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Flying mantas!
Now I want honesty here....has anyone ever seen a manta ray breach??? Firsthand...not," I knew a guy once...."
I've read many, many descriptions of mantas breaking the surface a "gliding", but never seen photos or video footage.
Should this be put down to urban myth/seafaring yarn?
Anyone?
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Breach
I did when I was a teenager. Dad took me out to an island beach around Clearwater, and there was a girl sailboarding about 100 yards away heading away from us. All of the sudden a manta breached behind her and then disappeared. She never saw it cause I'm sure she would have been spooked.
Obviously quite a site to see because I've never forgotten it. It's wingspan was almost as wide as the board she was on.
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MMMmmm that vid looks more like eagle rays to me. Maybe I was just trying to picture a 4 metre wingspan manta gliding above the water like an albatross.
What with the BBC getting ultra-slow-motion shots of great whites and humpbacks breaching, I just thought the blue planet team might have filmed flying mantas too.
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Yes, it sure doesn't look like mantas to me either.......but then again I've never seen baby mantas.....
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I saw a manta backflip in front of the boat on the way back from a dive site at Byron Bay. Only myself and the skipper saw it... but it was an amazing site... and at least I have a witness.
:) Don
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I saw a manta breach while relaxing on the boat in between diving Manta Bowl in Ticao, Masbate (Philippines). I also saw a fisherman race towards the spot in a failed attempt to harpoon it. Imagine my range of emotion from awe to anger.
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We see Manta breach often in Puerto Vallarta. No urban myth but exactly why is unknown. Some say it is to clean sea lice off their backs.
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yes I have seen mantas breach..right off the jetties here but they are small ones 2'-4' across (and I know the difference between stingray/leopard rays so I can say it was a manta)
haven't ever seen a big one breach but my dads says he has so I guess it does happen
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