Manta Ray Bay has been transformed into a Yap-size Top Gun academy of the underwater photo world - the best of the best from around the world are here. Presenting from the United States we have Marty Snyderman, from Europe, Frank Schneider and Japan we have Masa Michishiro. For the next couple weeks Bill will...

This is what it's looking like between the dock and the reef this week. When it's this good, the 25 minute boat rides could be longer and nobody would mind. One of the nicest features of Yap is the relaxed diving pace on uncrowded dive sites with small boat groups. Today was no exception and...

This is the Manta encounter of the year, and a Yap Divers exclusive story and why. Bill and his team have been doing this almost 20 years longer than anyone else on the Island and this week that fact can be demonstrated. Manta Rays feeding in clear shallow water, 25 minutes from the hotel room......

Anyone know what day it is? Things are firing over here, it's a full house, full dock, full boats and a full reef... with Mantas that is. Stewart donated his photos from yesterday where he and his wife were in a Yap Manta ball at the Stomfitch cleaning station. This is about as up close...

In July we had the great good fortune to play a role in the wedding of Evelyn & Steve VanAntwerp who came to dive with the Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers and during a break from diving, got married. The newlyweds were part of the Executive Scuba Group led by Ted & Pam...

Here's how to kill an afternoon after the morning dives, tell Bill you want to go catch fish. The flagship dive boat, Popou, was quickly converted into a private charter fishing boat and parked on the dock awaiting anglers. Bill captained the boat, Detlef set up the gear and Derek was in charge of having...

This morning the place to be, was on the reef. Just as we warmed up and dried off, weather-wise, it turned wet, grey and just plain nasty out. The good news was, it doesn't rain underwater and there's a boat captain paid enough to sit on the surface chewing betel nut and getting poured on...

This afternoon on a 3rd dive, Alex took us on a Pacific side reef tour that gave us a little surprise. We rolled off the boat together and turned over to see 100+ feet of vis and a swarm of humphead wrasse on our way down the reef slope. After gliding down to about 90...

Yap Divers and the Manta Ray Bay Hotel celebrate 25 years as a PADI member. Regional Manager Michael Janssen is on the island to personally thank and congratulate Bill and Patricia on their silver PADI membership anniversary. In the photo is Patricia, Bill, Michael and Jan the dive op manager. That's 25 years of being...

Things have been busy here at the resort on the video front. We have Jim and Patricia testing out brand new Sony HD video cameras with Amphibco housings out on the reef. There's some new Manta Ray Bay promo material in the works, some of it I'll leak here before it flies back to Michigan...

Part of the Island's charm are the stories and folklore about Stone Money. The other day diving O'Keefe's Passage, Gordon showed me some encrusted buried treasure. Stone Money is still valued and traded today. The value is based on each piece's story about it's journey to Yap. The harder it was to get here, the...

Thanks Bruce for your comments on the Lap around Yap post... he gave the ole, "Yeah, yeah, show me what we really come for..." - Roger that. Today we're looking at some quick selections pulled right off of Marc's Nikon D300s. He was nice enough to walk his camera down to the photo shop and...