March 25, 2013
This is the beginning of a long trip
with a group of Germans,Swiss, and English aboard. We arrived to San
Benedicto today in beautiful conditions. Humpback Whales welcomed us
with tail slaps and lots of “spouts” everywhere. Our check out
dive was at Las Cuevas. We descended and found decent visibility,
some 15m, and water temp. at 23 C (74 F). My group was first to have
a go into the caves and as we entered a few white tip reef sharks
circled. We continued through the cave and double-backed. Near the
entrance of the cave we found a large green sea turtle sleeping. I
can’t believe we didn’t notice him on our first pass through the
cave! He didn’t move so we tried not to bother him too much and
continued to the next cave. Another white tip reef shark circled. We
passed through and made our way to the shallows. I wanted to see if
we could find some more turtles. Sure enough we found two turtles
riding the surge but they wanted nothing to do with us and continued
on about their business. We found other interesting things like many
giant pacific electric rays and scorpionfish. It was a nice start to
the trip. We ended the day with Chef Tony’s famous barbeque on the
bow.
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia
Dive Report, March 26th, 2013.
EL Cañon, San Benedicto Island.
The dives at EL CAÑON could not be
better! A vis. of 80'+ and water temp in the mid 70's, a mild current from
east brought to us what we were hoping to see this morning: schooling
hammer heads!!! They came up right
to our faces and over our heads, so close that we could almost touch them!
I am talking about about big big fat hammerheads with 7 to 9' long!! At the corner
in the dive site a black giant pacific manta was there gliding in slow
motion swimming to the delight all of us while getting cleaned by clarion angelfish!! As the day progressed on 2 other different dives
we had the luck of finding a tiger sharks on each dive! You want to know
where? At the corner!!! So pleasant to see then swimming with no
hurry!! Coming straight at you! Were able to see every stripe on
them!! So we had a day of manta, hammer heads, silver tips, tiger
sharks, white tips and to top it off the company of playful dolphins!!
Dive Inst Daniel Zapata
Dive Report March 27, 2013
We started our dive day at El Cañón with a water temperature in the mid 70's F (22C) and a visibility of 80 ft/25 m. On the first dive we saw a school of
about 50 hammerhead sharks that cruised by the cleaning station, they
did a couple passes by and before disappearing into the blue. In the second dive the hammerheads were
still around and we had the great opportunity to find a 10 feet tiger
shark made its parade in front of all the divers, everyone could see
this “mystique” striped shark.
In the third and the fourth dive we
didn’t see that many hammerheads, 1 or 2 here and there, but
several juvenile silver tip sharks were getting cleaning over the
famous corner/cleaning station.
During the surface intervals we enjoyed
lots of humpback whale activity, splashes, breaches and tail
slapping.
Erick Higuera
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