DIVE
REPORT JAN 23RD, 2014
We
started our last day of the trip doing our first dive early in the
morning hoping to find the pod of dolphins that gave us a show on the
first day of the trip. At the beginning of the dive several dolphins
played at the surface, when we got in the water only 4 stayed around
just for a brief time, suddenly something happened that made them to
took off like crazy and didn’t come back again.
At
the corner of the cleaning station, several juvenile Silvertip Sharks
were getting cleaned by Butterfly Fishes, this time the current was not
blowing to bring up some hammerhead sharks, but still few here and there, and a few cruised along the ridge.
After
the first dive we went offshore in the quest of some possible
baitballs, we found some but they had just yellow fin tunas that swam
so fast that we could not keep up with them after several attempts,
it was time to go back to scuba diving. We had two more dives before we set sail for Cabo.
The
water conditions around San Benedicto were not the ideal,
there have been huge swells coming from south and north and have
been crashing on the beach thus removing the sand that has gone
offshore drifting trough the dive sites limiting the visibility to
only 20-30’/6-10m, so we took the chances and anchored at El Boiler
hoping to enjoyed some more mantas before to go back to Cabo San
Lucas.
So,
going down along the stern anchor and as soon as we reached
the anchor, oh yeah, the Mantas were around! Even though the visibility
was limited the friendly mantas kept coming back and forth, we just
needed to stay in one spot and wait for them. We saw a total of
9 different playful mantas that closed this trip with a golden
ribbon!
Hasta
la próxima
amigos!
Erick
Higuera
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