In the darkness nearly a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, where the pressure would crush a human and temperatures hover just above freezing, a creature with wings wider than a car glides through the ...

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Kailua-Kona, Hawaii — One big step off the boat and into the dark. When I hit the water, I feel all the familiar feelings, the ocean seeping into my wetsuit, the frantic bubbles on my face, the ...

A manta ray dive boat ran aground Thursday night approximately 100 yards south of the Honokohau Harbor entrance, sending five people to the hospital. Five of the people were extricated and taken to ...

Yap, a tiny atoll straddling the equator about 4,000 kilometres southwest of Hawaii, is known for one thing: manta rays. About 100 of the giant, bat-like fish, which average between three and four ...

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The interest in reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) from the scientific community is growing in reaction to the major decline of populations around the world due to unsustainable fishing pressure. Also ...

In “The Last Dive,” director Cody Sheehy follows Terry Kennedy, an ex-Hell’s Angel-turned manta ray conservationist, on a personal journey to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. After a stint in jail, Kennedy, a ...

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I am underwater, staring back at an eye as big as a golf ball. Dark and limpid and knowing, the eye fixes on me from two feet away as the manta ray swoops by. For an instant I can look straight into ...