Raja Ampat, Manta Mayhem – Calico Jack adventures took us South to Misool, Penemu, far North as Eagle Rock and back to Dampier Strait. Conditions in Raja Ampat were perfect 20m + visibility.
Day 3 we sailed down to Shadow reef, a magnificent sea mount running South of Boo island in Misool.
Normally we drop in at the top of the reef and continue down to a depth of 30m, where you can quite often find blacktip reef sharks and manta rays.
On this occasion, we dropped straight onto 7 giant oceanic mantas in around 7-10 m of water on the top of the reef. Mantas were circling and gliding above us for the entire 60 min of the dive.
Calico has experienced 1 or 2 oceans on this particular dive site before, but nothing prepared us for the Manta Mayhem we were about to experience.
Raja Ampat, Manta Mayhem
