thanks to MRBH's Louise for diving with the mantas with me and Hursie for snorkeling...
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    Yap – Tauchen mit Mantas, Betelnüsse und mehr

    Posted by gm@mantaray.com on November 16, 2012
    Es gibt nicht viele Orte auf der Welt von denen man sagen kann, dass sich die lange Anreise mehr als gelohnt hat. Yap, Teil der Federal States of Micronesia (FSM), liegt inmitten des Pazifischen Ozeans und gehört definitiv dazu.   Die Insel Yap ist etwa 18km lang und 3km breit, ca. 1300 km von Neuguinea...
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