Night of the Mantas | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- At night off the Kona coast, divers use lights to attract vast clouds of plankton, which in turn attract dozens of Manta rays to feed on the plankton. Jonathan travels to Hawaii to meet these Manta rays, including one particular animal named Lefty who has been coming to this site since 1979.
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These mantas are so beautiful, I can't stop watching them!
We did a snorkel session with the Mantas last summer in Kona. "Sunlight on Water". They had a raft rigged with lights that attracted them. It was like watching an underwater ballet!
Wow seeing those lights at the bottom of the ocean while diving while also seeing those amazing creatures would be such a surreal experience. You make me want to go get my license so badly so that I can explore this other world.
Idk why? But the intro to Jonathan birds blue world really brings back memories of when I'd come home everyday after school in 7th grade and watch the future is wild on dk kids
i do this almost yearly now and still never get tired of it like dancing underwater ghosts they glide in and out of the pillars of light appearing and disappearing in the dark waters without a sound. never in my life have i seen something so big yet so graceful and with practic you can tell which rays you've seen before by the splotchy pattern on the underside of each ray thats how experts can tell who comes by every night
I always watch your channel in the holidays
Happy holidays!
Dreamy and highly entertaining. Thanks for posting!
Mantas feeding in slow, hypnotic, loops. I never see sharks doing that on film. Interesting that there is no sign of tonic immobility here. 36 years of adulthood for "Lefty" (I assume she was large when first observed) presents a well defined warning that many of the sea's most interesting denizens live to be very old and, like whales and men, take a long time time to reach sexual maturity. Unrestricted fishing can destroy whole populations without leaving the new generations time to age enough to breed and maintain numbers. Your videos familiarize us with the various layers of the undersea food chain, teaching us respect and, hopefully, a concomitant care, which will lead to intelligent management of resources necessary for a healthy environment.
I have not yet, perhaps, addressed the choice of soundtrack music for your work, but I find it well applied, integrated with, and adding to, continuity of each and every segment.
William Cox Thanks WIlliam, insightful as always, and we appreciate the encouragement! Yes, mantas live a long time and are slow to reproduce. And in many places they are not protected, so they are killed for food and it is heartbreaking. Our music is composed by an extremely talented film scorer named Bruce Zimmerman. soundproductionsmusic.com/
Shutup Jonathan
Good ole Leftie!!! Long may he/she live. I'm sure the lights have helped Leftie live much longer as it would seem the lights do give her easier access 2 the plankton. 😊
That's what l call swimming with the gods! Lol thank you for sharing this amazing video!
I love rays! Because, they are nice and beautiful creatures. ♡ I so happy! Thanks sir!
I love electric ray. Some can shock you 240 volts
More than dolphins, I want to swim with manta and sting rays. Man, that looks like so much fun! Thanks for sharing it with us, Jonathan. : )
A new episode of Blue World. This is a pleasant new year's surprise.
This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for posting your adventures here for us all to enjoy and learn :D
I love your videos! I almost cry with this one, so beautiful experience
Those MantaRays you can tell they were enjoying that
WOW!
Thoes manta rays were so big!
I liked how they flew around your cameras!
+Herowebcomics big is an understatment i've done this several time now the "small ones" are about 4 to 5 feet across but i've seen them often between 8 to 12 feet across i even got lucky to see a female one that reached a massive 16.5 feet you could stretch out over her back as far as possible and still never be able to reach both wingtips
Ryan Zimmerman
That is awesome!
yeah my stepdad owns vacation homes in Kona and showed me how to swim and dive over there. After I got thae hang of it this was the first thing i wanted to do. night swims with mantas have become a major thing over there with several businesses doing it at several locations doting all along the Kona coastline often for pretty good price just be aware this guy isn't kidding on their size OR how close they can get to you. Even floating on the surface they don't mind getting INCHES from your nose. (P.S. Though the rays are as dangerous as giant butterflies I have seen one or two people get a little nervous or even abit scared of them because of how HUGE they are) thank goodness unless you are 30 times smaller then a shrimp there's nothing to worry about.
