<div dir="ltr">Friday, 10-11-13, during my underwater tour on the manta ray night dive I saw what looked like a lost dive light on the bottom. As I approached to retrieve the light I observed a manta ray swim through the plankton in the beam above the light run into an <span class="" style>un</span>-seen obstacle.<div>
Once I got near enough I found that a charter operator had left the light to mark where a mooring's location in preparation for their 2nd trip. </div><div>We know it can be hard to find the moorings in the dark so I went to the mooring to scrub in clean and hopefully make it easier to find. On the mooring ball itself were 2 green <span class="" style>cylume</span> light sticks.</div>
<div>I guess the light on the bottom was to keep manta rays at the site for the second trip.</div><div>Problem is that by placing the light beside the mooring you are drawing manta rays into the line and possibly harming the very creature you are hoping to show your guests.</div>
<div>It is important that we not let our commercial operations injure the manta rays.</div><div>Please think it through. </div><div>We've enjoyed manta rays trips since 1985 and would very much like to have a mutually beneficial experience well into the future.</div>
<div>Thanks</div><div>Keller Laros</div><div>Founder </div><div>Manta Pacific Research Foundation</div><div><img src="cid:ii_141ae44425524609" alt="Inline image 3" width="414" height="232"><img src="cid:ii_141ae444865021be" alt="Inline image 4" width="414" height="232"><br>
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