For imaging, the trick is to get one of the “dancers” to leave the “stage” and come in close to you. Sitting on the sea floor with a large group, while watching the mantas dance in front of you, feels like being at a ballet show instead of being on a dive. The guides want all the divers to have negative buoyancy and sit or kneel down on the sand.
The dive guides position the hordes of divers in a circle around the large light on the sandy sea bottom. With all this light and the crowd, it is like doing a night dive in Times Square in New York City! Snorkelers hold on to the floats to watch the show from the surface. Usually, there are floats with lights pointing down. The dive operator deploys a large light on the sea bottom, pointing up. Both Aquatic Life Divers and Jack’s Diving Locker do not overbook, and both have comfortable boats with room for photo gear. Even if you normally avoid this kind of diving, it is worth putting up with the crowd to get fascinating images. The boats are usually crowded with divers and many go to the same location. There are many operations that run manta night diving and snorkeling trips. At night, light attracts the zooplankton, and the plankton attracts the mantas. Mantas swim with their mouth open and take in large amounts of zooplankton. Just like all manta rays, they are filter feeders. This is the second largest species of mantas and can have a fin span of up to 5.5m (18ft). They spend their lives in the coastal waters of Hawaii. These are reef mantas and, unlike other species, these mantas do not migrate. The manta rays in Kona waters belong to the Mobula alfredi species.
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