Today we dove at Roca Partida, having a great day with an early dive with two mantas, many white tips laying on the ledges and the rock full of all kind of fishes. The tunas showed up along the day rushing and hunting around the site while in the deep we could spot hammerheads and silver tips. The highlight of the day was definitely a big whale shark that came from under 120 feet to give a quick glimpse, but we could estimated about 30 feet long, a pregnant female.
The conditions were good with calm seas, mild current and good visibility about 60 feet / 20 meters.
Lets see what Roca has to show to us.
Rodrigo Marroquin, dive instructor.
Monday, December 19, 2016
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Dec 16, 2016
The first full day of diving on this trip. We were in San Benedicto, the dive site El Boiler where we did four dives. The water temperature was 77F and the visibility around 50 feet. The current was heading North in the morning, for the afternoon dives changed direction to South. The first dive we did, we had a group of dolphins swimming with us for a long time and also three mantas, one black and two chevron. For the second dive three chevron mantas and one black; but the best part of the dive was when a tiger shark showed up. For the third dive we went out into the blue to look for big animals. We saw a hammerhead a Galapagos shark and when we were returning to El Boiler, a huge school of skip jack passed, it was so big that we couldn't see the beginning and the end at the same time. Finally the fourth dive of the day, and the mantas came back to us; two chevron and one black were there. At the end of the day the people were very happy diving in El Boiler.
Pablo DM
Pablo DM
Friday, December 16, 2016
Dec 15, 2016
San Benedicto ,15th December 2016
Hi All !!
Today we dove at Cabo Pearce where we found very interesting rocks formations with few hard corals ,lots of tropical fish as pacific trigger fish ,morish idols , barberfish and moray eels .The water temperature was 77 º f / 26 º C and the visibility was 50 ft /15 m .At the very last of the dive a curious silky shark comes close to the descent line during the safety stop .It was circling around us closer and closer each time and the divers love to it see it !!
See you soon !!
Ignacio H. Leyro
Hi All !!
Today we dove at Cabo Pearce where we found very interesting rocks formations with few hard corals ,lots of tropical fish as pacific trigger fish ,morish idols , barberfish and moray eels .The water temperature was 77 º f / 26 º C and the visibility was 50 ft /15 m .At the very last of the dive a curious silky shark comes close to the descent line during the safety stop .It was circling around us closer and closer each time and the divers love to it see it !!
See you soon !!
Ignacio H. Leyro
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Dec 10, 2016
The last day of SCUBA diving for this trip. We are back to San Benedicto
and the dive site is El Boiler for four dives. The water temperature
was 77 and the visibility 40 feet. For the first dive we had dolphins
following us and two mantas deep in the blue. On the second dive the
mantas were more friendly and three of them were swimming with the
divers most of the time. After lunch we did dives three with two mantas
in shallow water and a third one close to the bottom. The last dive was
the one with more manta activity, during the 60 minutes of the dive we
saw five mantas, two black and three chevron. Also a black tip shark was
swimming in between a big school of jack fish. Also we saw white tip
sharks, green moray eel, lobsters and colorful fish during the dives.
Pablo DM
Pablo DM
Dec 9, 2016
Roca Partida ,december 9th 2016
We have no words to describe all the good stuff we found today diving at Roca Partida !! .Absolutely gorgeous ! .At the northern corner we found 2 Mantas Chevron circling from the rock to the blue , swimming up and down , when 2 big silvertip sharks were chasing them and finally dissapear . A huge school of bonitas comes from the east and was sourrended by 7 sylky sharks .when we check the ledges at the eastern face of the rock ,lots of whitetip sharks were there .The current was strong from south to north then we drift to the north for the second dive and the mantas showed up again and the school of bonitas was closer to the island this time , and a big school of amberjacks was close to the rock .we saw big eye jacks ,tropical fish like puffers and morish idols ,The water temperature was 78 º f / 26 º C , and the visibility was 80 ft / 24 m .Diving at the southern corner , the current was lesser thats why we chek the ledges with whithetips for the last time and we drift from south to north this time .At south we found schools of amberjacks ,trevalley jacks and from the depth a beautiful galapagos sharks showed up !! and a silvertip was deeper .we drift along the western face of the rock which is plenty of hard coral and sea urchins and at the nortwest a manta chevron was there .to finish the dive wewent to blue and lots of wahoos were in the blue .beautiful day !! see you soon !!
