Location: 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 […]
Read MoreLocation: Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico We had a very interesting trip with 5 scientists onboard the Nautilus Explorer for our trip to Socorro Island. Guy Stevens from Maldives. Tim Clark from Hawaii and Bob Rubin and Karey Kumli from the United States. All with a a lot of knowledge of giant mantas from different […]
Read MoreLocation: Roca Partida, Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Mexico We started of with going out visiting a big group of hammerhead sharks a bit outside of the rock. In several moments we were in the middle of the sharks looking in all directions; seing this beautiful graceful hammerhead in the middle of the blue just floating around […]
Read MoreAnyways, when a large black manta came in towards our divers, the silky took off towards the manta and hit it really hard in the gill area. Really hard! The giant manta took off and that was the last that anyone saw of it. It’s all very interesting as we’ve always wondered why sharks don’t attack the mantas (it is very rare to see bite marks on a manta). I guess they do!!
Read MoreWe spent the rest of the day at Cabo Pearce where the diving was very good. Divers saw a large school of hammerhead sharks above the outer cleaning station (in approximately 50 feet of water), smaller groups of hammerhead sharks as well as Galapagos and silky sharks.
Read MoreThe west side of Socorro Island has beautiful rolling hills with low green vegetation that is gradually turning brown as the residual moisture from last summer’s hurricane season drys up. Divers lucked out with a large and very friendly giant manta ray that stuck with them for a great interaction during one dive. Humpback whales were all around and spent their day breaching, fluking and singing whale songs that could be heard underwater.
Read MoreThe outer cleaning station (one of our favourite dives at Socorro Island, first recommended to us by cinematographer Bob Cranston) had very good dive conditions with calm seas and mild current, five scalloped hammerhead sharks and one Galapagos shark. One giant manta ray cruising by didn’t seem interested in interacting with the divers. And, of course, the ever-present silky sharks shadowed the divers, curious but not aggressive.
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