Roca Partida, Day 1

Roca Partida is our dive destination for the next two days; the water temperature is 75ºF/23ºC, the visibility was over 80ft/24m and the current coming from northeast. For the first dive after breakfast, we jumped in the water where the caves with the white tip sharks are piled! We swam to the northern point of the rock where all the action was happening; we had to hang out from the rock so the current didn’t take us away from the rock. The best part was the school of Galapagos sharks, 15 to 20 swimming against the current and not to deep, between 60ft/18m to 70ft/21m. After we moved into the blue where the silver tip sharks were, six or seven of them. Also the school of jack fishes and some yellow fin tuna passed by.
For the second dive we jumped in on the north side of the rock in the blue and drifted with the current towards the rock; the current wasn’t very strong so we had the opportunity to stay longer on the north side. We saw some Galapagos sharks, but this time they were in deep water. Another group saw the school of hammerheads, of well over forty sharks!
The last dive of the day we did after lunch. We jumped in again on the north side towards the east side of the rock, where the sharks were. Some white tip, Galapagos and Silver tip sharks were there. At the end of the dive, a school of yellow fin tuna passed by, some of them were very big around six feet long!
Now it´s time to have dinner, Tony’s salad, scampi shrimp with rice and chocolate cake.

Pablo DM onboard