Saturday, January 13, 2007

Manta gigante Manta birostris


disc width at birth about 4 feet (1.2 metres); maximum disc width 22 feet (6.7 metres), possibly larger (reported to widths of up to 30 feet or 9.1 metres), maximum recorded weight 3 100 pounds (1 400 kilograms).
THE DIVER IS VERY CLOSE TO THE MANTA, THIS IS NOT A PERSPECTIVE ILLUSSION, THIS IS A BIG ANIMAL
This huge animal can be seen if in and arround the Los Cabos Area, this mantas come to find cleaning stations and love bubles of the divers, don't you miss the oportunity to see something like this, and remember not to touch this animals and to help keep clean our beautiful sea.
A gigantic devilray with gracefully sculpted, falcate pectoral 'wings', paddle-like cephalic lobes projecting forward from the front of the head (actually extensions of the pectoral fins, supported by radial cartilages), and a very broad, rectangular mouth at the end of the head (a mouth type known as 'terminal'), pebble-like teeth in the lower jaw but not the upper.

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Blogger Big Dave on Sports said...

That is a ridiculously big manta! Let the demise of the Croc Hunter serve as warning. Did you by chance see the "Monster Quest" where they went searching for monster squid in the Sea of Cortez? Pretty cool stuff, simply from a diving perspective.

I was there this summer and tried to get in the water, but inclement weather kept me back. Stayed at ME Cabo thought which pretty much saved my trip

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