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The countdown is running let's get everything ready.
Very exciting. I'm live on my phone and this is working. Let's see who's
joining.
Connie's here. Hi Connie.
We are live here already but we are waiting a few more minutes like two more minutes. Do you see
the counter the countdown timer? We are checking out new technology and
we're going to be together with you here in like two minutes. In the meantime
enjoy this beautiful reef. It's drone footage from Jim of the Hawaiian
Reef. Getting you into the right mood.
(Mexico birds chirping in the background) Should we start our little conversation here? We have a
couple more minutes. We might want to give it some more time for the stragglers.
Maybe one more minute? We are anxious and excited. Can't you
tell? Leave a comment if you are live with us. We cannot see whose
live. We can only see if someone is live by leaving a comment like my sister Connie.
Say hi and where you're from.
One more minute. Stefan is here. I have to go
and will watch later. Have fun. Yes we will, have fun for sure. That's what we
do here. You watch later that's right. Thanks Stefan. This is Germany and
New Zealand so far. Laurie in Cozumel, yippie. We love to connect with the world don't we?
Frank Netherwood, Yes! Back in from San Francisco.
Great. Okey-dokey. Good technology, we're
going to start this now. We're going to go live now and you will see us a little bigger. Say
goodbye to the reef and here we go. We are live today in Hawaii. This is
Martina Wing and I have my dear friend Tara Kelly with me today. We came up
with some kind of interview style with Facebook live today. All because we are
celebrating my first Manta ray dive, 20 years ago. I actually still have the log books
here and how this all came together. We wanted to celebrate with you
today. We put our makeup on and we put all this stuff on.
For everybody who has not watched me before my name is Martina Wing I'm in Hawaii.
I live on a Kona Coast and I love the manta rays. I dive and swim with them
almost every night for all these years. They really touched my life and
touched my heart so many years ago and I love to share my knowledge I
have about them. This is for my introduction today so that you know who I am.
I want to tell you real quick about Tara. Tara is my dear friend of 14
years. She came to Kona 14 years ago and she was a dive master.
Actually why don't we say hello to Tara. Tara, how you doing and where
are you and what's going on in your life? First of all happy Anniversary Martina.
Happy anniversary with the manta rays. Thank you. I'm here in Mexico
in the state of Oaxaca. It's the southern end of Mexico and yes I'm here
to interview you today. All about your manta rays. Okay! Also to learn about your experience.
The idea came up with Tara. She is actually my virtual assistant so she can
travel the world. She's on a sailing trip around the world and Mexico is one of
her stops. Tara does a lot of things in the background. I'm trying to be in
the forefront and be the face of this whole Manta Ray Advocacy thing.
There's so much work to do in the background so I have Tara and also Haley
in the background a lot. Tara is sailing usually and then in between she
does some computer work. If there's something you need in the service area
you are looking for then definitely connect with Tara. The idea came up that
I should be interviewed. Usually I want to be the interviewer. I interviewed my
sister a few months well it was a few weeks ago. Today we turn it
around because we have a really good reason to celebrate 20 years. It's really
an awesome epic journey that I've had for so many years. Before we jump
into the first question, I want to tell you that we do have a celebration
giveaway today. I do want you to stay tuned until the the end we're going to give you
something to do. If that's all going to work out then I think you're going to
really enjoy our giveaway today. Stay tuned and I'm going to be interviewed now. Tara,
you take it away, then I'm going to answer your questions that
you have. All right, great. Well, as you know we're here celebrating
Martina's 20th anniversary with the manta rays and being in Hawaii.
Martina, how did it all start for you? I started as a tourist coming to
Kona. I was traveling when I was going to turn 30 and there was
this dive here in Kona. I was a brand new diver and someone said you have to do
the manta ray dive and so I did. I came from a place
that was not so good. What was happening in Germany? I'm a
German national and it was a sad chapter in my life. I had to travel and I wanted to get
out of it. Then really it was a big turn around for me when I saw the manta rays. You
know the really fun side story to this is, well it's actually not a sad story it's
big part of my life. It's actually the biggest because part of my life actually. I saw the
manta rays the very first time. I'm going to show you a picture in a second, if
I can figure out this technology and how I looked the very first time.
I saw the manta rays and there was this guy on the boat filming me. I
bought the video from the guy and this gentleman's name is James. James
Wing and he's my husband today. It's a fun story on how your life
can change, really on a dime. How things can turn to the
better. When I saw the manta rays for the first time for me it was definitely
touching my heart and some healing started for me from this. Then from
there a rellay cool part of my life started. It was the start to my new
life here in Hawaii. If I may, I want to show you a quick picture that I
came about. Check this out! This is me with the manta rays. Can you
see that? I hope so. This is a picture that Jim took off me on
February 26 1998. Manta Rays flying over my head. It's
really cool. This is the a picture I wanted to share with
you and then back to our interview. I
want to explain to people that you are in public place right now, because
Wi-Fi is not so easy for you to find in Mexico. Yes, so sorry about that. This is
going to be quite, fun. Okay well Martina, what made you fall in
love with the manta rays and why did they touch you so much?
