This picture is of by far my most favorite dive memory! Taken at the dive site Karang Bayanean in Raja Ampat, Nicolas Salvagno (my guide) and I enjoyed a private manta shoot with 6 oceanic mantas, thoroughly entertaining us for one hour. This photo is part of a sequence of shots of his stalking manta. Nico was hovering watching the activity over the reef while I was busy watching this manta creep up closer and closer behind him, surely wondering what this guy was up to, not moving for much of an hour. Finally, I had to signal Nico with my head 'look behind you!'. That is when I captured this shot. I could just imagine in my mind what they both thought at that moment... oh, hello there beautiful...
I have never seen anything like it before.