Volkswagen Beetle Sized Tuna?

Wonderful, supportive, extremely professional crew aboard, across all disciplines from captain to chef. Exceptional food, snacks, and cookies. Roca Partida is amazing. Every dive is filled with swarms of fish, various sharks, mantas, joy, and smiles. Diving here four times a day does not get boring. Looking at the majestic rock from both above and […]

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Beautiful free diving with the sea lions at Los Islotes

Our friend and passionate conservationist Erendira Valle writes “I’m producing a short film about the harmony between humans and marine animals.   The free diver is Maria Teresa and we want to get images of her with sharks and giant manta rays.   We started with the California sea lions at Los Islotes and send […]

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Big thank you to the Mexican Navy

Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago is a jewel in the eastern Pacific ocean.  The islands are a protected marine biosphere that are a virtual aquatic Garden of Eden for both reef and pelagic critters including our favourite sharks, giant manta rays, dolphins, tuna and humpback whales.   Sure it’s frustrating when we see sport […]

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Last Diving Day of Our 2007/2008 Socorro Revillagigedos Season

Over the two days all of our divers were able to have closer and more intimate interactions with a couple of giant manta rays than anyone imagined. Some divers saw a small school of 10 hammerheads and one lucky group of divers had terrific interaction with a dolphin who played for 5 minutes before taking off rapidly and leaping out of the water. The silvertip and Galapagos sharks were off the northeast end of the rock circling in and out of view. One of the Galapagos sharks looked like it is recovering from a nasty spear wound to the head. He has a large lump with a hole on the top right side of his head and a hole/scar on the bottom left side by his gills. The good news is that we saw him last trip as well and he seems to be recovering nicely.

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Hammerhead Sharks, Giant Mantas and Big Waves

We did the Giants Causeway (or Southwest Benedicto for Mike) as the third dive and saw 2 or possibly 4 mantas but they did not seem to want to interact with us. Dive day 2 and we went to the Boiler for the first scuba dive. The dive was spectacular, 100+ feet of visibility, a pod of 6 dolphins and almost no current.

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Giant Manta Rays Dance with Scuba Divers

We anchored so that we could swim to the dive site, and with no current and very little waves, we had an open deck for the day so guests were free to dive whenever they felt like. Between dives, a lot of guests chose to accompany Marco, our chief mate, on a tour of the shoreline to see the arches and pinnacles and whale watch. From the Nautilus we watched a young humpback whale leap multiple times out of the water followed by an adult humpback breaching creating some wonderful photographic opportunities.

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6 Hours of Filming Every Day is Hard Work!!

Over the years, we have seen that the manta rays at San Benedicto seem to like to interact with scuba divers, coming back and making eye contact and as divemasters we have felt that they will always single us out and make a close pass as if they recognize us. There are three models/freedivers on this trip who have been diving down and swimming with the giant manta rays and one of them has definitely been singled out by two of the mantas that we encountered. Every time she dives down the mantas will turn into her and circle around her and get very close. The other two divers, one male and one female, are getting are far less interest from the mantas. Hmmm…

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