It was a bit windy topside but the conditions underwater were great. Temperature was 74f/24C and the viz ranged from 60ft/18m to 100ft/30m.
50 minutes of non-stop manta action with passing tunas.
The best dive of the day was definitely
the first one and as soon as we dropped in the water there was a
manta in shallow water waiting for us and it was being extremely
curious, after 15 minutes three more mantas showed up. Two of them
were getting cleaned by the clarions at one point with up to 10
clarions on one of them. It was a great 50 minutes with nonstop manta
action and at the end on our safety stop a school of tunas passed by.
Hammerhead Action.
The second and third dives were also
very good. Mantas around the dive site, lots of jacks and some
juvenile Galapagos sharks showed up. BUT the other highlight of the
day was the last dive where the current picked up and we made it to
one of the deeper cleaning stations. We all waited patently to see if
something showed up and it did! A school of 16 hammerheads passed by
very close and we swam off the reef and into the school and they
circled us. It was amazing!
Tonight we are heading to Roca Partida for some more fantastic diving.
Thiago Mendonca
Dive Instructor
Solmar V
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