Sharks and Rays on a Bora Bora Lagoon Tour

Most Bora Bora lagoon tours stop at a site with stingrays and blacktip reef sharks, where you can stay on the boat or get in the water with them, and several add a site where manta rays are sometimes seen. On Rohivai Tours’ full day, Bora Bora: Full day Lagoon Safari & Lunch on a Motu - ST, the rays and sharks are the first stop, from $169 a person (checked November 2026). Feeding wild marine animals is illegal in French Polynesia, in the words of its Service du tourisme, and the Rohivai Tours trips do not allow it.

The calendar above is the full-day lagoon safari, with 850 reviews (checked November 2026).

The short answer

If the stingrays and blacktip reef sharks are why you are going, the first two cards below stop for them, and the full day adds a coral garden, a manta site and lunch on a motu. If you want only the animals and the snorkelling, a short trip of 2.5 to 4 hours does it for less. If you want a trip that feeds no animals and visits no site where animals are drawn in by feeding, the third card below (H2O Bora Bora) is built that way, with manta and eagle ray stops instead. Wild animals come and go: mantas are not guaranteed on Rohivai Tours’ full day, and on Moana Adventure Tours’ and H2O Bora Bora’s trips no sighting is guaranteed.

What you see, and where

The animals the trips name are stingrays and blacktip reef sharks at the first stop of most of them, lemon sharks as well on Lagoon Service’s 4-hour snorkel trip, and manta rays and eagle rays at other sites. Rohivai Tours’ full day stops first at a site with stingrays and blacktip reef sharks, then a coral garden, then a second site where manta rays can sometimes be found (not guaranteed), before lunch on a motu. No trip names its ray, shark or manta sites, and none gives the depth of the water at them.

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The rule on feeding

The Service du tourisme of the Government of French Polynesia ran a notice on 29 August 2025 under the line “Protégeons notre Fenua: ne nourrissez pas les espèces marines sauvages”, do not feed wild marine species. It calls attracting fish, sharks, rays or any other animal with food, gestures or noises dangerous and illegal, a threat to the balance of the ecosystems, and gives fines of up to 17,800,000 F CFP and two years in prison for harm to protected species. It also records that serious accidents linked to feeding marine animals have hit both residents and visitors. Sharks are protected across French Polynesia’s whole exclusive economic zone, a shark sanctuary since 2006, and both manta ray species are protected in category A (Direction de l’environnement, 2026).

On the Rohivai Tours lagoon safaris, full day and half day, feeding animals is on the list of things not allowed. On Onoku Services' canoe day, Teina Tuaiva's Blue Lagoon Cruise and Ocean Tour Bora Bora's private boat, touching marine life is not allowed.

Are the sharks dangerous?

The issuers’ word on danger is about feeding: the Service du tourisme ties serious accidents to it and calls it dangerous. On Lagoon Service's snorkel trip the guide gets in the water with you, and you can choose to stay on board and watch the sharks from the boat; on H2O Bora Bora's trip the guide is in the water at each stop when the boat can be safely moored.

The trips built around the animals

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A shorter trip for the animals only

Moana Adventure Tours' Eco Shark and Snorkeling Safari is a 2.5-hour afternoon trip by motorboat with several snorkel stops for black-tip reef sharks, stingrays and a coral garden near the barrier reef, from $107 (checked November 2026). Snorkelling equipment is included and food and drinks are not; the animals are not guaranteed. H2O Bora Bora's small-group trip on GetYourGuide spends 3.5 hours at 3 or 4 stops, always including a manta ray site, a coral garden and an eagle ray site, from $128 (checked November 2026). It is not suitable for people with back problems, mobility impairments, heart problems or pre-existing medical conditions, wheelchair users, or anyone over 130 kg (287 lb) or over 80.