A beautiful underwater hurricane 🌀 of gorgeous manta rays. So many different individuals come together around the moon phases in this special ( & gratefully also protected) place near @reethibeachresort I was extremely careful to use my shark spotting skills anytime I made my way to the ocean floor so as to be careful not to kick any mantas who were not shy of swimming within inches of us whenever we stopped on the surface ❤️ @juansharks &/or I will share a cool perspective from below of a watery sky 🌌 full of mantas ✨ Grateful to have also encountered dolphins being followed by a small shark....& later another WHALE SHARK 😍 Special thank you to @reethibeachresort for hosting @juansharks & I, I’ll be giving a presentation tomorrow if you’re on island 🏝 👩‍🏫 and Super special thanks to @sideytheshark and his Amazing team @oceanfanaticsreethibeach for taking us out for diving and filming everyday 🤿 & for the wonderful enforcement rangers @baaatollbiospherereserve @br.ranger @inah_shark was there too 🦈😊 & of course my ❤️🦈 @juansharks for being you 😘 Vid by @juansharks If you love mantas, I certainly do 💙 Please help spread awareness about threats to mantas which include: -Targeted fishing for Chinese medicine market for their gill rakers. -Heavy population impacts from commercial fisheries via #bycatch -Plastic ingestion (50% of marine debris comes from commercial fisheries.) Reduce or elimate your personal use of single-use plastics & discard or reuse ♻️ carefully. -Entanglement (640,000 tons of nets, ropes, and other fishing gear is lost or abandoned by commercial fisheries each year, this fishing gear can continue to kill for generations.) -Boat strikes -encourage operators to drive slow in areas where mantas are known to aggregate Learn more from the wonderful team @mantatrust Vid @juansharks Diving with @sideytheshark @inah_shark @oceanfanaticsreethibeach @reethibeachresort