TIGRE HERE, DAILY REPORT! LETS DO IT!!!

Had blasted out two good dives in the morning, then topped it off in the afternoon in this wicked little spot, not gonna tell you the name because its for me to know and for you to find out.  Anyways, in this quaint little spot, there are some rocks coming out of the water and […]

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Captain's report – a boiling mass of several hundred silkie sharks at Roca Partida!

Had another good day at Roca Partida today. Although still overcast the diving has been solid, morning time especially. Had another whale shark this morning and loads of good dolphin action, specifically some mating dolphins in the morning. This afternoon I took divers over to what looked like a small bait ball  looking for silkies. […]

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Roca Partida looks underwhelming from the surface. A huge school that seemed to go on forever underwater was mesmerizing..

Dive day two of our current Socorro expedition has us diving famous Roca Partida. A guano covered rock in the middle of the pacific ocean, seeing it from the surface is slightly underwhelming. As soon as you back-roll off our dive tenders and dip beneath the surface though the rock comes alive. Roca Partida is […]

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Our chief mate gets certified. First dive after open water training is quite SOMETHING out at Socorro..

What can I say.  For the second dive of my life post Open Water Certification (first dive was at the Boiler under the watchful eye of my good friend, Dive Master Joel), I rolled off the back of an inflatable boat at Roca Partida.  It was 3 minutes into the dive when a Whale Shark […]

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Shark Week has nothing on us today. I got so used to the shark action that I almost skipped the last dive. Whale shark!

Our first three dives were filled with the usual galapagos and silver tipped sharks, nests of white tipped reef sharks, giant tuna, wahoo and the odd pacific manta. My highlight so far was the three hammerhead encounters on my second dive this morning – stunning. I got so used to this amazing shark action that […]

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What was the zodiac inflatable doing underwater at Roca Partida?? Wait a sec. It was a WHALE SHARK!!

After the first dive all divers came out of the water with large smiles on their faces. Everybody was talking at the same time about the marine life they saw (how big, how many, what types?). After that, a very good, hot breakfast and another dive, better this time because a manta came around and […]

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This is why we love diving, this is why we spend so much time out at sea, this is why..

2013 is been a year with a lot of great surprises for me and one of the biggest is one of the trips that we just finished, this is why we love diving, this is why we spend so much time out at sea, this is why… by saying this is I mean we had […]

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