Forty Years of Yap Divers and a Week We Will Never Forget

Bill Acker, Founder and Owner of Yap Divers and Manta Ray Bay Hotel

“A few weeks ago, Patricia and I began our 40th Anniversary celebration by looking back at how quickly four decades had passed. What followed was a wonderful week surrounded by family, old friends, new friends, our incredible staff, and guests who traveled from around the world to celebrate with us here in Yap.

When we started Yap Divers in 1986, we certainly couldn’t have imagined what it would eventually become. Four years later, the Manta Ray Bay Hotel opened on Yap Day, March 1, 1990, and over the years it grew into today’s Manta Ray Bay Resort and Yap Divers. More importantly, a community grew around it.

We had some remarkable people helping us along the way. Geri Murphy and Paul Tzimoulis helped introduce Yap and its manta rays to divers around the world, while Mike and Vikki Musto, through Trip‘n’Tour Micronesia, helped make it possible for those divers to actually get here. Those friendships, and many others like them, became an important part of our story….”

Please follow the link below share in our story…

40th Celebration aboard with family
celebrating 1985 diving in Yap
celebrating 1988 diving in Yap
celebrating 1997 ashore at Yap Divers
celebrating Mantafest 2009 in Yap
celebrating Mantafest 2021 in Yap
celebrating Mantafest 2023 in Yap