Another great day of diving, this time at Roca Partida!

Roca Partida offered another of its usual shows! Despite of the choppy water, the sharks, skittish at first, came up to dance around the divers, especially during the afternoon dive. Current from north made us use our fins full power and the surge just added more adrenaline if the galapagos, silver tips and hummerheads weren't enough. A huge manta patrolled the rock at times, and the divers enjoyed the calm coves packed with eels and enormous lobsters! 
Adrian
DM on board SOLMAR V

What a day at San Benedicto Island!!!

What a day at San Benedicto Island!!! The first dive was at "El Canyon" where we
saw a couple mantas and a few hammerhead sharks, then we spent the rest of the day was at "El Boiler" where manta action was non-stop! We had five of them the entire time while we were at the boiler! The best part of it was that the mantas were very interactive with the divers. Everyone had an amazing time! Water was 78F with 60'+ visibility.
Claudio Bonato
Solmar V DM

It was absolutely incredible at San Benedicto!

Buenas Tardes from San Benedicto! 
What a day!! It was absolutely incredible today. We started our day at El Canyon. Temperature remains warm at 78 degrees and visibility was lacking  at 30 ft. But none of that mattered when the dolphins showed up. There were twelve in total and buzzed around my group for the first five minutes of our dive. Then we spotted a few very large hammerheads in the distance.. Shortly after mantas appeared. A black manta and a chevron circled us again and again making us dizzy with their friendliness. We were with the two mantas for more than 30 minutes as they cruised over our heads and circled us. Our second dive was more quiet as one group took the interest of the mantas and they drifted with them the entire dive. We were left with the  hammerheads as we saw a group of ten big hammerheads. They only crossed our path once and unfortunately we did´t get another glimpse. 
Now our last two dives of the day were really special. We moved to the Boiler knowing we would have some mantas. For the rest of the day, we had mad manta action. On the last dives we had seven mantas in constant action in every direction. It was almost overwhelming as they approached very close and others would be coming from the opposite direction. We didn`t know where to look. It was hands down the most incredible manta experience we have had since I have been here... in more than 2 years. Thanks to the mantas we had a send off nobody will soon forget. Viva El Boiler!
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia

We had an incredible encounter with over 40 dolphins at Socorro Island!

Great dives at Socorro Island! We dove at "punta tosca" in the morning and had an incredible encounter with more than 40 dolphins!! Yes! more than forty, and they stayed with us for about 20 minutes. It doesn't get better than that. Our second dive was at the same site but we did not see them until we surfaced at the end of the dive, so we opted to snorkel with them! For the two afternoon dives we moved to Cabo Pierce where we found some hungry mantas, but today they were too busy feeding and they didnt interact as much as usual.  Water temp was 78F and visibility of over 70'. 
Claudio Bonato
Dive Instructor

Another phenomenal Manta day!

Just when we thought we couldn't beat the manta interaction we had at San Benedicto! We had amazing manta dives! The cleaning station was packed with clarion fish cleaning mantas today! The entire time we were over the reef, giant mantas kept coming from all directions! The best part of it was they came to stay! The Chevron and Black mantas were very friendly, plus we noticed a lot of juvenile ones mantas!  The reef was covered with lots of juvenile creolefish, and we also found flounder, lobsters, octopus, scorpion fish, eels, rays, a few hammer head sharks here and there, some white tips in the area also! A tiger shark showed up to to be part of our experience here at this dive site too, that's the second one  we've spotted on this trip! Our 3 groups were diving different areas of the dive site at the same time all of us watching something!  During our surface interval we also had something to do, snorkeling with the mantas that did not want us to leave. 

Dive Inst
Daniel Zapata

Lots of sharks at Roca Partida, including schooling hammerhead!

Greetings from Roca!
It was a nice day here at our favorite dive site, Roca Partida. The temperature was warm at 79 degrees F and the visibility was clear with over 80 ft. visibility. Our guests were treated to lots of sharks a some beautiful dives. The highlight was a school of hammerheads that circled below us for nearly 10 minutes. We had lots of other sharks to keep us occupied with the countless white tips, some silver tips, and galapagos sharks! We had a blast now next stop, Socorro Island! Looking forward to more manta time!
Until Next Time,
Dave Valencia

What a day at " el Boiler", mantas were everywhere!

Oh my god!! What a day at " el Boiler", mantas were everywhere! We had more than 5 at a time, big ones and all of them were very friendly. On all 4 dives we had amazing interactionwith these giant social critters, all four dives were phenomenal with no exception. On the third dive of the day we spotted a tiger shark out in the blue! On top of all of this we had some white tip sharks and tons of fish!
Another magic day at Revillagigedos! 
Claudio Bonato
DM