Today was our second day at the amazing rock in the middle of nowhere, Roca Partida. It was a day filled with sharks and tuna. There has been a strange thermocline in the water surrounding Roca. The temperature has been ranging from 70 degrees F to 73 degrees F. This mixing of water seemed to bring lots of nutrients from a mixing currents and brought lots of action to the rock. Each dive today we watched a mixed school of 40+ galapagos, hammerheads, and silvertips swim circles around the rock. In addition. we had so many yellowfin tuna you could never come close to counting. The tuna were actively feeding and we even had a rare glimpse of them spawning. In the blue on the second dive, we found a huge school of 50 hammerheads swimming tightly together. Besides all the sharks and tuna we had an so many fish in the water column: cottonmouth jacks, black jacks, big eye trevally, triggers, creolefish and more. It was absolutely breathtaking. The Russians loved it! Another successful visit to our favorite rock.
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia
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