Yesterday we left the marina at Cabo San Lucas for our final Socorro Islands trip of the season, another 12 day expedition which will end with 4 days of diving in the Sea of Cortez. All was calm and serene as we pulled away from the dock and I was anticipating a relatively smooth 220 […]
Read MoreOur arrival was impressive we just got in to a massive bait ball with thousands of boobies falling like a massive waterfall pounding in to the water. Dolphins every where and down under must have been tunas and sharks. The bait ball moved fast in a 2-3 knots in speed. When we decided to try […]
Read MoreThe fishing accident: A weird thing happened this evening. Another boat showed up way out here. Two people. Fishing I guess, although when we asked them about their visit here, they couldn’t seem to explain it. They came to our boat in a small zodiac off their bigger boat. As they got closer I could […]
Read MoreThe diving here at Clipperton Island is great. The reefs are full of fish and healthy coral. The fine-spotted moray eels (Gymnothorax dovii) are amazing. They swim free. Some seem to cooperate in hunting and others are bitter enemies and battle for territory. They show no fear and will attack. I have had to push […]
Read MoreIt was 3 years since we came here the very first time and the island still exists! A big group of bottlenose dolphins piloted us in to the islands. We are finally here! And I am excited to be back again to learn a bit more about this very remote coral atoll. And the water! […]
Read MoreRoca Partida was a great dive site, where repetition on the site was anything but boring. each dive we had no idea which place to look first, at the silver tip sharks, the pod of dolphins, the hammerhead sharks or the enormous yellow fin tuna making the rounds. Lisa tried to tell me about some […]
Read MoreJoey: Today was my first day diving in warm water. We jumped in and the water was very clean compared to the Northwest diving I am used to. I saw a few Clarion Angel fish right at the beginning which were beautiful. Then we swam over to where the the Hammerhead Sharks were. I only […]
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