Eyes on the Reef - Testing the Water

January 2019

Simon Hilbourne, one of our Research Officers working in the Maldives, is leading the charge with ‘Eyes on the Reef’ - our Featured Research that aims to better understand what manta rays get up to on cleaning stations when snorkelers, divers (and researchers!) aren’t around.

In this latest update, Simon talks us through the finished camera rigs he’s been able to build through this crowdfunded project, and takes it out to a popular cleaning station in Baa Atoll to test it and showcase some of the initial video data it’s bringing to the surface.