San Benedicto, anchored in 50ft of water, Is a beautiful day, very clear skies with some whites in it, wind is blowing 10 kts NW gusting to 14 or more at times.
Barcena Volcano is putting tons of ashes in the ocean, boat looks like is been breaded, we keep cleaning. Air temperature is 75F, water is the same. Visibility averages 50Ft ashes in the ocean makes visibility low, little current running to the west, flat seas in the sheltered area we are in.
Dives have been good, both of them, the check dive had couple of mantas, a handful of white tip reef sharks and tons of lobster. Second dive had mantas, one hammerhead shark, a silver tips shark and the highlight was the tiger shark, they say 2 meters long and cruising by.
Things from yesterday.
- Our wakeup call was the fire alarm that went off, everybody guests and crew woke up and got going to the desire meeting point
- I was doing safety briefing and dolphins came to the boat we could see them from the window, I of course had that planned for guests to enjoy (super Beto)
- Around 1600 just before our drill I saw out in the distance a whale spout, I went to get people explaining that they may see it or maybe not, last week we saw a whale got everyone excited and the PINCHE whale never came back to the surface to breath.
Anyways I explained everyone that, turned out there was a whale (couldn’t see what kind) being chased by a huge pod of ORCAS, orcas came close to the boat and kept on chasing after the poor whale. Everyone on this boat got to see them. (super Beto again).
