Dr Sumanshi Singh

Sumanshi, a general surgeon from Delhi, India, had just completed her training in March. Amidst the routine and pressures of the medical world, who would have thought that the sea is where she found solitude, wonder and even a new purpose in life?
Having grown up on a ship due to her father’s career in the merchant navy, the ocean once felt like home. But as she entered the demanding world of medicine, her connection to the sea faded. It wasn’t until a friend invited her to dive again that the spark was reignited. “The first time I went underwater, I remembered everything I had forgotten. It was like meeting a childhood friend I hadn’t seen in years,” she recalls.
Since then, diving has become more than a hobby it’s become a reconnection. And that connection found
its purest expression at Manta Point with Ceningan Divers, where she encountered manta rays for the first time.

Drawing Manta Rays: An Unexpected Shift in Perspective
Sumanshi is no stranger to sketching she has plenty of experience drawing intricate human anatomy.
That’s why her first dive with Ceningan Divers felt familiar in an unexpected way like sketching something
entirely new, this time beneath the ocean’s surface.
“After seeing the manta rays move with such grace, I had to capture them on paper. It was my way of holding on to that moment.”

“The more I drew, the more I noticed the details. And with every line, I realized how incredible and vulnerable they are.”