When you look at these animals you know they're big, big fish. They're
definitely intimating at first. There's so much grace to them.
I needed grace I think in this part of my life. I needed to know that
there was hope that I was looking for and the mantas shared
their innocence. They're voiceless gentle giants.
I wanted to be being emerged in the ocean and with the whole thing
the scenery at nights with manta rays and the lights. It was really
incredible to experience and I really fell in love with them.
I actually want to throw this back to you, didn't you do the manta ray
night dive with me the first time? 14 years ago? What did you think?
Yes, it did. It blew me away and I'm still in awe every time I do this dive. It was funny
because when you had asked me if I ever done a manta ray dive I said sure I've
done the Stingray dives. What's the difference?
I thought I knew it all and then I saw the manta rays and yes there's a big difference.
Yes, they are such beautiful creatures and they really will change
your life. Yes, so amazing. They changed your life too right? Absolutely.
Maybe it will change someone else's life? All the folks I have with me right now
live with me: Frank. You did the dive before, and yes Connie has done this dive
before, the snorkel before. It is very impactful.
I actually wanted to change my life after I met them. Of
course meeting the guy and marrying him really helped on this journey. Since then we've been doing it together Jim and I.
We are advocates for the animals and it's is really what I'm supposed to do, I believe
I'm supposed to do this. Where were you before this
and how has it changed since the beginning when this all
started? Well I started when I was in Germany
finishing school. I finished up with engineering school and then I
wanted to travel and then came here. Everything was brand new. Then the
second question, how did this change?
I'm immigrated into a foreign country that was a big hurdle to overcome
over the years. You know the language and then running a small
company and stuff like that. Where I'm at today? I think I've been
very fortunate in all these years. I've been in a space where I knew I have
to do this work and so there's content to my heart
that I am in the right space. Then there is life hurdles that come with
everything. You know, you just work through them. I think you do it very, very well.
What are you currently working on? We were trying to do
two things right now. We're going to try to bring on nonprofit organization Hawaii Ocean
Watch more into forefront. I'm still actually reinventing ourselves
from a space that we used to do all these years, the videography and filming
the manta rays. Like Jim filmed me the very first time. Then I did this too for almost
19 and a half years. We reinvented ourselves in the sense that
we're doing more guiding today, snorkel guiding. I really
want to get into the space to educate more, just like this
Facebook live. These are the projects, along with new webdesign is
coming up. I want to reach more and more people because it's
knowledge that's in me that I want to share and get this out to people.
All the imagery that I've filmed. I'm a record keeper and I have
all these videos archived so I can tell story after story and I love to do that.
How many dives would you say you have with the manta rays?
I think about 4.000 manta ray dives. Wow! That's about number that I'm
pretty sure about. I have more day dives where
I come up to six to seven thousand dives total. Just particularly night
diving with the manta rays. That's quite a few hours under my belt and now I'm not
diving anymore but I'm snorkeling with them. Hour wise I'm reaching the
five thousand mark sometime soon. Being exposed to this beautiful
animal and I wish for everybody to experience them. I don't
know a woman on the Kona Coast that has as many dives with the manta rays other
than you. Yes, that's a feather in your cap.
What would you say would be your most memorable experience with the manta rays?
There are two situations that I really enjoy, making the
people happy that's one thing, but with the animal itself there were
two things that really stand out. I was able to create this pregnancy diary of
Big Bertha's pregnancy in 2010-11. We actually saw her from being chased
by the boys and all the courtship behavior. One manta ray is in the front
and then it was actually one dive where there was 18 male manta rays
following one female. Flying manta rays all around. I should
show that footage sometime in the near future here on Facebook too.
Then we had this pregnancy and we see Big Bertha so many times and that I
was able to compile a video where you can see how she's being chased by the
boys and then how her pregnancy is going along. It's a 13 month pregnancy
gestation period. For me, I'm so connected to this
animal. Although I mean she's this fish in the ocean but it's beautiful to
share this and to create this experience. Then the other big thing
at the manta ray dive that did happen five years ago, I was just
doing my thing. Maybe you've heard about me talking about this before?
It's the dolphin rescue where the dolphin, a bottlenose dolphin had came to
the manta ray dive and it was rescued from fishing line. It had line around his pectoral
fin and his mouth. This video went viral. For an underwater
photographer it doesn't doesn't get much better to have a situation in
front of you that you film and then people enjoy it all over the world.
If I may say it's over 33 million hits on YouTube at this
point. Wow, that's amazing! Many
people have enjoyed the story. It's so very powerful and the compassion in it
love of an animal. That's what I'm standing for love, compassion
and kindness to each other. This is what I want to spread as a message. Yes,
and I'm assuming that's what you want the guests to also feel when they
see the manta rays and experience them as well? Is that right? Yes,
I want people to know the world is a difficult place to
navigate and there are so many things and obstacles but if we bring more
as an individual, more kindness more compassion to the world. To
your neighbors, to your co-workers, to the animals around you then you make the
world a better place already. Everybody should
have that definitely on their mind to bring that to the world.
