Manta festival in Black Rock

1/9/2013

Octopus and colorful soft coral

30/12/2013, a lovely day to remember at Black Rock.
Lost in the middle of a clear ocean, Black Rock offers a great visibility and a fantastic spots for big and small creatures. Of course when we are lucky like today, surrounded by dozens of Manta rays, its hard to concentrate on the smaller inhabitants…
The rock is covered by soft coral, bright red and purple, yellow polips explode everywhere and several schools of fish obstruct our view: surgeon fishs, barracudas, glass fish, rainbow runners. Move on, we want to see the mantas!

This is truly an unforgettable dive which we had to film, mantas starts after 1'27''

While loved around the world for their charismatic beauty, graceful dance and inquisitive behavior toward divers Mantas are still fished around the world and truly in danger of extinction.
Read more about Mantas protections: Matatrust

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Frog fishs and co in Mergui Archipelago

1/9/2013

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29th of December, Burma opens again a wide range of wonder to our masked eyes...

Our first day is around High Rock and what we call dragon island for its specific shape. We find a frog fish hiding in its sea of sponges and so well camouflaged.
Other small wonderful things we spotted this days are colorful nudibranch, porcupine fish and cleaner pipe fish.

Cleaner pipe fish are so difficult to take in picture because they live in cracks and hate the light.

We also have a wide variety of flat worms around here, they are absolutely stunning when they are swimming, yes, they can swim and that's their fastest mean of movement.
We see moray eels every day here but some of my favorites are the Giant Moray and honeycomb moray. which on is yours?

While up to 4 metres, nurse sharks are gentle creatures eating crabs, shrimps and lobsters, numerous around here which they suck in from cracks.
One of the best experience in the South of Mergui Archipelago are the numerous cave systems to explore around here and which often host nurse sharks and rays. This day we were blessed by the presence of a sleepy nurse shark.

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The Smiling Seahorse has been running dive cruises from Ranong since 2012.
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