DEEP STINGRAY CITY, The dive boats that take scuba divers to Stingray City which is a separate spot than The Sandbar. There is much better interaction at Stingray City with the rays for divers and the snorkelers watch pretty much from the surface. If you are proficient at diving down with a snorkel that's great, Its About 12FT deep, .It may be that stingrays began gathering in the area decades ago when fisherman returning from an excursion, navigated behind a reef into the sound, and cleaned their fish in the calm water of the shallows and sandbar area. The fish guts and squid were thrown overboard and the stingrays eventually congregated to feast there. Soon the stingrays associated the sound of a boat engine with food. As this practice turned into a tradition, divers realized that the stingrays could be fed by hand.
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