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Comments: I'd like to name this ray after my late father. Butch is a St Paddy's Ray, spotted off Oahu's Ewa Pinnacles dive site on the morning of 17 March, 2018. He was a smaller manta, at an estimated 7' in disc width, with a unique handprint marking on his stomach. He was first sighted headed east, at the south end of the main pinnacle, in roughly 70 feet of water. He came directly towards Kimberly Jeffries, Rob Johnson, and myself, before continuing on his way, passing over another diver and disappearing into the blue.
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