Frank Schneider
New
I just came back from the Mantafest-week at Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers in Yap, Micronesia :: Home at Yap.
We had stunning encounters at the new cleaning station - i made 5 or 6 of my longest dives (of those more or less 2800) ever at that spot - the longest one last 135 minutes.
Why? - well we couldn't leave the mantas!
So couldn't the photographers taking part at the Mantafest-photo-competition, which for I had the honor - together with Marty Snyderman, Tim Rock and Ray Bullion - to be one of the jury-members.
Other dives were together with grey reefsharks and white-tip-reefsharks - as the came as close to the diver's cameras as the mantas did.
So in the end the winners of the categories "mantas and/or sharks, reef scenic, macro and people/land/culture" got stunning prices.
The "Best of show" winner received the new Mares computer Icon HD net ready, the 1. places won a week at the manta ray bay resort including dives, the 2nd places won Mares X-Stream-fins + mask + snoorkel plus a Henderson shorty, the 3rd places more stuff from Henderson.
Even if I cannot partecipate in the contest as a juror - just look at the photos: do I need more reasons to do the same dives again next year?
C u,
Frank
We had stunning encounters at the new cleaning station - i made 5 or 6 of my longest dives (of those more or less 2800) ever at that spot - the longest one last 135 minutes.
Why? - well we couldn't leave the mantas!
So couldn't the photographers taking part at the Mantafest-photo-competition, which for I had the honor - together with Marty Snyderman, Tim Rock and Ray Bullion - to be one of the jury-members.
Other dives were together with grey reefsharks and white-tip-reefsharks - as the came as close to the diver's cameras as the mantas did.
So in the end the winners of the categories "mantas and/or sharks, reef scenic, macro and people/land/culture" got stunning prices.
The "Best of show" winner received the new Mares computer Icon HD net ready, the 1. places won a week at the manta ray bay resort including dives, the 2nd places won Mares X-Stream-fins + mask + snoorkel plus a Henderson shorty, the 3rd places more stuff from Henderson.
Even if I cannot partecipate in the contest as a juror - just look at the photos: do I need more reasons to do the same dives again next year?
C u,
Frank