10 different mantas gave us a manta parade

Hola amigos,

Here we are reporting our last dive day of this trip.

We started diving in Cabo Fear, only 2 dives and were “mantastic”. Going down we found a chilly termocline of 68 F, a strong current from the North and the visibility wasn’t really good, probably about 40’, but a school of 10 hammerheads approached to one of the dive groups and later on only one here another there and that’s it, but one Black Manta swam by and stopped as soon as she felt us we were there, so we started drifting with her and more mantas became showing up, all of a sudden we have seen a total of 10 different mantas at least that gave us a whole manta parade, even that the visibility wasn’t really good these mantas made us our dive. Another group
kept drifting and a saw a Tiger Shark a little shy but close enough to see it was a tiger.

In the second dive we stayed over the drop off in Cabo Fear, we heard dolphins, we looked around and there they were, 3 dolphins came by chasing Bigeye Jacks but unfortunately didn’t want to play like other times and left.

One Chevron Manta came by later and stayed the entire dive with us like always friendly mantas do, it was swimming back and forth over everyone’s heads, when our air was getting low we started coming up and drifting with the current and at the safety stop 2 more cruised by, a black and a chevron one, only the black stop briefly and we could take few good pictures because the sunrays were shining it up.

We went back to El Boiler to do the last 2 dives of the day and end our trip there and realized we had made the best decision, because basically both dives were mantastically outstanding, we saw about 12 different mantas in both dives, while one group was been entertained with 2 or 3 mantas here another group was over with other 3 mantas and the divers that were doing buddy teams have their own mantas, too!

What a marvelous day to end our trip….

We’re heading back to Cabo San Lucas, so we’ll be back in Revillagigedo in
few days, so stayed tuned.

Hasta la proxima

Erick Higuera

It’s amazing how mother nature can change from one day to another!

Hola Amigos!

Guess what!? The weather conditions have changed allowing us to dive El Boiler and it was magnificent!!

Just arriving to El Boiler at 7 in the morning and the dolphins were already playing at the surface, so we had the dive briefing and immediately jumped to the water to be part of the dolphin game! Having 71 F of water temperature and a visibility of more than 100’ that we could even see the bottom from the surface and it’s at 150’! Isn’t that great?

Anyway, as soon as we broke the liquid border we headed to the west side of El Boiler where normally the Bigeye Jacks hung out and we know already that this dolphins love to chase them every morning, they weren’t there but we could heard them, so we decided to hung out with the jacks for a while and suddenly from the dark blue we started seeing a group of 6 dolphins that were heading toward us here they come! We proceeded to have an amazing time with this small pod, and 3 of them showed us a behavior play like if were kissing, wait till you see Adil’s trip report on YouTube!
 
Not even enough with what we just had on the previous dive and the second dive was full of Manta action, 5 different Mantas have shown up to offer a close encounter with every single diver, besides the glamorous dance that they always do. By the third dive 2 more joined to the show and Daniel and his group decided to adventure in the blue and have success, saw several Hammerheads and thousands of Bigeye Jacks.

More than half of the divers decided not to do the fourth dive and instead that went out on the panga looking for Humpback Whales that have been breaching during our surface interval, though they didn’t have the chance to see them underwater, these whales were kind of shy. Some of the divers did the dive saw only one Manta that was waiting for some tickling bubbles.

It’s so amazing how mother nature can change from one day to another, just yesterday have been so windy that we couldn’t move from the south side of the island and this morning that blowing winds that have been hitting us
just vanished!

Tonight we’ll go to Roca Partida, stay tuned.

Erick Higuera

It was a windy day here on the island

Hola from Isla San Benedicto,

It was a windy day here on the island so we tried to make the best of things. Our first dive of the day showed some curent from the South west, a surface temp. of 70 degrees (F), and 30 ft. visibility. We spotted a single hammerhead crossing the reef, but no school on this dive. We instead made our way around the divesite enjoying all the eels, lobsters, octopus and scorpionfish El Canon has to offer.

Throughout the rest of the day the strong winds sustained, but we continued to press on and find the sharks and mantas this area offers. We had many manta sightings and a few good looks at some large hammerheads. All in all it was a challenging day. We're looking forward to improved conditions tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed. Until next time.

Dave Valencia

A manta came to say hello and stayed with us during both dives and our surface interval

Hi from San Benedicto Island,

Today was the last day of our trip.

We came last night form Roca Partida, and we started the day in El Cañon, were at first time in the morning a very friendly Manta came to say hello and stayed with us during both dives and our surface interval, near the boat, letting us snorkel with her. She was so friendly that it was so close to all our divers all the time, playing with them like a pet. During the dives we spotted some Silver Tip sharks, Ssome hammerheads, lot of Octopus and again our friend the manta following us the all time. After lunch we moved to The Bolier, and a couple of more Mantas came to our groups and stayed with them all the time. Even if visibilty wasn't the ideal (around 40 ft) the mantas came so close that all our photographer made their day.

