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Winged Giants Christopher J. Crowley is kidnapped by the “devilfish” mantas of Yap.

Winged Giants Mantas form clusters at the cleaning station, circling six feet above the coral patch like jumbo jets in a holding pattern around a busy airport.

Variations on Nature’s Theme Its green swathed hills, surrounded by a fringing reef and mile after mile of mangrove lined bays, in many ways have been little touched by the march of time.

Manta Awareness Weve come into Mil Channel just as the mornings incoming tide begins its flow, bringing in clear ocean water from outside the reef. We move down the channel edge until we come to the coral mound that marks the Manta cleaning station.