Story & Photos by Tim Rock Last nite a new guest who calls himself Santa Claus had a nice birthday aboard the Mnuw. Sporting a long, white Santa-like beard it is easy to see why he has that moniker. Today Santa got the presents as he was circled by mantas at the new cleaning station […]

I’d say it’s all the cleaning station’s fault: Five days of constant manta encounters take their too, especially if they take place in between 12 and 30 ft  depth and allow bottom times of 80+ minutes. Only in the afternoons, when the rays tend to be less active, the boats went out to different spots […]

The arrival of a lot more guests for week 2 of Manta Fest saw a few more boats leaving the docks

Tim Rock has loaded some of the galleries of the first week of Manta Fest 2011 online. CLICK HERE to see it.

Underwater photographers are one of a kind… “Well, we got our mantas yesterday, now let’s move on to the sharks“, was the general opinion on the jetty in the morning. Said and done. Half an hour later guests and photo hosts plunged into the water at Vertigo and into a group of around 20 grey […]

With good weather in his bags, travel journalist Frank Schneider made his way back to Manta Ray Bay Resort in Yap. In contrast to last year when he did a piece for Germany’s “tauchen“ magazine, he returned as one in four supervising professionals and jury member for the international shoot-out, which is co-sponsored by mares, […]

Hi, my name is Martin Wiesneth and I am working for the travel agency Schoener Tauchen in Germany (www.schoener-tauchen.com)   . My current job gives me the opportunity to get in touch with a lot of our long-time partners, such as Bill Acker and the staff at Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers, diving all […]

Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and to mark this special occasion we are discounting our rates! Take advantage of our midyear anniversary and save big from June 2011-October 2011. We are discounting ($200/person) all Hotel/Dive Packages of 7 nights or longer.  These packages include Room, 10% […]

Marta Lewandowski has been working with owner Robi Frommenwiler for more than a year to put a group of Swiss divers into Yap and Palau.  Marta, who has been here numerous times and is a personal favorite of mine, as well as our staff, was to be the group leader.  At the last minute, she […]

Mr. Takashi Ito and his wife Kyoko Ito owner of Kohama Island Dive Shop (Ito Service) in Okinawa, Japan has returned to Yap and among other things celebrated a birthday with us.  This is Mr. & Mrs. Itos’ 26th visit to Yap and the Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers.  Ito’s diving love is […]

Congratulations to Mr. Guntram Vogelsgesang of Hohenfurch, Germany whose name was drawn from over 550 entries during a ceremony Friday the 4th of February on the S/V Mnuw.  Guntram has been notified that he has won a free 7 night/5 dive day stay at the Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers, Micronesia’s finest dedicated […]

I was touring a group of Hong Kong wholesalers and travel agents around the hotel this week.  They were over here for a week of investigation for the travel industry in Hong Kong and South East Asia.  They had spent the morning with us on a Kayak Tour with our two excellent and very knowledgeable […]