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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

#114 : Manta point, off Mabul, Malaysia

63 min, 21 meters. Air.

Ok come on this is truly sad. They call this Manta point, since probably someone sometimes maybe have seen a manta here. Or maybe he saw a stingray and confused it with a real manta. But hey, compare to the Manta point at Malapasqua where 5 meter mantas are met on daily basis...

You knew that things were bad when the DM starts to bang his tank in order to show us something cool and all u come up with is a hairy crab chilling on a pathetic anenome. Well at least they call them Orang Utan crabs here, making it at least a little bit cool!

This reef slope was full of small holes and hideaways, perfect hiding places for fish, stingrays, octapus, lobster, etc. But time after time I had to leave my search with empty hands, all of the spots being basically empty. After reviewing literally tens of holes, I managed at least to find one blue spotted stingray which is always nice. Also one brown moray and a couple of "Orang Utans". And at the end, the biggest bubble coral shrimp ever. These guys are usually found at around 1-2cm but this was a gigantic 5cm+ transparent blue monster?!

Divebuddy Pierre, the french guy did a great job replacing the aussie

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