Our day at Roca Partida was challenging! We had a bit of wind all day and some larger than average swells, and is a reminder of why Socorro is an advanced dive destination. Water temperature was about 77-78 F and a strong northern current brought up green water with a limiting our visibility, but even so, there were a lots of whitetip reef sharks everywhere, swimming between all of us without caring!
On the first dive, we had the opportunity to dive and play with a pod of at least 20 bottlenose dolphins that hang out the first 15 min of the dive, wait for Adil’s 5 min video trip report and check how much fun we had with these dolphins! Besides the dolphins, Dave and his group found a huge school of hammerheads, could see them only from far away though, these sharks were beyond their reach, at least at 150’ deep! By the third dive the visibility got a bit poor, about 20’, but as soon as we dropped at the north point, several Galapagos and Silvertip sharks hang out there, they kept coming back and forth and getting so close to the divers that the ones with cameras had the chance to capture great pictures, everybody else left great memories!
Far away from the rock we could see a huge school of yellowfin tunas swimming in the blue. Unfortunately because of the conditions we decided not to stay another day at Roca another day, now off to Socorro Island! We're hoping for better conditions and amazing dives at our next stop!
Stay tuned!
Erick
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