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M. birostris swimming with a diver. The giant oceanic manta ray, giant manta ray, or oceanic manta ray (Mobula birostris) is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae and the largest type of ray in the world.
Manta rays are members of the order Myliobatiformes which consists of stingrays and their relatives. [6] The genus Manta is part of the eagle ray family Myliobatidae, where it is grouped in the subfamily Mobulinae along with the smaller Mobula devil rays. [7]
Manta rays (Manta birostris) taken at Himandhoo Manta Point, Maldives. The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is a small archipelagic state in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 700 kilometres (430 mi) from the Asian continent's mainland.
Ocean Ramsey is a freediver and model. [1] [2] She operates One Ocean Diving, LLC, a company based in Hawaii that facilitates dives with marine life. [3]She gained international media attention for free diving with sharks, including great white sharks, to raise awareness about shark conservation and promote her business.
Zenato began scuba diving at age 22 when traveling to The Bahamas. [4] She started training as a dive instructor and working with sharks in 1995. [5] The same year, she began working for Underwater Explorer's Society (UNEXSO).
Jonathan Bird's Blue World is a family-friendly underwater science/adventure television program.The program is hosted by underwater cinematographer Jonathan Bird.This series airs on public television stations in the US.
Great white shark cages at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico White shark cage diving near Gansbaai in South Africa (2015). A shark-proof cage is a metal cage used by an underwater diver, to observe dangerous types of sharks up close or to harvest seafood in relative safety.
The Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner gave the northern gannet the name Anser bassanus or scoticus in the 16th century, and noted that the Scots called it a solendguse. [4] The former name was also used by the English naturalist Francis Willughby in the 17th century; the species was known to him from a colony in the Firth of Forth and from a stray bird that was found near Coleshill, Warwickshire.