![A playful sea lion with beautiful eyes at Cedros Island]()
Guadalupe-Socorro Combo Trip Kicks off the Socorro Season
Read MoreWe had Great Whites in Guadalupe, lots of California Sea Lions on the way down south, now Giant Mantas and Silky sharks and dolphins…all in one trip, and the best still lays ahead.
![Sea of cortez Whale Sharks]()
The First Report from Bahía de los Ángeles
Read MoreThe day ended with a whale shark jamboree, with five or six different individuals providing super up close and personal encounters.
![Giant Manta Identification, Photo by Miguel Ortiz]()
Giant Manta Identification in the Revillagigedo Archipelago
Read MoreI worked with giant manta identification to differentiate each individual, and thus evaluate their population. This helps to obtain important information including how many individuals are in the biosphere reserve, how many mantas are present every season and if there are new mantas every season. It also includes which islands attract more mantas, how many females and males are there, and how the mantas move between the islands.
![Divers check out a giant manta, photo by Dan Orr]()
Socorro Highlights Part 2
Read MoreOur first 2 dives were at El Canyon. On the first one, our check-out dive, as soon as we got in the water, a group of five dolphins showed up and with them was the baby dolphin that we have been seeing on the last couple of trips. After the dolphins, we saw a couple hammerheads and three mantas that were swimming around us all the way to the safety stop.
![Underside of a Giant Manta at Socorro]()
DMs Say Goodbye to Socorro for the Season
Read MoreOn the last day of diving at Roca Partida we had pretty much everything; lots of sharks, mantas, tunas schooling, dolphins, and a massive whale shark that just kept doing loops around the rock (we got to see it on three dives!).
![Whale Shark at Socorro by Howard Hall]()
Marine Biologist Miguel Meets his First Manta
Read MoreAnd there it was: a beautiful animal, a majestic MANTA, the first one in my life. My heart started beating fast, my breath was taken away, my eyes and mind hypnotized. The best experience of my life, I finally saw my dream in front of me, a moment I have taught about a thousand times, and it came true, I was not dreaming.
![Manta & bubbles at Roca Partida]()
See you next season Socorro!
Read MoreRoca saved the best for last with a 12 metre whale shark, along with a manta in one of the dives. Simply unbelievable. When we turned around the corner, schools of Galapagos was covering the bottom blue of Roca Partida!
