Once we caught up with one, it was heart-stopping stuff: I got within touching distance of this awe-inspiring animal, and saw manta rays, turtles and dolphins.
cozumel.travel, bluemagicscuba.com ID2067181 There are frequent opportunities to snorkel with whale sharks and giant manta rays en route to dive sites near Tofo, in southern Mozambique.
It's the fact that on radio playlists dominated by sanitised singer-songwriters and slick pop ballads, Slaves turn up with primal songs that throw together punk existentialism, sketches of suburban life and absurd narratives about manta rays and sasquatches in noisy three-minute bursts.
Vincent hauls them both onstage to initiate a manta ray battle.
The band already have a professional manta ray, their merch guy Olly, who has a proper costume left over from a video shoot.
Vuma caverns, an hour north of Mombasa by dive boat with Buccaneer Diving, has exceptional wall diving and possible appearances by dolphins or manta rays.
Here I spent well over three minutes transfixed by a manta.
Also added is the manta ray, a fish valued for its feathery gill-rakers, sought after in China as an ingredient in a health tonic.
The sea mountains that lie below the surface of its waters throw up all sorts of delicious things for sharks, manta rays and turtles to feast on.
Coral, turtles, manta rays and brightly-coloured fish thrive.
Along the hundreds of miles of its coral expanse, even a dilettante diver with but a day to spend recently encountered reef sharks, schools of barracuda, friendly giant cod, turtles, manta rays, strange jellyfish (some deadly) and myriads of smaller iridescent fish of many different kinds.
