A Dive Master’s First-Hand Experience Diving in the Sea of Cortez

Divemasters know what can be expected and where like the back of their hand while taking guests on mesmerizing journeys below the surface of the oceans. Without them, exploring the natural habitats of exotic sea creatures would be an impossibility. With ears of diving experience and hundreds of dives under their belt, they are also […]

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A Week on the UnderSea in the Sea of Cortez

A never-ending highway of fish! A fish soup or a snowstorm of fish! Thousands and thousands, Creole fish, Jacks, fusiliers, gaftails pompanos, spotted nose snappers, we saw a couple of huge 5 foot Pacific dog snappers and thousands of Bonitos hunting.

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Swirling Socorro vortex of death at Roca Partida ?

Very interesting video pasted in below recently made the rounds on the internet.  It  shows a  horizontal vortex capturing a couple of helpless pufferfish supposedly caused by the change in season at Roca Partida from spring to summer.   hmmmmm.     First of all, I feel badly for the pufferfish.   Poor guys.   […]

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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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Another wreck dive off La Paz

Location: Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico We made this morning’s  dive at whale island. Explored the caverns and swimthrough and found some beautiful nudibranchs. Had a closer look on two different cleaning stations  –  one attended by barberfish and the other by juvenile mexican Hogfish.    We then got underway and steamed […]

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