Thursday, January 31, 2013

It was a full scale manta attack!


Greetings Solmar Fans!
We had a full day of diving here in Isla Socorro filled with some great sightings. We spent the entire day here at Cabo Pearce.
Our first dive showed some of the best visibility we have ever seen here. You could view the whole dive site which is quite large with easily more than 100 ft. visibility. There were a few mantas around but they weren't in a very playful mood. There were also a few hammerheads spotted, that stayed a little deep. It wasn`t until the second dive that the mantas really showed up. It was a full-scale manta attack. There seemed to be mantas from all directions. I counted five at one time and at least 10 individual mantas checked in at the cleaning station. We had mantas of all sizes and even had a little mobula following one of the Giant Pacific Mantas. It was an unforgettable dive. Our third dive, however, was the highlight. The mantas were there, although not in great numbers. Whatever was lacking in numbers of mantas was made with dolphins. Dolphins dove down to us and swarmed us taking out attention away from the mantas. It was amazing to have mantas and dolphins and divers all in one experience. The last dive had a couple of mantas and I'm sure they must have been exhausted from the exciting day! So we spent more time examining the reef octopus, scorpionfish, flounders, and eels. It was a relaxing dive, and a heck of a day.
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia

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