Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Que onda amigos! Playful mantas and a baitball at San Benedicto!


Que onda amigos!

Well today the visibility didn’t treat us well at El Cañon but we had a great dive with this single Manta that found us at 90’ deep and by the time we had seen it our bottom time was getting over so we had to start swimming up but this Manta followed us all the way to the safety stop! And followed us to the pangas! When we were going onboard of the pangas the Manta was still playing underneath of one of the pangas, so we continued to play with it, it kept coming toward our heads and once it was passing over us, it did loops! Dave and I shared time in swimming over its belly, we did at least like 5 times until we ran out of air..

We did the second and third dive in Cabo Fear, even that the visibility wasn’t neither good here, we got to see quite of few Mantas that were cruising by and only 3 stand by to play the bubbles game.

By the 4th dive of the day we decided to go back to El Boiler and end our day, unfortunately the visibility wasn’t even better, though there were 2 Mantas a Black and a Chevron one that made our last dive incredible.

We came back to surface and watched how like in 1 mile away the birds were flying all together and going crazy like if sometime was going on, so “let’s check it out" is what one of the divemasters said, we got out there jumped to the water and he was totally right, sometime was going on underneath the waves, a baitball! It was a small bait ball I would say these fishes were like baby Red Snappers but even if they were to small it lured the predators in, Bottlenose Dolphins and Yellow Fin Tunas were in the action, we had an amazing time with this once in a while event of the Nature.

Tonight we’ll go to Roca Partida. Stay tuned up and don’t miss the Roca
dive report!

Erick Higuera


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