At the end of the frist dive in The Boiler, we could enjoy an special moment when we got in the middle of an endless school of Pacific Creole Fish, that made everyone relax jus thovering in the middle, and fell that special connection that only the maginificence of nature can make with its creatures. The water temperature was around 73 degrees and visibility, as we said before was around 40 to 60 ft, it was no strong currents in the site and the sea was very calm today. Perfect conditions to say "see you soon" Socorro Islands.

Ricardo Tamaño

Another great diving day at Roca Partida

Hola from Roca Partida,

It was a sunny day full of great diving here at Roca Partida. Our first dive this morning had a strong current from the NE, great vis. at 100'+, and a chilly water surface temp. at 70 degrees (F). We started the dive in the cuevas with all of the white tip reef sharks. The sharks seemed to be huddling close together keeping warm. One ledge had 20 or more all piled on top of one another. My personal favorite is seeing all the newborns sleeping on a ledge but all you see at first are their ;little tail fins sticking out. It's about as cute as sharks get. Ok...we moved out into the blue to see a nice school of skip jack tuna and some yellowfin tuna. We even spotted quite a few galapagos and one or two silky sharks(it's our first sighting of silkies on roca in a few months). Dani's group was visited by a few dolphons just as they started their safety stop. Long enough for people to get a few shots. Welcome to Roca!

Our second dive started with a massive amount of big eye jacks and cotton mouth jacks filling the area around the north point. We were around 80 ft and looking up and there were so many, it seemed to darken the light from the sky. All slowly moving with the surge and current, it was mesmerizing.. At depth we watched on as Galapagos sharks and silky sharks lazily moved by. They seemed uninterested in us divers today, keeping mostly to themselves. It was still breath taking to be in the blue and be surrounded by such life. Of course we had a huge school of yellowfin tuna breeze by us effortlessly.

Our last dive of the day here at Roca started much like the last. We were engulfed by the large amounts of fish: triggers, creolefish, jacks of all kinds. On the outside of the fish were schools of tuna coming by again and again. Some were giants of more than 100 lbs. They were inquisitive and amazing. We also watched on as the numerous galapagos sharks and silkies swam in and out of the bait ball. It was another great diving day at Roca Partida!

Off to San Benedicto manana. Until next time...

Dave Valencia

An easy and spectacular day of diving.

Hi every one out there!
    We have great news for all of you about today's dives at San Benedicto
Island, Dive site EL BOILER.
    Our first dive started at 8:10AM off the back of Solmar V, very comfortable if you ask me! 3 groups as usual and one at the time guided by Dave Dive Instructor and marine biologist, Ricardo also Dive Instructor and myself Daniel, so underwater no need to swim around the whole rock since a school of bigeye trevally were there in just 50 ft of water, just a few minutes later we heard dolphins clicks and chirps that let us know they were heading towards us!Wait wait!! Just are we turn around 10 dolphins in front of us spreading out, we had them for minutes doing all kind of stuff chasing those bigeyes trevally, divers went crazy taking pictures of dolphins! Our whole dive took place with no need to swim,  the water Temp was 71f, vis about 60' but a very heavy surge, fun to ride too!!!
    On our second dive no dolphins but instead we had at the same time  5 big mantas for most of the dive, as background a very lousy humpback whale and just like the first dive no need to swim! Everything was right there! Also I need to add an 8 ft Galapagos shark came by a few times too!!
    The third dive was fun riding with the surge, no current at all but mostly fish, vis and water temp did not change at all! 
    For the fourth dive we have mantas AGAIN!! 50 minutes!! and don't want to go away! Black ones and Chevron, it was amazing that didn't remember to check water temp! No time! mantas first always!
    Ask me about today and I'll tell you it was a manta and dolphin day!!

Dive Instr. Daniel Zapata

We started our day in the best possible way

Hi Everyone!  

It was our second full-day of diving and we started in the best possible way, with several Dolphins jumping and playing near the boat during the breakfast time,to welcome us! We performed 3 dives today with Mantas approaching our groups, a impressive Tiger Shark, several Galapagos Sharks and more Mantas feeding right near the boat at a swiming distance.

During the day the wind started to pick up so we decided to make our 3rd dive in a calm bay near the divesite and explore the area, finding uncountable octopus, lobsters, and some white tip sharks. At the same time whales were breaching right on the divesites and we could spot them from the boat.

The water temperature was aroud 73 degrees at 100 ft. and we had more or less 60 fr visibility during the dives.- the current during the 2 first dives was strong with a challengiong swell at the divesite.

Now we are heading back to San Benedicto Island to meet with more Mantas,sharks and dolphins.

Until next time....

Ricardo Tamano