Four playful mantas circled around our divers again and again!

Hi Everyone

It was our first full-day of diving and we found ourselves very satisfied here at San Benedicto. Our day was spent on El Canon. Our first dive had amazing visibility at 60'-70', slight current, and 71 degree (F) surface temp. The dive started with bottlenose dolphins swimming towards the back of the boat as divers jumped in. The dolphins chirped and clicked as one really fired up dolphin swam circles around us. This one followed us all the way to the corner as we looked for hammerheads. Two or three hammerheads showed up and then we had two mantas with the dolphins present themselves to the divers. It was a fabulous display! We even spotted a four dolphins overhead and observed them chasing jacks. We finished our dive with a few more hammerheads before heading back to the Solmar V.

Our second dived showed a little more current so we decided to go from the panga and drop in. Right away we had a hammerhead make a nice pass near the receiver. No others showed up, however, so we drifted back to the corner. There was pair of juvenile silvertip sharks cruised by. As we made our way back to the boat we ran into the other groups who were enjoying some manta action. Four mantas circled around all the groups again and again making for some very good video and pictures. The mantas were even forming a conga line following the leader dropping and rising all together. What an amazing dive!

On our third and fourth dives we enjoyed the green morays, scorpion fish and lots of octopus. Were looking forward to some more manta action tomorrow as we head to one of our favorite cleaning stations.

Until next time....

Dave Valencia