Swim with Manta Rays

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Duration: 3h
Location: Honokohau Marina, 74-380 Kealakehe Parkway, Kailua Kona, HI 96740, United States | Kailua Kona, United States


Category: Adventures

Highlights:
Amazing up-close encounter with gentle, elegant manta rays
Sunset boat ride along the Kona coast's palm-fringed beaches
Chance to safely snorkel or dive with rays in Keahole Bay
Over 200 resident rays up to 20 feet (6 m) in length
Guaranteed manta ray sightings in a regular feeding area

Inclusions:
Guided manta ray excursion
Snorkeling gear
Wetsuit and dive light

Description:

Come face-to-face with the gentle giants residing off the Kona Coast. Choose to dive or snorkel and watch how the massive manta rays, weighing up to 3,000 pounds (1,360 kg), gracefully swim around in the illumination provided by your dive light.

Leave the Honokohau harbor behind and travel 20 minutes up the Kona coast as the sun sinks down over the horizon. The experienced staff shares tips and instruction and gets you fitted with wetsuits and water gear prior to arriving, so you have plenty of time to actually jump in and swim among the rays.

Once at the manta viewing area, grab your dive light and jump into the ocean. Hold onto a flotation raft as you get your bearings and prepare for the experience of a lifetime. As the light from the boat shines out into the darkened tropical waters, the phytoplankton that mantas feed on swarm toward the glow. Watch as the graceful aquatic creatures swim around you with mouths wide open, feasting on plankton during this stunning underwater ballet.

At depths of only 30 feet (9 m), you can clearly see the ocean floor and observe how the rays appear from the darkness. With their calm nature and nothing that bites or stings, manta rays are one of the safest and most fascinating animals you can encounter in the wild.