Wednesday 24^th February, was Scuba Safari with Bill Acker day at the Manta Ray Bay Resort.  This event has really taken off, so much so we needed to take out Popou, our largest dive boat to carry all our guests.

Scuba Safari is a great way for guests to get to dive with Bill, the pioneer of diving in Yap.  He has discovered more than 50 sites here in these beautiful islands, so this is a wonderful way to get the spirit of discovery and group camaraderie all in one.   Bill tries to use these Safaris to search out potential new dive sites as well as visiting some of the more rarely dived areas.  He also doesn’t neglect some of the more famous sites so the weather and water conditions determine where these Safaris go each week.

Today 15 intrepid divers took to the Pacific for a three tank dive with lunch provided from the Mnuw; they were, Bill & Vicki Wells from Belmont CA, Johan & Maria Edelsvard from Taby Sweden, Andrew Revel from Heboken NJ, Brian Buzzeli from Pennsylvania, Reindhart Arnd & Ursula Nuutinen from Berlin Germany, Joe Becker from Beaverton OR, Craig & Colleen Barlett from Vermont, Alex & Dolores Sastre from Buenos Aires Argentina and Kriss Kirchoff from Libertyville IL.

This gang of divers joined Bill assisted by Chomed, one of our Dive Masters and Willy, the skipper of Popou.  They did Magic Kingdow, Spanish Walls (actually began North to see what that part of the reef was like) and the day culminated with Yap Caverns/Lion Fish Wall as a combination.  There were smiles all around both before and after the trip with the only disappointed people being those that were leaving the night before.