Getting up at 3:30 am is usually not a happy time. But I had an instant smile on my face. Dec. 30, 2011-Jan. 01, 2012 – Socorro Island, Baja California, Mexico.

Day 1 Dec 30.2011 Getting up at 3:30am is usually not a happy time.  Yet as my 3 alarms were ringing in the morning I had an instant smile on my face.  I didn’t even need coffee.  I was up and ready for action. I had to catch a plane to Cabo San Lucas Mexico… […]

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One of the best places in the world, Roca Partida diving. November 11, 2011 – Socorro Island, Baja California, Mexico.

Total genial ˆ alles was das Herz begehrt! Seidenhaischule, Galapagoshaie, Silberspitzenhaie und als Kroenung noch ein Walhai.  Jeder Tauchgang ist ein Erlebnis fuer sich und es gibt jedesmal wieder eine Ueberraschung. Roca Partida gehoert zu den besten Tauchplaetzen der Welt!!! – Gabi und Herbert aus Gaden   There was much expectation about our first day’s […]

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The water at Roca Partida was the most gorgeous inky blue and was stacked with huge schools of fish.. what a privilege. November, 2011 – Socorro Island, Baja California, Mexico.

I have been fortunate to dive some of the best places in the world during my time diving and based on what I have seen in the past 2 days, Roca Partida is up there with the best. We did 8 dives over 2 days so it was a fairly tiring schedule, but one has […]

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I'll never complain again about getting up at 07:30 on holiday. December, 2011. Isla Socorro, Baja California, Mexico

I’ll never complain again about getting up at 07:30 on holiday. FANTASTIC first dive of the day at Punta Tosca. I have to look at the video to confirm I wasn’t still asleep and dreaming. Dolphins, mantas and more dolphins all came to greet us as we wiped the sleep from our eyes. The dolphins […]

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People look at you strangely when you tell them you are spending your honeymoon with 22 other divers on a boat. November, 2011 – Socorro Island, Baja California, Mexico

So here we are in the middle of the Pacific and there’s blue skies, no wind and no swell to speak of, surely something is wrong? Seems not… we just got lucky. Down below there’s everything we could reasonably have expected to see.  There’s hammerhead sharks, silvertips and Galapagos sharks, whitetips stacked on shelves in […]

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Start of Socorro season. November 17, 2011 – Socorro Island, Baja California, Mexico

Well here we are the start of the Socorro Island diving season. Socorro never escapes to get my pulse going, as I come on watch this morning in the predawn light I see the dark shadow of San Benedicto Island rising from the sea against the coming day. We also start to see the first indications […]

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We also had two breaches today!!  And an albatross barely escaped becoming a meal! October, 2011 – Isla Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico

This was my 2nd time on the Guadalupe great white sharks trip.  Today was amazing!  There were so many sharks it was often hard to decide who to photograph!  Shredder was in peak form today.  He followed the same path all day.  For some reason he alternated port and starboard sides when heading to the […]

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