Epic # of Devil Rays feeding and flying off Baja CA - WOW!

[MoonRiver]

Last edited Mon Sep 23, 2013, 12:07 PM - Edit history (1)

[TwilightGardener]

1. That is super-cool.

[Renew Deal]

2. They murdered Steve Irwin

[MoonRiver]

3. "Murdered"??????????????????????????

[Renew Deal]

4. Your avatar shows which side you're on

[MoonRiver]

6. Ok, then!

[hobbit709]

13. What killed Steve Irwin was a Sting Ray, not a Manta Ray.

and I wouldn't call it murdered either.

[Recursion]

15. You're either with the rays, or against them.

Manta-ist.

[Renew Deal]

19. Thank you!

[piratefish08]

25. great, another Manta-pologist. DU is full of them lately!

[Arugula Latte]

28. You don't need to be so adamanta about it.

[msanthrope]

29. Don't let the terra-rays win. nt

[Arugula Latte]

36. That sounds sort of raysist.

[pinboy3niner]

37. We knew someone would play the rayce carp

[Arugula Latte]

40. Yes, and it's too bad because those barbs sting.

[Eleanors38]

55. You'll swim with the fishes for that!

[msanthrope]

41. You know, I dated a Manta in school. nt

[Arugula Latte]

44. Let me guess ... "Some of my best friends are Mantas" is your mantra.

[A HERETIC I AM]

42. I heard they killed the second Manta Ray in charge.......

for the 64th time.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

52. I for one welcome our new two-dimensional aquatic overlords. N.T.

[Katashi_itto]

39. Sting Rays also secretly finance Al-Queda, known fact.

[pinboy3niner]

49. They use their offshore accounts

Very tricky, stingrays, very tricky...

[Renew Deal]

51. lol

[Katashi_itto]

53. Lol!

[WilliamPitt]

50. I love you.

[UtahLib]

5. Outstanding display!

I would love to see that in person.

[MoonRiver]

7. Me too!

[cthulu2016]

8. Here is how to embed that video in the OP >

Last edited Mon Sep 23, 2013, 11:41 AM - Edit history (1)

Same URL minus this: feature=player_embedded&

[MoonRiver]

9. Thanks, but how did you do it?

[pinboy3niner]

14. Just copy the url from your address bar and paste it here. nt

[cthulu2016]

18. Just delete the extra stuff in the address

DU is set up to embed automatically if you put the native youtube url, and the "embeded" part of the address confuses DU.

If you edited the OP and backspaced over the stuff I identified as extraneous (feature=player_embedded&) the video would embed itself.

[MoonRiver]

23. Did it!

Thanks so much!

[X_Digger]

10. How cool would it be to be the diver?

Color me green with envy.

[Scuba]

21. I've never been on a dive half as cool as that, but I did take this pic ...

Southern Stingray, off Rum Point, Grand Cayman.

[X_Digger]

22. Nice! I've had spotted eagle rays come close to me in the Keys

I think they were used to being fed by divers.

[MoonRiver]

26. Sweet!

[MoonRiver]

24. How incredible!

You look really close to it.

[Scuba]

32. I've had them brush up against me and eat out of my hand. They have sucker mouths ...

... and will give you a hickey if you're not careful. Here's another shot I took on the same dive ...

[L0oniX]

11. Cllck on Youtube "share" to copy paste the video link to DU.

[hunter]

12. WOW, Indeed.

I've seen them, maybe in the same place that was filmed, but not more than a dozen and I've never seen them leaping out of the water like that.

I hope that's something normal for them, and not like they're gathering to leave the Earth like the Dolphins in Hitchhiker's Guide...



So long, and thanks for all the fish!

[X_Digger]

16. One theory holds that they're knocking off parasites. n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

27. I didn't know they did that, either. We have manta rays in the Gulf of Mexico,

but I've never heard anyone talk about them flying like that. I think I would be scared to see it if I was on a boat, at least if they were doing it close to the boat. I have been told by people that they've seen humongous rays beneath them out on the water. At night they cast huge shadows and it's really a spooky thing to see.

[MoonRiver]

30. I seem to recall a story about a ray landing (flying?) onto someone's boat.

Does that sound familiar?

[LuvNewcastle]

33. Yes, I think I did read something like that. I know people catch them

sometimes when they go fishing and sometimes they wind up in the boat with them. People have to be very careful about getting them out of there. Some people kill them first, but I don't think they're very easy to kill. I've been told that if you get one in your boat, you're supposed to drag your feet when you're around them. They probably have poor eyesight and strike if they see movement.

[pinboy3niner]

35. Huge Eagle Ray Jumps in Boat!

The second video mentions a woman in a boat who died from blunt force trauma after she was hit in the face by a stingray.

Stingray Leaps From Water, Hits Woman in Boat

[MoonRiver]

38. That's it! n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I believe after 2008 they're just called Rays. :)

And currently in the lead in the AL wild card race.

[Scuba]

20. Wow. Just wow.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Way cool!

I didn't know they flew, or at least leapt out of the water, like that.

[Zorra]

34. Thanks for posting, that is really fascinating. nt

[reddread]

43. awesome Elasmobranchs

always loved freshwater stingrays and mantas.
what a scene!

[pinboy3niner]

45. I herd it's rare for them to congregate in such large numbers

So it's a phenomenon to appreciate, seeing them arrayed like this.

[greatlaurel]

46. Beautiful!

Thanks for posting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. cool

[MFM008]

48. wow

did i say wow?

[malaise]

54. Freaking wow!

Rec

[Eleanors38]

56. Great to see those guys in such numbers. Thanks.