Monday, April 16, 2012

We are excited to start trip number 16!

Hola everyone!!!
    The checkout dive on our 16th trip of this season went just as planned and our divers are looking forward to the full days of diving ahead! We did our check out dive at EL FONDEADERO, at San Benedicto Island. On every trip we divide our divers into three small groups, each group to be led by different a dive master. This trip we have David, Ricardo, and myself Dani guiding!
  I went down first  to set our descent line to make it more fun to every one, the vis. was a great 50 to 60 ft which i enjoyed for a minute, the water temp a not bad 71f with no thermocline and as an added bonus there was also no current ar all!!!
    All 3 groups spread out covering dive area finding lots of different things! We saw green moray eels swimming free, lobsters out too, tiger snake eels, a manta swam by to welcome us back! The scorpion fish are good blending in so watch out!! In shallower water area around 40ft there was a lot of nice hard coral of varying tones of brown and greens, leather bass changing tone of skin color from a light brown to dark.  One way we keep ourselves entertained during the safety stop is if you try to count creolfish around you and before you know it your 3 minute safety stop is up!  We had a good 50 minute checkout dive and ready for tomorrow at EL CAÑON!
    Read from us tomorrow, we will have for sure great news!
    Dive Inst. Daniel Zapata

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