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...

We have a real mystery brewing on the island. A couple days ago our guest Eric from Bakersfield, CA brought back a photograph of a fish, that so far, has not been identified. [caption id="attachment_1759" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Unidentified Mystery Fish[/caption] The whole 8 pound fish almanac came out more than once and we aren't any...

Check out John's form in the water this morning. It turns out that my SD card caught a nice dive guide example moment and thought I'd share. All of this went down as we dropped onto the reef just outside the Channel and started down the corral slope in a sandbox. John stopped the guests...

I'm happy to be the one to pass this information. I've been checking this place out and sure enough it's the real deal island paradise. First, let's cover some basics about getting around and being in Yap. Saying hi - "Mogethin" is the standard greeting, it has a little pronunciation spin on it that will...