Today was like Christmas day at Roca!

Roca Partida -
Today was like Christmas day according to some of our guests! During the 3 dives we did today there was not a single time with no sharks! On our first dive of the morning not even 10 minutes into the dive and we were already watching a big school of hammer heads that came back for a second glance! The rock itself on the south and northern points we found Galapagos and silver tip sharks were schooling, we were surrounded by silver tips with Galapagos sharks coming straight at us, coming up on the wall, coming out of the blue, from all directions and the! The sharks were close, not even 10' away from us! 
We also had a bit of bonitos schooling and of course silky sharks chasing them, the yellow fin tunas today were as big as the Galapagos shark, even white tip sharks were active swimming among the silver tips and Galapagos, seems everybody was out to party today!
The schooling fish were making all type of formations and spreading out letting sharks come through the school; leather bass were congregating right by the wall, we saw red and yellow tail trigger fish, creole fish, jacks, rainbow runners, and more! There was not much of swimming due a mild current from west so it was very easy to stay right where the action was! A nice and refreshing water temp got us at the depth with a 73F where it seems sharks were more active, coming up we hit a little warmer layer of 77F and for our safety stop we had an 81F even at this depth schooling hammer heads showed up. 

We had an average vis. of 70ft, and on the surface we has a bit rough conditions due to wind blowing , also clouds made this place look so remote and beautiful, as I always say one of the most unique places on earth!
Dive Inst
Daniel Zapata

There's no other place on earth like Roca Partida, period!

Great day at Roca Partida!! Everything was here today, white tips, big galapagos and silver tip sharks,
schooling hammerhead sharks, massive tunas, silky sharks, bonito baitball, different jacks all over and if like that was not enough in the last dive a huge whale shark showed up to blow everyone`s head up!! There`s no other place on earth like Roca Partida period.
Claudio Bonato
Dive Instructor

We started our day with a school of hammerheads and finished with Pacific Giant Mantas!

We started the day diving at El Cañón with 81F-26C of water temperature and a great visibility of 80’ /24 m. Going down along the stern anchor and realized that we had the perfect eastern current that brings up good schools of Hammerhead Sharks to the cleaning station. We swam up to the cleaning station where the ridge turns and hold on a rock while we waited for some hammerheads, and yes they came! A school of about 20 hammerhead sharks approached briefly to the divers.
We did one more dive at El Cañón and the conditions where still  the same, however, this time we saw the glimpse of Manta that cruised by the dive site, though didn’t stick around. 
We moved to El Boiler and finished our dive day with 2 awesome Manta dives at El Boiler. We saw totally 2 different Mantas this time, but one of them hung out with all of us in both dives. The visibility was low, about 40’/12 m and a chilly thermocline. Another group spotted 2 Hammerhead Sharks by the corner of the pinnacle. That is how we closed our dive day, diving with some Pacific giant Mantas.. 
Tonight we will head towards Roca Partida! Stand by and wait for some Roca news.
Hasta la vista,
Erick Higuera

Bull sharks at Cabo Pulmo and massive schools at El Bajo!

Cabo Pulmo
For our first dive we did a ship wreck dive of El Vencedor!  On our first dive we were amazed to see 5 different bull sharks, we spotted the first one as we were dropping down on the net area of the wreck, it was very nice to see it from above and as we are approaching it went away
slowly so we waited there but did not come back. We went north in the same area of the wreck until we found a sandy bottom again, there was another one bull shark coming straight at me turning left when it was just 10ft from me! We also know in this area they are morning sharks! So we continued swimming just above the sandy bottom, not too far from there we had to stop because 3 other bull sharks were chasing each other in a row! 
So ,the first dive of the morning was great about sharks, the rest of dive time was just watching schooling fish like groupers, snappers, grunts, lots of garden eels, some scorpion fish, electric rays etc. Two other dives took place in the beautiful reefs called El Bajo and Los Morros with a diversity of schooling fish just like in the first dive plus a massive school of jacks swimming circles in the same area, a really mild current kept other fish swimming into it so we were able to keep up with them swimming along side.The vis was from 40 to 50ft, water temp 79°F. current during the morning was heading south and afternoon north, surface condition windy, from SE, but sunny.
Dive Inst
Daniel Zapata

A great day in the Sea of Cortez!

We had a GREAT day in the Sea of Cortez!
Our first two dives were at LA REINA, near Cerralvo Island.  At this site we found a massive school of green jacks, there were so many that they literally were blocking the sun light when we were under them. Around were bonitas, bull jacks, barracudas and cormorans diving for their daily snack. In the afternoon we moved to LOS ISLOTES to dive with sea lions and it was so much fun that I ended up doing a dive that lasted 100 min! Yes, one hour and forty minute dive with the most playful sea lions in the all world. Water temp was 27C/79F, with visibility around 18m/60f, the weather was sunny and with calm seas.
Claudio Bonato
Dive Instructor

What a day at Isla San Benedicto!

What a day at Isla San Benedicto!
The day started a little dreary with some dark weather on the horizon and some rain, but the mantas pulled us through and we had an unforgettable day.
Our first dive was at one of our favorite sites, El Canyon. The visibility was great and no current. The hammerheads were hoping to see didn't make an appearance but there were a lot of octopus and eels! We decided to move to the Boiler and this was a smart move, it turned out. We had multiple mantas on the last three dives of the day. The last dive was the best. From the moment we entered the water, we had three mantas circling us. Two of the mantas were chasing each other over and over again. Twirling, Circling, and diving together. It was a rare behavior to be able to observe and they went like that for an hour straight. The mantas were very playful and allowed us to blow bubbles underneath them going from diver to diver. Everyone came up with smiles. It was a great way to end our trip here in the Revillagigedos. Now back to civilization...
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia

Great diving at Roca!

Hola amigos,
We had great diving at Roca Partida. We found lots of hammerheads, white tip sharks, galapagos and silver tips. Even a big green turtle. Conditions were great, with 30m/100ft visibility, water temp 27c/79f and really calm sea. We are staying here until tomorrow, looking forward to seeing more sharks. And if we're lucky maybe even a whale shark!
Claudio Bonato DM