We woke up at Roca Partida to a pair of humpback whales 100’ away from the Solmar V

Hi folks!

Today we woke up at Roca Partida and 2 Humpback Whales were doing some flukes only 100’ away of the Solmar V that was a good sign. At 8:00 am we started going down in the realm of Roca having a 70‘visibility, water temperature of 73 ºF, and a mild current, as soon as we rolled backwards from our zodiacs, a pod of about 30 dolphins welcomed us and had fun with our “dolphin kick style” for 30 min, it was incredible! The dolphins came so close a couple of divers almost touched one; later on we moved to the north point of Roca to encounter a group of 20 Galapagos and a few Silver Tip Sharks, all the sharks were gathering together and coming in and out,  while we hanged on the rocks observing the majestic shark “parade”. The sharks were gone and we headed for the east side of Roca to photograph and film the White Tip Sharks that were resting in the ledges, after 50 min we were doing our safety stop in the middle of the Pacific Creolefish column.

For our second dive, we had already a previous sharky encounter and well, we decided to stay only at the north point and again hang out on the corner to observe the shark parade one more time, this time the current had picked up so took us a little while to get the north corner, but worth the effort because this time there were like 30 to 40 sharks together, it was awesome!!

After the dive while we did our surface interval we realized that the whales we had seen in the morning were hanging out again by the boat, so few people gat in the water right away and could see them briefly.

Third dive of the day and the visibility had decreased to 50’ and only 5 galapagos and 3 silvertip sharks were still in the corner with tons of Whitemouth Jacks and a lots of Leather Jacks, after all this sealife action we came up to 30’ to see about 30 Yellow Fin Tunas that were cruising by.

Right now we are chilling out enjoying our famous Luis’s all flavors Margaritas, delicious!

Tomorrow we’ll do another Roca Partida dive day, stand by for more news! 

That’s all for today folks!

Erick H.