History
Back in the day, manta rays had a terrible reputation for being some type of sea monster. Old fishermen’s stories would talk about how manta rays would attack their small vessels and cause havoc. On top of that, their odd shape would often scare people when they saw them out in the wild.
This reputation attached its name to the manta ray and caused a negative stigma to grow around them. But people who dealt with them on a regular basis always knew that a lot of the mainstream information on them simply was not true. Things needed to be changed and their good name needed to be known.