Get amazed by the Kona Manta Ray night dive

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Name divesite:	Kona Manta Ray Night Dive
Depth:	5-20ft (1-6m)
Visibility:	1-10ft (0-3m)
Accessibility:	Boat
Time to visit:	All year long, best at its leeward side
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Most tours will offer this experience as a day package, including two dives. This dive site is also full of marine life other than mantas of course.

The crew will start this dive. They place lights on the ocean floor aiming upwards. Plankton is attracted by this light and the plankton will attract the Mantas. As thick clouds of these microscopic animals enjoy the lights, manta rays come to feed. Not only plankton but also thousands of minuscule shrimp-like organisms are attracted to the light as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, and eels that can be found out hunting.
With your own light you will dive down, sitting all in circles next to the lights, waiting for the mantas to swim over your head. The dive is not more than this. Sitting there, so actually not diving at all, and enjoying this big fiest of the Manta Rays. Seeing how they swallow all that plankton and how they swim gracefully around us. Some tour operators take a short dive to search for Eels hunting.

Mantas use their large pectoral fins or 'wings' to move through the water when feeding. The cephalic fins or 'horns' direct the flow into its mouth and water passes through the gills. There they have fine hair, filtering out tiny plankton and other microscopic food. Allthough they are huge, they have never been seen attacking divers. So diving with these huge annimals is one of the safest dives you can do.

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