I agree. I agree. This one's a kind of a funny question
but what would be your most memorable question that a guest asks you? Something
that you've received quite often? Something funny.
Thats a really good question and I might be a little bit well I
think I'm a little mean on this end but the question is actually how long
do manta rays stay under the water? The mean
part is people don't know that the manta ray is
a fish. You know how long a fish can stay underwater? It's not a dolphin who
needs to take a breath and you know fish stay underwater forever.
Manta rays are forever underwater and will never need to come to the surface. I think this is
one of the questions I always crack up about. It's a good
question because first if you don't know much about the animal because it's still a
mysterious creature. It comes up and when people ask me this I usually crack
up first and laugh. Then I explain the situation that it is a fish.
That's great! What is your greatest achievements that you're most proud of?
Two things that I can think of, one internally.
I'm very happy and proud of that I feel so much content in my heart. Because
we have only so many hours on the planet and you know everybody seems to
be searching on what do and asking and what should I do?
What's my contribution? Maybe people's even search for
their contribution because they don't know how to get there.
I found this so long ago. Actually 20 years ago, I found what my
contribution will be to this world, this planet.
It makes you so content if you know that in your heart and you know that it's a
good place to be. I think that is an achievement for
your only personal growth. I continue to grow but I've been
in that space for so long and I really enjoy that. Then well
Frank you mentioned this it's the book. Thank you Frank!
I have a copy of it right here. My other big achievement of
course is this the dolphin rescue video that has touched the world so much and I
wanted to continue touching the world. I wanted to create the book. A children's
book
that came out on the 28th of December. Frank was one of the supporters of my
Kickstarter campaign. This book is the story of Notch now told
as a children's book. It came out incredibly beautiful. On
the inside we have the manta rays and stuff like that. There's Notch.
Then we eventually come to the place where Notch is getting rescued
by the divers. All of this is based on the video
where I was in the right place to film. Right place, right time
for sure for me. When you think of accomplishments, this
is an accomplishment I'm proud of but I want to take this further and further. I
don't want to stop bringing this story of kindness and
compassion for each other and the animals. As far as I can go.
Absolutely. More and more should know about this. We will spread the word. Hopefully everyone
spreads the word also, because I think that this is a great book and one of
your best achievements as well. The last question before we wrap it up. How can
more people get involved with the manta rays?
Definitely like our Facebook live today. You can also get
notifications how to see it so you are definitely connected with me on Facebook
and then you can also find us on Instagram.
We have great content there. Lots of content. That's an easy way to stay connected.
If you want to sign up for our newsletter we have that, too. I show up
every two weeks and your inbox and to tell you about the
animals to keep the conversation going. Then maybe I can get you to
Hawaii one day. I can inspire you. If it's not even in Hawaii I
inspire you to be a Manta Ray Advocate. Be an Ocean Advocate. The ocean needs it
so much. It needs all the support and awareness for all these humans
on the planet. The ocean needs us and all the animals need us.
These are the ways to connect with us a Facebook, Instagram and then
maybe our newsletter. I will change the
description and add a few things to it so you can connect with us there.
That's great. That's great. Martina this has been a lot of fun and
congratulations to you and I'm so happy for your 20th anniversary in
Hawaii with the manta rays. Thanks Martina. Thank you. We love that
you're passionate about it and it shows. Thank you for sharing your journey. Thank
you. Thank you. Thanks to Tara for doing
this. This was a great idea to get this all going. We had to get this technology
going up and running but I think this is a really good way and maybe I can use
this technology for other interviews and in near future.
For everybody I talked about a giveaway and I want to show you the
giveaway that I have and how you can get this giveaway. It's our
marine life coloring book. See it right here?
This is our coloring book and
it's for the children. Obviously Notch, there
is a monk seal and the sharks. There's all kinds of things in here and
this is a free downloadable little goodie that you can receive. The way
you're going to get this, I want you to do is go into the
comments section and tag a friend you have
that has children or has a child who will enjoy the coloring book. I'm
going to make sure they get the coloring book.
Maybe exchange email addresses or I can Facebook message them directly.
I want to make sure that they get this in
their inbox or Facebook. This is our giveaway today. What I
want you to do is leave a comment for anybody you know that has children and
who would enjoy this free coloring book because we want to celebrate 20 years.
Thank you for everybody that was out here today with me. Let me see
some comments. Connie is New Zealand, Frank again. Laurie in Cozumel.
Stefan in Germany. I'm sure my mom's going to watch this too. If it's just the replays.
I'm glad you were here with me. Thanks for this. It's so distracting
what she's doing on the other side. ha ha I'm going to say thank you for being
here with me today. Leave a comment, tag a friend and then we will get this
coloring book to them.
Thank you so much for being here with me and Tara.
I'll talk to you later. Bye, bye.
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