February 16th - February 26th, 2018 #TripReport (Socorro Islands)

Hola amigos! 

We had an 11 day trip this time and event though the weather conditions were not ideal, mostly overcast, windy and a little rough, but the diving rocked!

The highlights of this trip were the insane dolphin action at "El Boiler" in San Benedicto Island and "Cabo Pearce" in Socorro Island where we had up to 23 dolphins interacting with the divers for most of the dives, specially at Boiler we had so much action that was hard to decide where to look at when we had dolphins, mantas and hammerheads at the same time, just a mind blowing experience!. The other highlight was Roca Partida with its crazy shark action, we had lots of Galapagos, Silver tip and Hammer head sharks specially on the north side of the rock where the current was hitting the rock must of the time, and where a bunch of creole and trigger fish gathered and where being hunted by a huge tuna that pass by many many times and gave us pretty cool action.

While at Roca Partida we had a humpback whale that sticked to the area for the couple of days we were there so we decided to sacrifice one dive to go try to get in the water with it, but unfortunately it was just cruising to fast and we had no luck...BUT then 2 male Orcas showed up and we got close enough that we jumped in the water and a few of us had an amazing few seconds of watching this beautiful creatures in their element!

The manta action was a little slow this trip but we still had come good days like at "El Cañón" where we had up to 5 mantas dancing around us for quite a while!

Hasta la próxima!

Trip Conditions:

Temperature
78 F / 26 C
Visibility
80 feet / 24 mts
In scale 1 to 5
Seas: 3
Current: 3
Crossings
To San Benedicto: 2
To Socorro: 1
To Roca Partida: 1 

Antonio Romero
Dive Instructor 
Solmar V

February 6th - February 14th, 2018 #TripReport (Socorro Islands)

Hola!


This trip started in San Benedicto Island where we stayed for two days. The first day we dove in “El Cañón” and “Dos Hermanas”; where we saw mantas, hammerheads, silver tips, Galapagos a whale shark and a big school of skip jacks. The second day we dove in “El Boiler” where we saw dolphins early in the morning, mantas during the day and at the end of the last dive two more juvenile whale sharks!

The next stop was Socorro Island where we dove in “Cabo Pearce”. We saw dolphins in the morning and some of the divers had the opportunity to interact with them! The rest of the dives we saw mantas, hammerheads, Galapagos and silvertips sharks.

After being in Socorro we headed to “Roca Partida”. We found the school of hammerheads but in water too deep to follow them. Galapagos, white tips and silver tips were the other sharks we saw. On this trip our clients decided to stay only one day in Roca and return to San Benedicto, because they wanted to dive in “El Boiler” one more time. We started early the last day, for a better chance to dive with dolphins. A pack of nine
dolphins were hunting and chasing jack’s fishes; a mama teaching the calf how to hunt included. For the rest of the dives we saw lots of mantas all over the dive site, a few hammerheads and a couple of Galapagos sharks.

Thanks’ to our friends of “Aqua Hut” for this great trip in Revillagigedo Islands. “Best trip ever!!!”

Pablo
Dive Instructor
Solmar V

January 27th - February 4th, 2018 #TripReport (Socorro Islands)

Trip N º 9 (January 27th – February 4th)
 

Las Cuevas, in San Benedicto Island was our very first check dive. Was amazing to watch 3 whitetips sharks resting into the caves and lots of tropical fish. The day after we have a great encounter with bottlenose dolphins at The Boiler. 6 to 10 dolphins at the western corner, when the first Manta Chevron showed up, and after  that we had an spectactular  interaction with 3 Mantas Chevron and 1 Black Manta. 

For the next 2 days we crossed to Roca Partida. Once there we found  Galapagos sharks (7)  and silvertips. Also big schools of cotton mouth jacks, trevalley jacks, bigeye jacks, 1 manta chevron and massive yellowfin tunas. The whitetips sharks were resting at the ledges  and few hammerheads were around! Wonderful  experience at this isolated volcanic Island in the Pacific!!

 Next stop was Socorro Island and we did 3 dives in Cabo Pearce. The visibility was 20 to 30ft and the current was very strong, specially the down current, challenging dive but very worthy! During the day was fascinating to watch 3 Chevron Mantas within the cleaning stations and a hammerhead in the blue. We saw whitetips sharks, lots of tropical fish, barberfish, trumpetfish, flounders and lobsters. What a beautiful reef!!

We headed back to San Benedicto Island to do 4 dives at El Cañon and we can say that we had a great diving. The action was increasing more and more!! A Manta Chevron at the first dive and at the second dive we found 4 to 5 hammerheads patrolling the area and around the schools of jacks. The rest of the day a couple of groups move to Dos Hermanos to find curious silky sharks and in El Cañon we saw a big Tiger Shark of 4 m/12 ft  circling the reef to disappear in the blue to come back, and once arriving to the Solmar V to complete our safety stop a beautiful Black Manta was passing by,  schools of amber jacks and 3 to 4 silky sharks were circling around the divers.

 Great experience at the Revillagigedo Archipelago, well recognized as Heritage of the World by UNESCO, because of its Biodiversity. And recently declared National Park!! 

See you soon!!!

Ignacio Hernan Leyro                                                                                                                
Scuba Instructor                                                                                                            
Solmar V

Crossing : Cabo San Lucas to San Benedicto 25 hs

Water temperature : 75 Fº / 23 C º to 79 F º / 24 Cº

Visibility : 20 Ft / 6 M to 80 ft / 24 M depending the sites

Weather : cloudy