Monday, January 23, 2012

Roca Partida

Hola from the one of a kind Roca Partida!
Today was an extraordinary day here, starting with very blue water and easily over 100' visibility.  Wild dolphins escorted us in the pangas from the Solmar V to all the way to the dive site.  We dropped in on the north eastern side of Roca where we found at least 15 white tip sharks guarding the ledge at 50' before we made our way to the northern point of Roca.  Galapagos sharks were coming in and out of the depths along with silver tip sharks.  After we made it around the northern point onto the western side we stayed by the wall and spent our time looking for camoflauged octopus!  
On our second dive we had no current so we were able to make it all the way around the rock!  We ran into even more white tip sharks and watched as green eels  slithered their way up the hard coral wall of Roca.  Out in the blue we saw a few galapagos sharks.
The third dive we stuck to just one side of the rock this time.  The eastern side of the rock was full of galapagos and silver tip sharks at all depths!  We also ran into a few good sized hammerheads plus some of the big yellow fin tuna in the photo below! Water temp was in the low 70's with 80'+ visibility and no current at all.
Dive Instructor Daniel

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