WOO!! What a day at Roca Partida! First dive we dropped on the east side looking for some hammerheads. One came around to say “hi”, swimming around the divers. We continued our dive towards the north point, which today was impressive – getting too much MANTA LOVE! First dive we had 4 mantas dancing around […]
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Roca Partida has lived up to its hype and then some. The two day stay began with an eventful exploration of the ancient magma plug. Schools of fish including almaco jack pairs, horse-eye jacks and more white-tip sharks than I could count, and of course, the incredible giant mantas. All of this peppered with yellow-tail […]
Read MoreAnother amazing day at Roca Partida, with 2 dives full of actions, the first 30mn after sunrise, the second finishing barely an hour before sunset, and on both walls of hammerheads, and we could get a few meters of individuals ones. And still in the evening, those huge tunas that scare everything away (including Galapagos […]
Read MoreToday we say goodbye to Roca Partida, probably one of the top five dive spots in the world. Even a normal dive here is a highlight anywhere else. -G
Read MoreRoca Partida is an amazing place. So much life, you can just hang there and enjoy. The whales jumped and one of the small ones seemed to have just found out how to do it. It was all an unforgettable experience. Thanks to the whole crew, who made these dives to be so much fun […]
Read MoreOk. This is slightly off-topic because the coconut crab is not indigenous to our waters, but it is so fascinating that I felt compelled to write about it. These monster crabs start life as ocean plankton. They reach a certain size at which time they drop to the seabottom just like many other crab. We […]
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