{"id":314107,"date":"2019-12-17T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=314107"},"modified":"2019-12-17T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:02:18","slug":"yaps-premiere-dive-resort-top-choice-of-divers-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/yaps-premiere-dive-resort-top-choice-of-divers-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Yap\u2019s premiere dive resort top choice of divers from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_314151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314151\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Yap-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-314151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Yap-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Acker family shows off their 2019 Scuba Diving Magazine Readers Choice awards. From left, Numie, hotel manager; O.P., Dive Operations manager; Bill, CEO\/founder; and his wife Patricia, originator of Taro Leaf Spa and Blue Planet Kayak Tours. (JMCLURE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>COLONIA, Yap\u2014There are awards and then there are awards. The two captured this past month by Yap\u2019s premiere dive resort, Manta Ray Bay Resort and Yap Divers, are among the most coveted in the dive industry because divers themselves do the voting.<\/p>\n<p>Chosen by readers of Florida-based Scuba Diving Magazine, \u201cthe leading scuba magazine for divers who live to dive,\u201d and presented during DEMA, the Diving Equipment &amp; Marketing Association Show, held Nov. 13-16 in Orlando, Florida, the popular dive resort was among the five top overall resorts in the Pacific and Indian Ocean region to receive an \u201cexcellent\u201d score in two categories: Best Dive Resort and Best Dive Shop.<\/p>\n<p>The publication invites readers to \u201cevaluate the dive resorts they\u2019ve visited within the past two years on a variety of subjects, and to pick the best dive resort they\u2019ve ever visited\u201d for the annual poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been diving in Yap for nearly 40 years,\u201d said Manta Ray owner Bill Acker, \u201cand I love introducing other divers to everything that Yap has to offer both in the water and on land.\u201d Bill realized his dream of opening Yap\u2019s first dive shop in 1986. Since then, the small, family-owned resort has grown into a luxury destination that attracts an average of 1,000 divers annually from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese awards prove that we\u2019ve done what we set out to do!\u201d Bill exclaimed in his native Texas twang.<\/p>\n<p>For more information: www.mantaray.com and https:\/\/www.scubadiving.com\/scuba-divings-2020-readers-choice-awards-rank-worlds-best-diving#page-4. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLONIA, Yap\u2014There are awards and then there are awards. The two captured this past month&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}