April 3, 2013
Ahh…back to our familiar Isla San
Benedicto, this is such a great place! We had some wind today so we
tucked in here at El Canyon and had a great day of diving and
snorkeling. Our first dive started with lots of excitement. The vis.
was good at 50'+ and there were already dolphins waiting for us! We
dropped in from the pangas and instead of following the dolphins, my
group was captivated by a friendly manta. This manta wanted all the
attention and swam from diver to diver and even followed us to the
cleaning station. At the cleaning station we had a school of 20 or so BIG hammerheads. We saw some silvertips as well.
As we explored a little more we found even more hammerheads. They
were everywhere, just not in a structured school. What a great start
to the day. Our second dive also had many hammerheads and another manta! The third and fourth dive brought some poor visibility so we
offered people the opportunity to snorkel with whales instead. It was
a very good idea because we found a friendly momma and baby! They took
some warming up, but by the afternoon they were allowing people to
hang out for a little while before moving on. They did interact a
little bit and everyone was able to see the whales underwater! It’s
one thing to see their behavior from the surface but a completely
different experience to feel them next to you underwater. Even the
size of the baby dwarfs any diver. It’s a definite wow experience
and one we all got to share today.
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia
Dive Report April 04th, 2013.
El Boiler
We felt like we were dropped in a fish
tank with lovely music from humpback whale the entire dive, fish
everywhere of all types, and 12 dolphins made this dive very special.
They broke up into two schools letting us follow them in different
directions, the diver + dolphins interaction were incredible as the
playful dolphins would come super close to our divers! It was a very
easy dive and very fun dive with a great vis up to 120ft with a warm
water temp in the mid 70's. We ended the dive by drifting away from
the rock hoping to see a whale and we had an endless song of
vocalizations so loud that could feel the vibrations in our body!
Taking advantage of the flat ocean we went cruising for bait balls!
We got in the water several times looking for bait balls, but this
time instead of lots of sharks and tunas predating on the bait ball,
it was 20 to 30 marlins and sail fish hunting! There were some sharks
but not a lot of them! A unique way to finish a 14 days trip!
Dive Inst Daniel Zapata
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