Hola amigos!
Here we are on our 11th trip
of this season and the great whites keep giving us a lot of
excitement!
To start the trip with the right foot
we left with a great weather which gave us a great and VERY smooth
crossing to the island, so smooth that we got there earlier than
normal and by 9am we already had our divers in the water! Not much
later, probably not even half an hour, the first great white showed
up! A quick start, but after that it slowed down for quite a while, but not even that made the sharks come up, probably
because of the warm water at the surface, 74F/23.8C, so for a few
hours only our submersible cage saw most of the action as the temperature was a
little cooler at 30ft, around 71F/21.6C. But around 4pm a big 12ft
male showed up and gave us good action for the last couple of hours.
In total we had probably 5 or 6 different sharks coming to check us
out, not bad for the first day!
Our second day started with a quick
pass 10 minutes after we threw the bait in the water, then it slowed
down again as it did the day before, but the action in the
submersible cage did not stop! We had a great day down there, we
had thousands of little sardines under and around the boat and that
attracted a bunch of huge yellow fin tunas that obviously spent the
day hunting next to our cages and in between all of that action we
had the great whites gracefully swimming around, we had up to 3
sharks at the same time, non stop action when suddenly out of the
blue a 20ft/6m whale shark showed up! Yes you are reading
correctly a WHALE SHARK! It actually scared the great whites and
they left for a few minutes when they saw this bigger shark next to
them! So the whale shark came around the submersible cage about 3
times, swimming slowly and pretty much posing for our
cameras! What a great surprise very unusual for these area, but still very awesome
for us to see it!
So after the whale shark left the great
whites came back and kept us entertained for the rest of the
afternoon!
Our last day of diving started slow
again, with an early pass and then nothing for a while, but slowly
sharks started coming up and spending a little more time at the
surface and by 12:30pm the show started, males started coming after
the bait, one at the time,showing their enormous jaws to all of our
divers both under and above the water...what a great way to end the trip!
Antonio Romero
Dive Instructor
Solmar V
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