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HONOLULU (ISLAND NEWS) -- September 16th is World Manta Day!

Gliding blissfully under the sea's surface, manta rays are some of Hawaiʻi's most fascinating and beautiful underwater inhabitants. And to coincide with

Manta ray dive and when a bottle-nosed dolphin went to them for help. it was tangled in fishing line and had a tough time swimming freelily. and he worked to remove the hook from the fin of the dolphin and the dolphin patiently let him do it. in fact, the dolphin even went up to the surface for air and went back so keller could finish the job. joining me now on skype from hawaii, master diver, keller laros. keller, this is just an amazing story. what did did you think when the dolphin got this c...

Necessarily trusting being wild animals and they tend to be, usually kind of shy or a little aloof. and ive had dolphins come up and sort of instigate play-like behavior, and grab a sea cucumber and hand it to the other dolphin and look at you and seems playing and interacting with the humans, which is amazing for a wild animal to interact with humans, but this one came, you know, not because it want today play and not because it was swimming by and it happened to be there. this dolphin initiate...

But for the dolphin that was a first. >> and the dolphin surfaced for air at one point and came back to you. i find at that remarkable that he knew to not only go and get air and he knew right where to come back and you were going to finish the job. >> well, you know, the dolphin was clearly it needed help. i think when the dolphin gotten taped in the line realized right away it was in trouble, but being a smarter animal, the dolphin knew it needed help and it knew where to find help because we ...

Still stuck in the injury, and i tried to pick it out of his fin pit, if you will, and he seemed okay with that. and then he just went up for a breath of air and he swam off, and i havent seen him since. >>steve: i know you do about 150 of these manta expeditions a year. i know every time youre in the water from here on out youre going to be looking for that guy? >> looking and listening because he was really loud. he announced his presence. im just happy i was able to help the dolphin. animals ...