Manta rays

Yeah, there are.

Aren't they manta rays? They are.

They're the Devil Rays, and I don't know if that's...

I don't think there's a Devil Ray.

A Manta Ray, but I'm sure

the Devil Ray is...

They even call them Devil Rays

Yeah, 07, they dropped the Devil out of their name.

I actually preferred it on The Dream, I think because of the individual actors, but it's so immersive.

Being in the balcony was great for that immersive, especially Moana when the grandmother Manta Ray swims around on the ceiling.

Oh, beautiful.

I love

Goldfish have feelings.

Manta rays use facial expressions to greet their mates, and some of them know when it's the weekend.

Some fish bully each other, but all of them seem to learn from each other.

Some of these ideas are quite unsettling for many of us.

Right.

But they s- they can do.

Um, so we're doing some experiments at the moment with, uh, manta rays, which suggests that they're, they're using their cephalic fins, which are the little feeding fins on the front of their face.

We, we think that they're using those to communicate.

Uh, then we're gonna head down the road to the end of the road, uh, to the big, uh, delta o- out of Venice, Louisiana and talk to our friend Captain Louis Rossignol, or The Rock as his buddies call him.

And, uh, The Rock is a specialist in catching a lot of redfish, and, uh, he's got a cool story about seeing some manta rays out on the water and a surprising thing that you might not know if you see some manta rays while you're fishing that you might wanna check for.

So definitely wanna check it out there.

And then he's also gonna talk to us a little bit about how the fall fishing changes in, uh, in Venice, and also give us some tips on catching flounder this time of year.

And man- and manta ray too, huh?

Yeah.

[laughs] Well, we videoed the manta rays.

We didn't try to catch them, but, uh-

So she put that thought aside for a while.

As the group finished up and headed back to shore, someone on the dive boat recommended she come back in the evening to see the manta rays.

So she did.

The Manoray night dive is just highly special.

What happens is that's the natural occurrences.

During the day, plankton photosynthesizes with the sun.

Plankton is what manta rays feed on.

So what happened is when you turn on lights at night in the ocean, plankton still thinks it's the sun and accumulates around lights.

Mantas.

Manta rays.

Manta rays.

I was like, first of all, take my shirt off.

You're swimming with a mantatee.

No, first off, you are.

I'm closer to a mantatee than what we swam with, which are manta rays.

Yeah.

That includes search and rescues, electric grid restoration, emergency debris clearance and large-scale generators for hospitals and other critical services.

In Kona, the weather was so calm tonight that some Manta Ray tour operators carried on with their tours.

We saw

them on the Keauhou Bay live cam.

First, we noticed the lights from the Manta Ray tours.

Then we saw visitors hanging out casually, so we called around.

One tour operator told us he canceled as a precaution, but with only small white caps in the ocean and light rain, boating conditions were good to go, so other operators went for it.