"Are you crazy?!". My friend asked. The shark was heart thumping big, only a meter away. Socorro Islands, San Benedicto, Mexico.

40 years of diving brought myself to this fantastic day of diving on San Benedicto Island a solo personal encounter with four wild dolphins surrounding me at 40 feet ascending from the Canyon ridge. The encounter went on for several minutes as there were dolphin whistling to each other, two of them turned onto their […]

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Manta’s – Swimming Close and Gliding By, Like Stealth Bombers – The Canyon, San Benedicto

  The sight of San Benedicto island rising up from the horizon was beautiful. A gorgeous sunset, the green flash, a warm hot tub and the promise of good things to come the next day. How many times has the diving been so good at the Canyon that we stayed the whole day? I can’t  […]

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Giant manta swooped over us and I looked up to see a whale shark swim past and then … another manta showed up. San Benedicto. Socorro Island.

Perfecto!  First dive of the trip and we were greeted by 2 Giant  Mantas..gracefully swimming above, around and with us for the dive.  Water temp 74, viz great and the dive crew had us all well prepared and we had a great time.   There was a Hammerhead sighting and one man saw what he said […]

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Galapagos shark swallows a 5 ft green Moray eel in front of our masks! Roca Partida April 19 2011

19 april 2011 Roca Partida , Socorro islands , Revillagigedo , Pacific Ocean, Mexico Same mother and calf humpback as last trip are visiting us! And a Galapago sharks swallows a 5 ft green Moray eel in front of our masks! Today we had two great dives with as well beautiful show of humpbacks breaching […]

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Roca Partida is for me a temple in the heart of mother ocean that I hope will bring joy and excitement to many more ocean lovers. 18 April 2011. Roca Partida. Socorro Island. Pacific Ocean.

We had the most calmest crossing leaving Clipperton for Socorro Island, Yesterday the sea was like glass. When the sun set blood red in the horizon in the west  the full moon raised in silver at the same time in the south east. I think we all where there out side taking fotos. The flying […]

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Captain and Guest Blog – I'm pretty sure a dolphin tried to talk to me using his blowhole – Socorro March 29th

I’m pretty sure a bottlenose dolphin tried to talk to me today, using his blowhole.  I was in one of our tenders tied up at the divesite, waiting for the divers to come back. There were dolphins all around the divesite, coming up for a breath and then diving down to play with the divers. […]

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Humpback Whales are Back at Socorro Island – Dive Guide Blog – 30 DEC 2010

So after an excellent day in Socorro Island with giant mantas,  dolphins and big school of hammerhead sharks we arrived in the morning at Roca Partida. Before the sunrise over the horizon we could easily see Socorro island over 70 Nautical miles away! Not every day that happens. the air was so clear. It was […]

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