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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our series on Manta Rays and their close mobulid relatives.

In the last episode of this series, we kicked things off by talking about an experience that you had, Rob, recently where you and your family got to see Reef Manta Rays in person while snorkeling in Indonesia, which sounds pretty amazing.

Did I get the details on that right?

Correct, yes. It was amazing.

You know, words can't quite describe it.

Observing them, but not swimming, quote, with them.

You weren't riding the rays.

Correct. They were doing their own thing.

We were trying to keep our distance and observe from a distance, which is the correct way of going about things.

So that was what inspired us to talk about Manta Rays in a series of episodes here on the show. In the last episode, we talked about the historical evolution of human attitudes toward Mantares with these old stories among some divers

and sailors that cast Manta Rays as diabolical vampires of the sea.

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