Hi friends!
Here we are on our trip number 11 of
our Guadalupe season!
Day 1, we had all of our guests on the
boat ready to go and after doing our safety drill at about
1:30pm...off we go!...saying good bye to the marina sea lion colony
and starting our crossing once again to the blue water island!
The crossing was a little rough with
medium to high swell, air temperature on the low 70's but that didn't
change the mood on the boat, the crew was joking and laughing as
always and the guests where very excited and couldn't wait for the
next morning to come and get in the water with the magestic Guadalupe
great whites!
We woke up the next morning to a nice
sunny day, air temperature was on the medium to high 70's and at
about 8:30am we saw the island!...everybody started asking at what
time we would be in the water and it was at 9:30 when we anchored at
the island and at 9:50 the first diver hit the water!...after 40
minutes of throwing bait in the water the first shark showed up!...a
big female of about 14ft. came to say hello to our divers and take
the first peace of chum!, while clouds would come down from the top
of the island like a cloud waterfall...excellent show!
After that people started going into
the submersible cage with Instructor Dany, who was happy to take our
GoPro camera to show everybody on the saloon TV what was happening
down at 25ft.! There the water was pretty warm, 73F, whats made us
think maybe action was not gonna be so good, but the rotation kept
going all day with some on and offs on the shark action. That day we
saw 4 different sharks, 3 males and the big female that kept coming
around until 6pm exciting everybody in the cages!
After all that excitement we finished
our day with a great mexican BBQ that our chef Tony prepared for
us!..excellent tacos and off to bed!
Next day in the morning we woke up to a
windy day, what made us take the decision of not going in to the
submersible cage that day, putting our guests safety first as always
on Solmar V!
Anyway the back cages had rotation all
day until about 4:40pm, when sharks stop coming by, in total we had
7 different sharks, 1 of them a big 14ft female and the rest were all
about 10-12ft males, a stripped marlin that swing by the cages and
also a California sea lion that made everybody think...What are you
doing here??? Don't you see the great whites???....after dancing
around the cages and trying to get the chum that hangs from the boat
on a plastic box, with no success, swam away unharmed.
Last day of cage diving on this trip
and again 8am...first diver in the water!
It took only 25 minutes this time for
our first visitor to come by...a 12ft. Male great white started the
show and every body started asking us...submersible cage
today???...and the answer was YES!...at 8:30 we started the rotation
on that cage and it didn't stop until 3pm!...we had a lot of action
down at 25ft. Where the 2 12ft males came around several times
swimming really close to the cage and giving our divers a great show!
At the end we think the high water
temperature is giving us less shark action but once again another
great Guadalupe Solmar V trip!
Antonio
Dive Instructor
Solmar V
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