Diving at the Boiler kicked ass, at least 8 different Mantas!

Our afternoon at the Boiler yesterday kicked ass. Several people said they counted at least 8 different Mantas! They were around for every dive for the entire dive! It was kind of difficult to leave and move on to our next site, this seemed like our best window for Roca Partida and we are still […]

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The Giant Mantas are taking over! Kersplunk. Right on top of 2 mantas at The Boiler!

Oh my goodness..  Okay, before I get ahead of myself, I have to mention our single day at Roca Partida, which can be quite the Grand Finale, but left us a slightly high and dry.  The Nature of the Beast as Captain Al likes to say.  Even though, decent, with lots of white tips, some […]

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After leaving the main island Socorro, having some glorious Dolphins saluting us good bye, we anchor up at Roca Partida 7 hours later.

With the Sun rising creating a spectacular swirl of pink and orange, as we have our breakfast and dive briefing, still wiping the sleep out of our eyes.  Nothing like simply waking up and being at your new dive destination, even though 80 or so miles away. The Swell at Roca partida can be on […]

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The reality of big animal diving. Not every day is giant mantas and sharks galore. Roca Partida was quiet today..

Not sure why but everything at Roca Partida seems to be very deep 150 feet+, so today here has been a bit of a bust.  Only 10-15 sharks all day long other than 30 or so whitetips. Almost no silkies or Galapagos, some silver tips and hammerhead sharks but not enough that by the third […]

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If you can tear your eyes away from the big fish, you’ll find a vertical wall extending straight down for 200 feet with caves filled with resting white tip reef sharks lined up like sardines

Roca Partida as we know it from the surface is a guano covered rock extending about 100 feet into the air and about 200 feet in length, poking up out of the pacific ocean 60 nautical miles from the nearest island of Socorro. In the bigger picture it is the very tip, the last second […]

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Roca Partida was hammerriffic!! My pictures are lousy but the memories are priceless!

How was your dive with the mantas at the boiler? Fantastic! – Fawn. Today we had awesome day at Roca been surrounded by silky sharks, white tips sharks, silver tips, Galapagos and hammerhead sharks swam between a lot schools of jacks, tuna, black snappers, palometas and wahoo’s, so our guests were not bored for even […]

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