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My name is Robert Lamb.

Today is Saturday, so we have a vault for you.

This is going to be the Mantraint, Part 3 of 3.

This was a really fun series that we did last year.

This particular episode originally published 710, 2025.

Let's dive right into it.

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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part three in our series on the genus Mobula, the Manta rays and the Devil Rays.

In part one of the series, we talked about the

original inspiration for covering this topic, which was that Rob, you and your family, got to

see Reef Manta Rays in person while snorkeling in Indonesia this summer, which sounds like

an amazing experience. Yeah, again, it almost is too much to describe, but, yeah, we jumped out of the boat.

This is after an initial snorkeling in another, you know, coral rich area.

And then they took us out to a Manta Ray cleaning station, which we're going to get into in this episode.

If you don't know what a cleaning station is, you're about, you're going to find out it is not like a service station. It is not an artificial human-made thing. When I, I don't remember when this was, but the very first time I heard about cleaning stations in the water for organisms, it made me think, oh, well, they installed a big rotating brush in the water,

and it draws in the fish. Because cleaning stations, again, we'll get into all the details of this,

it is a place where if you know where the cleaning stations are, then you as divers or snorkelers

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