Tag: freedivers

6 Hours of Filming Every Day is Hard Work!!

Post author By Nautilus Staff
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Post date 2008-03-14

By Nautilus Staff on March 14th, 2008 in Archive

Over the years, we have seen that the manta rays at San Benedicto seem to like to interact with scuba divers, coming back and making eye contact and as divemasters we have felt that they will always single us out and make a close pass as if they recognize us. There are three models/freedivers on this trip who have been diving down and swimming with the giant manta rays and one of them has definitely been singled out by two of the mantas that we encountered. Every time she dives down the mantas will turn into her and circle around her and get very close. The other two divers, one male and one female, are getting are far less interest from the mantas. Hmmm…

Tags ashes and snow, freedivers, freediving, giant manta rays, Giant Mantas, gloria, manta rays, Mantas, San Benedicto, The Boiler

Giant Mantas Starring in Ashes and Snow

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2008-03-05

By Nautilus Staff on March 5th, 2008 in Archive

Our first priority was to remove the fishing net that was caught on the Boiler and had been found on our last trip. The crew of the Solmar V had done a good job of removing a large part of the net which made our job a lot easier. As we were finishing up a pod of dolphin and two mantas showed up. We like to think that they were thanking us for our work. The first day of the photo shoot was auspicious. Two giant mantas chose to interact with us, one kept coming back to the camera and the divers, turning and swimming loops around us as the film team and freedivers got used to the conditions and the interaction.