2010 Kona, Hawaii 73 7

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Night snorkeling with manta rays, on the big island of Hawaii. We booked our tour through Sunlight on Water, and we highly recommend them! We saw between 5-6 manta rays that night ranging in size from 6-10 foot wingspans. The light from our flashlights attracts the plankton which attracts the mantas. There are scuba divers on the bottom of the ocean shining lights upward and the snorkelers were shining lights downward, creating what kind of looks like, to me anyway, an underwater city. Manta rays are harmless animals, they do not have teeth and they do not have stingers. This is something we definitely look forward to doing again! I shot this video using the Flip camera with underwater housing.

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Karleen Kincaid - 11 years ago

Sound like bacon cooking in background

Ivana C - 11 years ago

Love it

Inky Blue - 12 years ago

wow.... thats so amazing! ive snorkled with a school of baby Manta Rays that were feeding near the shore (i even have a video of it) but i was never able to get really close without them getting scared... It was an amazing experience thou

Isaac Craver - 12 years ago

swimming with a fish like that would scare me shitless

kitkat39 - 13 years ago

I am going to have to do this one day!

chris sjafiroeddin - 13 years ago

nice video, i am going to have to do that!

chris sjafiroeddin - 13 years ago

nice video, i am going to have to do that!

kokoaka - 13 years ago

Did that, altho I was one of the divers on the bottom.

Shy Basoc - 13 years ago

I love it! makes me think mantra rays as space ships.. hahahha

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sagar passi - 13 years ago

what is the song?!

Thailand Living - 13 years ago

was this also shot with the canon d10? if yes, that's amazing for a $300 camera.

Mary B - 14 years ago

Great footage underwater! Some of the scenes made me think of the movie The Abyss! Good job!

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