DIVE REPORT JAN
22ND
, 2014
Today we started our
scuba diving adventure at San Benedicto. We arrived this morning after two days at “Roca Partida” and the first dive site we stopped at was “El Boiler”, the
weather conditions were not the best, water temperature around
77ºF/25ºC and visibility less than 30 feet/10 meters, but still our
divers were able to see the dolphins and a giant manta around the
rock. At the end of the dive the current got pretty strong so for the
second dive we had to use the stern line to descend to the rock. The
visibility was poor and because of the current, some of the divers
stayed close to the rock and some others drifted with the current. A
family of three divers found a giant manta and she stayed with them
around 30 minutes, very friendly and playful with the bubbles.
For the third dive
of the day we moved to “El Cañon”, the visibility was better
here and the current wasn’t bad. We were following the rock
formation looking for mantas and sharks. A group of three white tip
sharks were hanging out on the sand, so the divers had the
opportunity to take some good pictures of them. Also we saw
octopuses, a spotted moray eel, a zebra moray eel and lobsters hidden
on the rocks. The last dive of the day we did it on this same dive
site, for this dive the visibility was better, around 40 feet so we
decided to go further out following a school of jacks, kicking
against the current for a bit but we had our reward, a hammer head
shark came towards us and a couple more were below.
This is our dive
adventure today, we hope tomorrow the weather conditions improve a bit as we have another fantastic day of diving ahead of us!
Pablo
DM onboard the
Solmar V
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