Wonderful Manta Ray Dive at Kurali Manta Point Post retirement dive #818 February 13, 2025

The first dive of February 13 was at a site called Kurali Point. Antoine did an excellent (as always) job of briefing us on the dive plan and what to expect, and hope for, on the dive. In this case most of the dive was to be the three dive teams with their dive masters forming a line at the right distance from a prominent coral head which is a well visited Manta Ray cleaning station. The current was small enough on this dive to allow us to simply let some air out of our BCs and peacefully kneel in the sand and wait for the Mantas to appear. It worked just as hoped! Antoine giving the dive briefing, below:

We formed up a line and kneeled in the sand and waited for the show to begin, which it soon did, below:

Above: Antoine gets an early Manta visit Below: A Manta crosses above the coral head cleaning station

As the Reef Manta visits wound down, our string of divers were visited by a confident, beautiful Lionfish, below:

My first ever Rock Manta! Below:

I had to photo another sea anemone with anemone fish, below:

Audry gets a photo of a really cool Stellate Puffer, and then I got my own shot, below:

Too see more pictures from this dive, please go to: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P2b8x1kKKcLQMqKe8 Two more dives to go on the 13th!