The Ray was stationary on the sea-floor hunting for food in the sand.
Dive Leader Andrea points out a Spotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari) gliding by in the distance at Thudufushi Thila. Note all the suspended plankton in the water.
I visited Warren Thila three times during our holiday, and each time we hung onto the reef at 27m in the strong current and watched the Grey Reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) circling around us. It should start in 720p HD video - you might need to pause it straightaway if your broadband connection is as slow as ours, in order to let it fully download first (it'll be several hundred Mbytes). Visibility wasn't brilliant - you can see the thick plankton streaming past the camera in the latter part of the video. At one point a Spotted Eagle Ray wanders past. A young shark, about a meter long, swims directly between me and dive leader Jan a few meters away. One of the adult sharks asks to have its teeth cleaned by slanting its body upwards and opening its mouth - you can see the cleaner fish darting in and out. Sooner them than me...
A welcome sight at the end of a dive...
