Back to San Benedicto!

Hola facebook!
We have a full group of Russians this week, eager to see all that the Revillagigedos has to offer! It`s our first day of the trip and we just finished our check out dive. As usual, we arrived to lots of dolphins jumping throught the water as we neared San Benedicto Island! They were  bow-riding and jumping as they welcomed us to the island. We even spotted a Humpback Whale as we arrived to our first dive site. In the water, visibility was good at 50'+ with a temp in the low 70's. We had a very calm dive and our divers enjoyed eels, scorpionfish, giant pacific electric ray, and a white tip or two. All our divers checked out and we are looking forward to some a great day tomorrow. We are finishing our day now with a great Mexican BBQ on the bow set out by chef Tony!
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia

Sailfish, dolphins, mantas, and more on our last day at San Benedicto!

Hola everyone!

Our early morning dive at el Boiler at San Benedicto Island had excellent visibility and we were accompanied by 12 dolphins for over half an hour! The soundtrack of the humpbacks singing was non-stop, but that was almost drowned out from the excited dolphins chirping while they were hunting big eye trevally! Another thing to be amazed by is the number of spiny lobster here! When we got  to the cleaning station we found one black manta, but he didn't stay long.

We spent almost 3 hours looking for bait balls to great success! Although we did not find one big bait ball, we dropped in the water 10 times over this time, and counted 15-20 sailfish came so close you could see every detail on them! 

Now, back to scuba! We did two more dives at el Boiler, we were immersed in a world of fish over the cleaning station we found another manta! For our macro enthusiasts,  nidubranch were all over the rock, thanks to the water temperature dropping.  We also found more hammerheads, galapagos sharks over the reef to complete our diving day!

Dive Inst.

Daniel Zapata

Mantas all day at Socorro Island!

Hi from Socorro Island!
We were hoping to find mantas and mantas are what we found!!! We made 3 dives today at Cabo Pearce at Socorro Island.  The first one in the morning was with blue warm waters and no current. 5 different mantas came to visit our divers at the cleaning station, with many Clarion Angel Fish tagging along on their backs. The mantas interacted with our divers for over an hour! By the end of the dive we saw a family of Dolphins hunting juvenile tunas and a great Chevron Manta just hovering in the middle of the show. That was just unforgettable. For the second dive we had the same conditions and more mantas showed up to play and we stayed for another hour just taking in their performance at the cleaning stations. 
By the 3rd dive, the conditions dropped a bit, but we were still able to enjoy the visit of a Chevron Manta at the cleaning station along with dolphins at the deep part of the dive site!
We are now at the Navy Station waiting for the routine inspection, then we're headed to San Benedicto to for our last day of what has already been a fantastic trip!

Until the next time
Ricardo Tamaño
Dive Instructor

Two excellent days at Roca!

Hola amigos,
After our second day at Roca partida where everyone had such a good time, we are now heading to Socorro Island.  During our first two dives, Galapagos and hammerhead sharks were all over the place in big numbers!  Occasionally some silvertips and silkies showed up, along with some schooling bonitos and jacks! At the end of our last dive we were surrounded by a school of massive tunas that were at least 200 pounds, and they were escorted by lots of silky sharks! I know what you're thinking, but this wasn't a dream it was for real if only you could have been here! Sorry! We had two excellent days at Roca that will be difficult to top!

Claudio Bonato
Divemaster

Lots of sharks at Roca!

ROCA PARTIDA!
What a unique place to dive...

A great day of diving started with beautiful sun rise!  Water temp was in the mid 70's with an amazing visibility of over 120' gave us excellent perspective of the rock! 

The ledges were covered with white tip reef sharks, and were excellent models for our guests' camera! On top of the we found a massive school of hammerheads and galapagos sharks schooling together!  We hung out with them at 100' for about 10 minutes before returning to the norther point of the rock. We waited at the norther point looking at different schooling fish like black jacks, cotton mouth jacks, big eye trevally, and more, before we encountered over 20 very curious galapagos sharks at only 30'! 

On the other side of the rock one groun found a big ball of striped bonito with 40 to 50 silky sharks  chasing them, on the surface our panga driver Geronimo spotted 2 humpback whales, but they were too far to get close.
On our second dive we had the opportunity to go all around the rock, which gave us the time to enjoy the schooling fish, sharks all over the place and we found a a big school of galapagos and hammerheads on the southern point! The conditions improved on our 3rd dive and when we dropped in the water were were literally on top of a school of galapagos sharks!
Dive Inst
Daniel Zapata

Dolphins, hammerheads, whales, and more at San Benedicto!

Hola from San Benedicto!
Today was our first full diving day of this trip, we started our day at El Cañon, with bottlenose dolphins playing with our divers! We also enjoyed watching them chase the jacks all over the place.  We could hear the whales as a background music during the entire dive. We got to see a couple of Hammerheads during this dive too!
On our second dive we had the chance to dive with 50+ hammerheads out in the blue on the eastern side of El Cañon, and we found 8 more while we coming back to our boat by the end of the dive. These particular school of sharks was very curious and made numerous close passes right by our divers so we could enjoy them all around us.
Between the 2nd and 3rd dive, we went with the pangas to see the whales close to the boat, and we had the mama, the papa and the baby playing close to our excited guests!
For the 3rd and 4th dive we found more hammerheads but not in a school, just hanging over the sand patch under the boat.
In addition to these amazing big critter encounters, we found a lot of lobsters, octopuses eels, and an uncountable number of fish made for another amazing day at El Cañon. Tonight we are heading to Roca Partida were we expect top have 3 more great dives in paradise!
Water temp was around 71F and visibility was a great 60'+ blue water, with slight current from the north east.
Ricardo Tamaño
Dive Instructor

Bait balls, dolphins, marlins, and more on our last day at San Benedicto!

Hola from San Benedicto!

Today was our last diving day on this fabulous trip.  We started early morning at El Boiler, with a great dolphins interaction with our divers. We also enjoyed watching them chase the jacks all over the place!  Water temp was in the low 70's with easily over 100' visibility and with no current an the dive site. After our first dive, we decided to go out with the boat and look for bait balls, and of course, our favorite place didn't let us down! More than 3 hours jumping with friendly dolphins in blue water, with Sail Fin and Marlins all over the place, hunting and coming close to take a better look of those weird things floating in the surface (those were us in Snorkeling gear). What an experience with such magnificent and elegant animals!!! 

To finish our trip we made one last dive at the Boiler, where everybody had the chance to enjoy the beauty of this dive site and the life that it hast to offer one last time before heading back to Cabo! We are now heading back to Cabo San Lucas, with happy and smiley divers.

Until the next trip!

Ricardo Tamaño
Dive Instructor