Friday, April 6, 2012

5 males competed against each other by performing breaches, lobtails, flipper slap several times in a row

Hi all from the amazing Roca Partida!
  
The weather has been treating us very well here, although the morning
was cloudy the ocean was so flat, water temp in the low 70's, with a vis. 70'+.
I would like to say we are having so much fun here with this group of 20 Mexicanos guided by Dave, Eric and myself Daniel. The first dive of the day was by 8:30, as usual the east side wall was always full of life!  We descended and right away we had the white tips sharks along the rock and we found a big school of creolefish, much larger than we normally see!  We spent most of the dive on just one side of Roca (no need to do a long swim), while listening to the humpback whales singing the entire dive! Towards the end of our dive we saw some silver tips and about a few galapagos sharks.
If I need to add something else it will be that didn't need to wait to much time into the second dive before we had 6 dolphins playing in the area and they came back 2 more times after that to let us swimm along with them.  Afterwards we decided to drift north in the current, and as we passed the northern point, we just happened to drift into the right spot at the right time, for about 10 minutes we watched a never ending parade of yellow fin tunas coming from north to south end and 3 hours later we are still listening the whales, before safely ending our dive with the standard 3 minutes safety stop! 
During the surface time Pancho and Geronimo took us all in the zodiacs to chase the whales we've been listening too and we were in for an amazing display of power!!! 5 males competed against each other by performing breaches, lobtails, flipper slap several times in a row, they very aggressive toward one another while competing for females!
The third dive had even more action with walls more of fish and two species of sharks each occupying their respective northern and southern points of roca.  On the north point we found about some hammerheads at the south point we ran into galapagos sharks!
    Well is time to say HASTA LA VISTA!!
    Dive Inst. Daniel Zapata

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