Captain’s Noon Reports – Explorer – 2021-12-31

Location: The Boiler Weather: Clear Skies, NW Wind (2-4kts), NW Swell (1-3ft) Today the morning was beautiful, the first dive was very nice we saw two chevron mantas and one black manta, many silky sharks and whitetip sharks. For the 2nd one we dove in the Canyon and we saw a mini-school of hammerheads around […]

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Captain’s Noon Reports – Gallant Lady – 2021-12-07

We did the first two dives at Roca Oneal. The first one was great with a very special manta encounter with a female named Barefoot, for a foot-shaped pattern on her underside. She has been known to seek close interaction in the past and apparently enjoys sitting on our DM Juan’s head but also went diver to diver to share that manta love.

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Greetings from Mobula Rays and Giant Black Manta

Today was an epic day of diving. The kind that makes your heart smile. On our first dive, we were greeted immediately with mobula rays, and then a beautiful giant black manta that serenaded us the majority of the dive. Amidst the activity some friendly dolphins also checked us out. It was truly breathtaking.

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Heavily pregnant silky sharks

We had around 10 sharks with us, two of which were large heavily pregnant females around 8ft long! We also saw a school of squid and the silky sharks hunting small baitfish! At one point I saw a silky actually catch a fish! I felt a bit sad for the little guy but it was a pretty incredible spectacle of nature to behold!

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Pod of dolphins, mantas, and humpbacks!

Boiler has been good so far with a pod of dolphins around the divers and mantas just at once. A humpback whale was jumping out of water about four or five times, showing us how big they can be. The water temperature is 74F, mild current to strong in most of the dive sites, visibility 60 to 70 ft. Another great dive!

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False killer whales head-butting

But as they approached the boat we realized they were not actually the bottlenoses we’d seen a lot. We then realized they were false killer whales! I was incredibly exciting when 15-20 of them decided to stick around. We even saw two of them head-butting!

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