End of Manta Season 2018

After a number of set backs, we have two fully functional Eyes on the Reef housings made! We have started deploying them through out November but as the manta season is starting to draw to an end, we aren't expecting to get much more data this season. The camera rigs will be moved to our other project bases and the timing and deployments fine tuned ready for the manta season next year. We will of course continue to keep you updated on progress.

 

Our Eyes on the Reef rigs will move with the mantas! Travelling between our different project bases in the Maldives as the seasons change in order to keep up with the manta action.

Check out this quick time series of four days of continuous time lapse photography of the cleaning station.

The photos have all been analysed and we're already starting to see distinct patterns in time of day when the mantas visit this particular cleaning station. The most we got in a single frame was six different mantas all queuing up for a chance to be scrubbed.