Hola from Roca Partida!
Today was a breathtaking day according to our guests!
For the first dive, we decided to drop in on the north eastern part of the rock, but just getting there was fun! We had dolphins riding the waves in front of the zodiacs all the way to launch spot. SO we get down to about 40' deep and the surge coming off of the rock instead of making it a bad dive, helped to keep the white tip sharks out and about. There was a slight current coming from the south west, but it was not bad, so we decided to swim into it while following the clicking and "singing" from a pod of 20 dolphins! At the south western point, a lot was happening. It's difficult to put into words the size of a massive school of black skip jacks. We had silver tip sharks and galapagos sharks swimming in and out of the area. For one minute we were alone in mid water with almost no fish at all, then the next second we were surrounded!
The second dive started from the south western point, and we decided to go further into the blue this time, where we saw big schools of fish and where all the action was! We were surrounded by large schools that would part ways as we swam in the middle of them! Shadows of near by silver tip and Galapagos sharks got our adrenaline pumping, even though we know they were only interested in the large yellow fin tuna that were close by! We were swimming along the north east wall between a lot of white tips and more yellowfin tuna, but what really stole the show was as we were enjoying 20 galapagos sharks we could see another group of hammerheads just to the south! We got up to our safety stop towards the end of the dive, when a large school of black jacks decided to hang near us, and out of the blue came 10 adult dolphins and one excited calf that swam circles around us at lightning speed!
Our last dive of the day had a little bit of everything form the dives before, but one group led by our Dive Instructor David Valencia ran into a school of over 100 sharks composed of silver tips, galapagos, and hammerheads! Water temp was 71F below thermocline, but the temp didn't bother anyone because of all the excitement! Average vis. was 60'+ with a surface water temp of 77F.
Roca was so good we decided to stay another day!
Gracias!
Instr. Daniel
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