Manta Absconds With $5000 Camera

By RickMac, on September 15th, 2010 2 comments   Fish

I simply cannot wait till Friday for this one. How I do LOVE charismatic megafauna!

2 comments to Manta Absconds With $5000 Camera

• Al Dove

  September 15, 2010 at 16:18 · Reply

  Poor thing. Its a bit of a design flaw with mantas, unfortunately. Those cephalic lobes do tend to get hooked on stuff, and the ensuing panic swim usually just makes it worse; what they really need to do is back up.

  I believe more than one commercial diver has lost their life in the Gulf of Mexico because a passing manta hooked their surface supply or comm cable and took them for a short and fatal ride

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