Yay ah! As always, I really really like sticking around a lot a lot for oh so awesome videos like these that make me wanna say... Ooh lah! I love it ah!!!💖💖💖💖💗💗💗💗
Another cool video, keep em coming! Respect from Upstate NY!
OMG I WANNA VISIT SO BEAUTIFUL SO MANY MANTA RAYS I LOVE MANTA RAYS!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Hiya Lefty!!! And hiya all you other mantas!!! Just beautiful, & sneaky there heehee!!!
1:22 When you wonder how the heck Jonathan got down there 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for sharing such an AMAZING video Jonathan!! Happy New YEAR!!
Always fascinating mantas. Thanks for sharing this vid :)
Thanks for your work, love watching your video before bed. Keep in up! Cheers from Malaysia
Jonathon you are my inspiration and reason that I have fallen in love with diving and freediving I am now taking scuba classes and can't wait to be certified 🙌
Patrick Seifert Good for you!!!
I did my first night dive here. It was simply the most magical dive ever!
Wow. What a good size group of divers to go night diving with. I guess the mantas don’t sleep as much at night?
They were looking very hungry.
That was a good amount of mantas in one spot.
Good exampled video!
Absolutely LOVE this! Thanks!
I love your videos.
That was one of your best episodes
Glad you liked it!!
Wow that was amazing
And a video with Orcas would be an awesome video as well ;)
I love this channel so much!
Love your show. Fun to watch and very informative for a novice diver like me.. (: Keep up the good work and happy new year, Jonathan!
That hip grab on the intro is everything
That is QUALITY acting, I tell you. 🤣
This is my dream dive...thanks so much for such a beautiful video on it!
Hi Jonathan! I really love your program and love the subtitles. I'm learning many things of the sea world and improving my English very much. Thanks a lot!!
mlola74 Awesome!!! It's interesting, we are actually developing a curriculum for schools to use the show to help teach English.
So, it will be really educative for kids: learning English and sea life. It's just great!
That was really good, awesome photography. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks
It's amazing!
Amazingly beautiful :D need to go there when I'm older :D xxx
Since I probably won’t get my diving certification until next summer in 2019, I am gong to do the snorkeling version of this with my dad this December! I’m like the most happiest person ever right now. I can’t wait!
SOS Save Our Seas don't worry, the same thing happened to me, well with scuba diving. Last year I bought all the gear and I was ready to do get certified, then it just never happened. This year however, I'm really pushing for it and I'm confident I will get the opportunity to go for it
Amazing Creatures and Episode......Peace from New Orleans!
They are so beautiful!
Awesome video! Hanging out with the mantas looks SO cool; i just wish I had the means to do so.😟But hey, thank you so much for sharing! 😃
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You know what else is great for attracting Plankton?
The Krabby Patty secret formula
LOL XD
+SnowyPhoenix hahahahhahahahah XD
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I Comment on Videos lol
That Manta ray was so beautiful that I thought That manta ray was flying in space!!!
Thanks for your amazing videos!
Such incredible creatures! Our waters are beautiful here in La Jolla if you feel like finding some Molas!
layla stone I need molas!!!!
I dropped some tears with this video, AMAZING!!🌊💗
I've seen a spotted eagle ray jump out of the water before. I love rays.
I would love to do this at least once in my life. Scuba diving at night with manta rays will definitely be on my bucket list! Thank you so much for sharing this video!
So amazing!
I remember watching you when i was little lol 😅
Still here!
Omg i didnt know you would reply i was screamingggg keep up the great work 🙏🙏
Did this dive with my sister a few years ago with about 12 rays -- it was awesome.
this was extremely beautiful. wow.
Amazing
I love your videos
I love them.
wow that was amazing!
The light is cool.
Yay first video for you of 2015 :)
Nicholas Bloxxer Many more coming!
simply amazing!!
Love ya work Johnathan
Beautiful animal
Amazing !
Have you ever encountered a sunfish? They are massive, and I would love to know more about them.
MicrowavedCarrot We have seen them occasionally. We went out to make a segment about them in southern CA last summer but we had bad weather and our spotter plane couldn't fly, so we had to cancel the segment. :-(
Wow this is amazing!
