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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Divemaster report from the Boiler dive site at San Benedicto Island (Socorro)

Vis: 100 ft – 140 ft Temp: 82 degrees Weather: raining at morning,cloudy,bit windy but warm enough. Seas: bit chopy at morning, soft swell Comments: Manta day, since the first dive till the last. Manta’s all the time and in the last 2 dives, 3 mantas together outstanding interaction with the divers, first dive dolphins […]

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Today I got to fulfill my diving dream of 12 years and went scuba diving with a whale shark!

Ich habe heute, nach ueber 12 Jahren und vielen, vielen Tauchgaengen, meinen ersten Walhai gesehen!!! Endlich! Ich habe sooooooooooooooooooooo lange darauf gewartet! Er war riesig und vor allem wunderschoen!!! Ich werde Roca Partida nie vergessen. -Meike After 12 years of diving (albeit on and off while I was at University due to lack of funds) […]

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Roca Partida looks underwhelming from the surface. A huge school that seemed to go on forever underwater was mesmerizing..

Dive day two of our current Socorro expedition has us diving famous Roca Partida. A guano covered rock in the middle of the pacific ocean, seeing it from the surface is slightly underwhelming. As soon as you back-roll off our dive tenders and dip beneath the surface though the rock comes alive. Roca Partida is […]

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Captain's Log – Turtle erotica… I watched through the wheelhouse windows as 2 green turtles locked in a steamy embrace. Or maybe they were just cuddling.

We’ve just left Roca Partida and are on our way back in Cabo San Lucas to disembark and prepare for our next trip back to the Socorro Islands. The highlight of this trip was definitely the diving at Roca Partida. Our one day at Socorro Island was a little disappointing as far as big animals […]

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The number of sharks at Roca Partida was overwhelming. There were 50 – 60 sharks in every direction.

Diving day at Roca Partida ˆ first dive in the morning everybody was excited and wanted to be the first in the water. The stories the crew told us about this place were pretty amazing so expectations were high. As we finally jumped in the impression was overwhelming. Sharks wherever you looked. About 50/60 sharks […]

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Walls of hammerheads we could get a few meters of individuals ones.

Another 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 […]

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