Location: San Benedicto, Socorro Islands, Baja California South, Mexico After a very successful dive expedition last week, on Wednesday we set out once more from Cabo San Lucas for the 220 nautical mile voyage to the rugged volcanic Islas of the Revillagigedo, better known as the Socorro Islands, offshore Mexico. The 24 hour crossing was […]
Read MoreLocation: The Boiler, The Canyon dive sites, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Cabo San Lucas Boarding day dawned warm and sunny, with light winds and a calm ocean which would follow us as we left the shelter of the marina in Cabo San Lucas, at the southern most point in Baja California, Mexico, in search of […]
Read MoreLynn: The best scyba dive of my life was today! I descended to 50 feet and took a picture of 8 or 9 whitetip sharks resting on a balcony in the rock. Then I turned around and there was a whaleshark! It came close enough to get great photos. As it moved off, a pod […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon dive site, Islas San Benedicto, Revillagigedo’s, Baja California Mexico A day at sea could not be more pleasant. If we reached the forecast values for our transit we’d be content for a tranquil crossing, but our voyage was made all the milder by a minuscule chop and a light, amiable swell on our […]
Read MoreLocation: 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 […]
Read MoreOn the way out on our second dive today we are escorted by several bottlenose dolphins. They are waiting for us as we drop in, wanting to play. One hovers vertically in the water posing for photos and almost begging to be petted and stroked. Right below the dolphins is a large black manta circling […]
Read MoreLocation: 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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