I wish Jonathan does his blue world more
When I first saw this video, I never dreamed I'd ever get to go to Hawaii in general. Let alone doing the night manta dive. Flash forward, I leave on the 31st for a 7 day dive trip in Kona where I'll do not only the night manta dive, but the one out in the ocean where it's pitch black except for the bioluminescent sea life
It's awesome, have fun!!
I recently did this dive and filmed my experience, it was supper cool and I really want to do it again!
dude if i did this i would literally cry mantas are so cool
thats amazing,your the man
Jonathan I was also in Kona Hawaii for Xmas
I was at the exact same place a few years later!
Awesome video :-)
I did this dive with extended horizons when I went Kona. Unfortunately none of the mantas showed. Ill have to try again sometime.
+C4L311 I got skunked once too. If the weather is wrong, they can't get to the ideal spot. Then the dive shops tend to lie to the divers and tell them they are going to the "alternate" spot--but there is no alternate spot. That's just a way to keep from canceling the trip and refunding your money. Don't fall for it.
+BlueWorldTV Actually it was Kona Dive Co that we did this dive with, extended horizons was who we dove with on Maui. They told us ahead of time that they might not show. We waited awhile and when it was clear they weren't coming we left and did the rest of the dive on the near by reef. Obviously lame compared to the manta's but ended up being a decent night dive... But good job on your video's man. I've been looking for a cool scuba channel, glad I stumbled onto to yours.
When I lived on a boat in Port Royal in the late 60s the manta rays would jump in Kingston Harbor.... making a big splat noise from maybe a half a mile away very loud I lived right next to the seawall they called it that went right down into the water from the earthquake in the 1800s.... I watched Jaques Cousteau videos and they show the observation tower in Port Royal that I used to go up in when I was a kid....one time someone hooked a gigantic manta ray at least 12 feet wide maybe bigger almost yanked the woman into the water when they got it up to the dock, Hours later they just cut it loose because it was too bigTo do anything with ......good times I was about eight years old
i took of from that same boat place on one of the tours I did of swimming with Dolphins.
super cool!
wow!!!!!!!!
It’s incredible lefty is still alive, there life spans must be comparable to sea turtles or at least humans for a deformed ray to thrive that long in the wild.
Happy new year!
Great Video! I'm about to do the Manta Night Dive and the Black Water Dive. Anyone have tips on shooting this on a GoPro? Thanks!
Best thing you can do to make the GoPro produce a better image underwater is to compensate for the terrible optical design of the flat port with one of these:
www.inon.jp/products/gopro/uflg140sd.html
@@BlueWorldTV Thanks!
Wish I could do this :(
Me too!
U can
Happy NEW YEAR Jonathan
oohh I've been looking forward to a new one xD.
beautiful
I wish i could scuba dive even more at night isnt it scary like to see where you going
how amazing
that's is very cool
awesomeeeee! i love ur videos so much!!! wish i were u :P
This is amazing!! I wish I can do this dive but I'm only 12
Me to I would love to dive
You can get certified at 10
i am i diver like you but i dont film my dives i have seen basking shark, whale shark even great whites and manny more fish. an it was a amazing video.
Betiful! Manta rays are big and stuff! That’s all I know.
I think this was the best night dive I have ever made!..In kona diving a rebreather. Used Jacks dive locker....WOW!!
Hey, Jonathan! I had a question on Manta Rays. I remember you saying that they were once called devil rays because of the cephalic lobes they have and people once thinking they looked evil, but their names were changed to Manta ray after that. I was watching another ocean type documentary show, and they mentioned devil Ray's and showed a segment on them like you did. However, these were different and didnt look the same as the Ray's you showed which used to be called devil Ray's. I just got a bit confused on that and wanted more of a clarification if you knew! Thanks!
There is a similar looking ray called a Mobula, which is basically just a smaller version of the manta. They also get the "Devil Ray" name sometimes.
Id never be brave enough to dive at night, well done!!!
Btw; can mantas sting like stingrays?
No mantas have no stingers
Hello, Lefty!
hey were did you go to get on the boat.I want to do that
Cynthia Biggs Kona, Big Island.