Guest Blog – Dec.6/09 – Searching for the Hammerheads!

Maggie:    The divemaster made sure I saw the Manta that was only 4 feet above my head…I was staring at my computer and was oblivious to 4 divers waving their arms at me…then I looked up and thought: WOW!!! That made the dive.  And I must have seen every tropical fish in the book today. […]

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Scalloped hammerheads, curious Giant mantas and Bottlenose dolphins saying good bye.

Location: The Canyon and the Boiler by San Benedicto, Socorro Island and Revillagigedos. We finished of our last two days at San Benedicto which is the island 36 miles to the north of Socorro Island.  The island is actually very green compared with last year, greener then we ever seen it before. It is in […]

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Hammerhead sharks, dolphins playing and giant mantas circling

Location: Punta Tosca, Socorro Island, Revillagigedo’s, Baja California After the navy inspection we headed out to Punta Tosca. I went down to check out the dive site and had immediately two giant mantas coming in towards me. Going down the first scuba dive they where there. And divers started to do their filming and shooting […]

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Guest Blog – Nov. 29/09

El dia de hoy en ISlA  SOCORRO  el buceo fue grandioso  con cuatro delfines y tres mantas gigantes en la parada de seguridad. 29 NOV 2009   DE LA BELLA PERLA TAPATIA GUADALAJARA. Cabo Pierce a l’Est de Socorro, un concentre des plus belles especes reunies pour le plus grand plaisir des plongeurs : Mantas, Dauphins, […]

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Guest Blog – Nov.28/09

Offered the crew my vegemite which I bought all the way from Oz just for them, but I had no takers. Oh well, I have 5 more days to convince them of its ability to make you the sort of person that when you dive, the fish, they stop they watch. Michael Los buceos de […]

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Calm seas for diving at Roca Partida

Location: Roca Partida, Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Mexico This trip we had got from the forcast to have the calm seas of the week at Roca Partida (Socorro). So if we would get two nice calm days at Roca Partida we have to start there to do our check-out diving. Roca Partida is not really the […]

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Manta lovin'

Location: Isla Socorro, Baja California South, Mexico After a very sharky two days at Roca Partida we headed the 65 miles east to the largest of the three islands that we dive here, Socorro, in search of some Manta lovin’! It was a very comfortable overnight transit and our first stop was the navy base […]

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