Mi'il Channel
深度范围指从潜点顶部到通常最大深度;"建议认证等级"是运营商通常要求的主流机构等级,并非法律规定。水流和能见度每天都会变化,请将这里的所有信息视为规划参考范围。
Mi'il Channel is the stage for Yap's winter spectacle. From about December through April the island's resident reef mantas gather here to court, and courtship means trains: a female leading a queue of males that snake through the channel and bank over the cleaning ridge in formation. Divers kneel on bare sand at spots guides have used for decades and let the animals work overhead, wingtips sometimes close enough to feel the pressure wave. Visibility is channel visibility, greenish and honest, which makes the moment a manta materializes out of the haze all the more theatrical.
您此行的高光时刻: Courtship trains of reef mantas December–April; close cleaning-station passes; mangrove-channel scenery on the boat ride.
地形地貌: Sand and rubble channel floor between mangrove-fringed reef walls, with coral-head cleaning stations
水流: Tidal flow through the channel; guides time drops for the phase that brings ocean water and mantas together.
入水方式: Boats thread the mangrove channel from Colonia to the northwest reef; divers drop near the cleaning stations and settle low.
入水前须知
危险因素: Tidal current and reduced visibility on the wrong phase; boat traffic in the narrow channel.
保育: Stay low and still at the stations, never block a manta's path or chase, and keep strobes reasonable: the mantas' tolerance is the resource.
你会遇见谁
Blacktip Reef Shark
Green Sea Turtle
Grey Reef Shark
Reef Manta Ray
Whitetip Reef Shark
"已标注于此"的物种由编辑团队从本页所列来源中整理收录。数量为GBIF出现记录数:即1990年以来在标注位置约5公里范围内记录的观测数据,仅与我们目录中的物种进行匹配。这些数据反映的是该地点的历史目击情况,并非对您此行所见的保证。
摄影师专区
广角: ★★★★☆ · 微距: ★☆☆☆☆ (编辑对该潜点适合各类水下摄影风格的1–5分评级)