Manta was used by american awacs for the surveillance of drug trafficking in the eastern pacific .
美军曾在曼塔基地部署了机载警报和控制系统,以监视东太平洋地区的贩毒活动。
American officials insist that palanquero is not a direct replacement for manta .
美国官员坚称,palanquero不是要直接取代manta基地的功能。
The trade is on the increase , with mozambique recording an 86 % decline in sightings of the fish over the past eight years , but manta rays are very important for tourism and attract divers who will pay a lot to see them .
Last year ecuador 's government ended the lease under which american awacs and orion aircraft flew surveillance missions to spot drug movement in the eastern pacific from a base at manta .
The lime spa offers massages , manicures and pedicures , body scrubs and aromatherapy while schools of fish and manta rays swim by on the other side of thick glass walls .
Afterwards , back on the surface , I was ridiculed by the other divers for taking photographs of the small black snail instead of watching the manta rays .
后来,回到海面时,其他潜水者嘲笑我拍了小黑蜗牛的照片,却没有观察蝠鲼。
Unlike stingrays , manta rays do not have venomous tail barbs .
和刺鳐不一样,蝠鲼没有剧毒的尾刺。
Manta rays regularly visit " cleaning stations " where small wrasse fish clean them of parasites .
蝠鲼会定期造访“清理站”,在那里,小濑鱼会帮助它们清理身上的寄生虫。
Manta station , do you read me ?
曼塔基地,能收到我的信息吗?
In the clear blue waters of the maldives I once found myself ignoring a pair of giant manta rays just five metres from where I was kneeling on the sand staring at a coral outcrop .