This film clip of a manta ray was taken Friday October 22, 2010 off the coast of Jacksonville Florida.
The divers reported the scale was at least a 20 foot wing span.  This is a first. I never knew they came this close to our coast line.
October 22, 2010, a Friday to remember for these divers who not only saw the Manta Ray but filmed her. The TISIRI team was once again working on the environment. Out collecting trash as part of a grant by West Marine. The days events were being documented on film. Joe Kistel, as the last diver to enter the water explains the story to me like this: I was just about the enter the water when Ed pops up yelling “hey big bam rayjama smellow.” The captain and I staired at each other with a chill running down the spine, believing something had happened down below. We …