What a great day here at Isla Socorro! This morning we awoke to the sun kissing the sky in an explosion of reds, purples, and yellows. A collage of colors silhoutted the welcoming Isla Socorro. We had an amazing day of diving on one dive site, Punta Tosca. What made it even more exciting is that it was our first time diving this site all season. Our first dive greeted us with 76 degree (F) surface temp., light current, and 40 ft. visibility. Within seconds of entering the water, we had a manta. It was a very friendly manta as it made passes around the entire group. The manta even stopped and enjoyed the bubbles of more than a few divers. As we slowly drifted the wall, the manta followed and more mantas joined the fun. We then had three mantas until the dive's end. Dive two started much the same way, as a manta eagerly awaited our entry into the water. The stronger current, moved us along the wall a little faster. We spotted a few white tip sharks and we could hear dolphins, but couldn't see them yet. We could hear the pangas zipping far overhead exciting the chirps and clicks of the dolphins so we knew they were close.. Dolphins appeared and swam zipped in front of us. They were curious this morning approaching very close. Even as we drifted from the wall, they continued swim circles around us. The highlight was one dolphin allowed one group to gently touch it for over a minute. There is a great pic and some "gopro" footage as you can imagine. Even as we surfaced the dolphins bounded from the ocean around us and they were bowriding almost all the way back to the Solmar V. Dive three at Punta Tosca was very nice. We drifted the wall slowly taking time to point out octopus, white tip sharks, and eels. We even spotted a few hammerheads here and there. We were surprised when a group of 60 hammerheads graced our presence. Not more than five minutes later a group of 30 or so hammerheads were seen silhoutted against the sun. Once in the panga, as many as 15 mantas were seen in the area feeding on the surface. A few jumped in to snorkel as they watched the mantas sommersault mouth wide open to feed on the microscopic plankton. It was a memorable day here in Socorro and looking forward to more days like this one heading to Roca Partida tomorrow. Until next time.... Dave Valencia
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