Tuesday, March 6, 2012

All the colors together over the reef make it look alive!

Hi All!! from San Benedicto Island!
    Well, we continue with our days of diving here, although the water temp remains the same 73f we did another 4 dives, mostly at dive area called DOS HERMANOS and of course at EL CAÑON TOO!
    Just to star the dive here we descend to 50' of water, beautiful colorful reef, lots of marine life! The vis was approximately 60 to 80', hard coral greens and brown, endemic orange clarion fish, lobsters, green moray eels, leather bass, jacks, scorpion fish, bright yellow long nose butterfly fish, barber fish, creolfish etc. All the colors together over the reef make it look alive and very healthy and more because the contrast of a brown rocky bottom with some Grey color sandy spots, during the dives, one time we had 5 mantas in the same frame other didn't stay for too long just flying by! It could be a cleaning station for mantas! If you go a bit deeper you will find several drop off along the dive area which is where we spoted a few hammer heads, also I have to say we found this top part of a cliff where 3 to 4 good size Galapagos sharks like to hang out, they came in and out repeatedly, a silky shark came in to say "Hi" too! Between dives it is always nice to rest on board the Solmar V, but we had to jump into our wet suits again right away! A bait ball was out there calling our names, so we got geared up go, got in the water and it was amazing to have the opportunity to see Yellow Fin tuna surrounding you! ah! And some of the yellow fin tunas displayed an interesting behavoir rubbing against the tail of silky sharks.
    Our dive at EL CAÑON was also good, at 80' of water sandy bottom we had probably 10 hammer heads, a manta flying by and is getting usual to see silver tip sharks at one the rocks too, 75' of water, i have to say vis at the worst 20' but other areas up to 50'. 
We hope you enjoy reading about our expeditions but there is only one
way to make it come true, join us!!!!
    Dive Inst. Daniel Zapata


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