Reef mantas come to Manta Ridge for the same reason divers do: the current. It brings the plankton they feed on and the cleaner fish that attend them, and on a strong tide the ridge can hold a queue of animals.
Eight visited on this dive. Shooting into the sun from below, the aperture closed down until the animal became a shape and the light behind it a disc.
Two of the eight crossed the sun together, and the wings of one read against the surface as a black silhouette. Manta Ridge, Dampier Strait, Raja Ampat.
A manta ray in silhouette, the Dampier Strait.
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Eight lines from the dive
Photographed in Dampier Strait
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