AMAZING! Downwind Sails Watersports of Myrtle Beach freed this Manta Ray caught in mooring rope for more than an hour yesterday. Once released, it swam away unharmed! Video via Brandon Dorsey. https://wpde.com/chimein | WPDE ABC15

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387K views · 31K reactions | A manta ray sped toward a boat before performing an impressive underwater backflip, leaving onlookers in awe. https://abcn.ws/3iZ401S | ABC News | Facebook

🌊 Happy World Manta Ray Day! As the HOME of the Manta Ray, we celebrate these incredible gentle giants every single day at Lady Elliot Island. Did you know @projectmanta has identified over 1,000 individual manta rays here, including Taurus (#134), the oldest known manta ray alive, first spotted here in 1982. Help us learn more and protect these magnificent creatures: 📸 Share your manta photos with #ProjectManta ✨ Follow @projectmanta 💙 Spread manta ray conservation awareness Ready to tick “s

In July, a giant manta ray, an endangered species, was legally captured off Panama City Beach, Florida, and shipped off for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi. The catch was permitted under a “marine special activity license” issued by Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), a rarely used loophole that allows contractors to take federally protected species for “educational” or “scientific” purposes. In reality, this permit was stretched to justify supplying a foreign theme park, an act