Dive Report Jan
30th,
2014.
We had an amazing day
spent at Roca, with good surface conditions: sunny, mild breeze, 80 ˚F! Swells
3 to 4ft. We noticed a bit
of current from West, the water column from surface to depth was full
of fish all types, Vis was well over 100ft/30m, water temp 77 ̊F/25˚C.
At depth we checked out the north point a bit where we found 6 silver tip
sharks, so we go pass the school of fish like into the blue, and it is
amazing just to float neutral at this depth, you look behind lots of
fish and the other side just blue! We drifted south encountering
coming at us 8 Galapagos sharks, on the south point the current took
us to a place to enjoy the rest of the dive in the company of a
chevron manta.
Our surface interval
was sunny, relaxing and kept us all awake, there were humpbacks in the area, and you
can tell males chasing others while we think a female was just
relaxing about 200ft away from Solmar V.
After our surface interval, while we were descending we reached a
depth of 80ft/24m , and the wall of Roca was still beautiful. They were there, 50 to 60 hammerheads approximately
along with black jacks, we did not chase them at all, and as a reward they
stayed for long! Some of them swam straight at us posing for the pictures, then went into the deep we only saw shadows of them. You have to be
excited always about diving! The surface
conditions were still great for a third dive!
The place to start
was north point, just descending we noticed something going on, 15
to 20 white tips sharks were in feeding frenzy at only 40ft/12m, even
better have never seen one to happen day time! In the same area we
were eye witnesses to yellow fin tunas hunting for bait fish nonstop!
Galapagos shark came up to check it out, so curious! To end up the
dive we had once again the manta for a long safety stop, we never
felt alone while underwater since manta, fish, sharks, wahoo, tunas
were there.
Dive Inst
Daniel Zapata
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