ignacio hernan leyro
scuba instructor
We have no words to describe all the good stuff we found today diving at Roca Partida !! .Absolutely gorgeous ! .At the northern corner we found 2 Mantas Chevron circling from the rock to the blue , swimming up and down , when 2 big silvertip sharks were chasing them and finally dissapear . A huge school of bonitas comes from the east and was sourrended by 7 sylky sharks .when we check the ledges at the eastern face of the rock ,lots of whitetip sharks were there .The current was strong from south to north then we drift to the north for the second dive and the mantas showed up again and the school of bonitas was closer to the island this time , and a big school of amberjacks was close to the rock .we saw big eye jacks ,tropical fish like puffers and morish idols ,The water temperature was 78 º f / 26 º C , and the visibility was 80 ft / 24 m .Diving at the southern corner , the current was lesser thats why we chek the ledges with whithetips for the last time and we drift from south to north this time .At south we found schools of amberjacks ,trevalley jacks and from the depth a beautiful galapagos sharks showed up !! and a silvertip was deeper .we drift along the western face of the rock which is plenty of hard coral and sea urchins and at the nortwest a manta chevron was there .to finish the dive wewent to blue and lots of wahoos were in the blue .beautiful day !! see you soon !!
ignacio hernan leyro
scuba instructor
Dec 8, 2016
Today we are at San Benedicto, back at "el Boiler" having great action with mantas and dolphins.
The conditions are good, with 20 meters / 60 feet of visibility, warm water 25 C / 78 F, no current and a little bit of swell at the surface.
On the first dive we saw a big group of 20 dolphins swimming next to the divers at 90 feet / 30 meters reaching the surface and diving again to get clean by the endemic clarion fishes. For the next to dives the dolphins didn´t appear but we got to see 7 different mantas, with one specific individual, the friendliest black manta we have seen. It came towards the divers back and forth trying to get a the bubbles in their bellies and giving a great spectacle to our guests. Along the day we could spot a big school of amber jacks swimming close to the pinnacle and on the top we encounter more than 10 white tips swimming along with the trumpet fishes, blue jacks and the yellow tail trigger fishes.
Great day and waiting for more tomorrow at Roca Partida.
Rodrigo Marroquin, dive instructor.
The conditions are good, with 20 meters / 60 feet of visibility, warm water 25 C / 78 F, no current and a little bit of swell at the surface.
On the first dive we saw a big group of 20 dolphins swimming next to the divers at 90 feet / 30 meters reaching the surface and diving again to get clean by the endemic clarion fishes. For the next to dives the dolphins didn´t appear but we got to see 7 different mantas, with one specific individual, the friendliest black manta we have seen. It came towards the divers back and forth trying to get a the bubbles in their bellies and giving a great spectacle to our guests. Along the day we could spot a big school of amber jacks swimming close to the pinnacle and on the top we encounter more than 10 white tips swimming along with the trumpet fishes, blue jacks and the yellow tail trigger fishes.
Great day and waiting for more tomorrow at Roca Partida.
Rodrigo Marroquin, dive instructor.
Dec 7, 2016
Today we dove in Socorro Island, the water temperature was 79 and the
visibility around 40 feet, the current was quite strong for the first
and third dive. We did three dives today because we had to to the check
in at the Navy base. For the first dive we had one black manta, a silver
tip shark and a group of dolphins. For the second dive we had one manta
and some big tunas crossing the reef. The third dive was the best of
the day, the current was much stronger than the first dive. We we
hanging from a rock where we saw a small tiger shark, after that one of
the groups so another one, but this was bigger and the shark was chasing
a school of bonitas. One chevron manta showed up and stayed with us for
a long time, also tunas were close enough to take pictures of them,
passing between divers.
Pablo DM
Pablo DM
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