Get up close and personal with Hawaii's manta rays as you go on a night dive with underwater photographer Wayne Levin. Explore the western waters off of Hawaii's Big Island and swim with Kona's otherworldly manta rays.

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Manta Ray Diving in Kona with Wayne Levin Hawaii, the islands of Aloha, stories of Hawaii. Manta Ray Diving with Wayne Levin Photographs they show me something different, something I did not expect. Those are the ones I really loved, I have always been really connected with the ocean. Wayne, Underwater photographer I use to photograph all kinds of animals in the water, whales and fish and dolphins black and white will be abstracted it, what look like hazy, turbulent water became maybe clouds, it became much more and bivalent. When I first became interested in that is at the Monarchy beach hotel, they just seemed like creatures from another planet, when I watch them from the shore I went I do not know, it would be really cool to get in the water with them. Kona is a really a great place for snorkeling and diving, you are in the wind shadow of Monalowads so you have really nice calm water. Swimming with anorays is very accessible you do not have to be a certified diver, you can be a snorkeler and be on the surface and the experience is equally wonderful. When you first see Mantas under water they are so large, there could be 12, 14 foot wing spans but you know they are very gentle and really harmless. They do not have stinger like stingrays or eagle rays and there is nothing really to worry about. It is kind the like being out in space and you are flying and you are floating weightlessly in a block void but then you are eliminating with your light different objects, which are unfamiliar. They are coming right at that, you are looking right down there throat and you think there is no wither going to missed you but somehow they just come within inches of you. There is a lot of room for the element of surprise, there is a lot of room for photographs they re just look like nothing I have seen before.