Oceanic Manta (again!), Malapascua, Cebu, Philippines

On the second day of our trip, the gods of diving smiled upon us yet again, giving us another thresher shark sighting in the afternoon, aside from two rounds of manta-parading. I thought this manta (who was not Tisoy, since both its cephalic lobes were intact) was just going to swim from left to right, but it suddenly made a right turn and headed our way. The manta goes slightly off-camera somewhere during the video, because that was around the time I realized its mouth was big enough to swallow my head and probably the top of my body.

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Pets & Animals

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• oceanic manta
• manta
• manta ray
• monad shoal
• malapascua
• cebu
• philippines
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• scuba diving