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 […]
Read MoreWhat 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 […]
Read MoreOur 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 […]
Read MoreAfter 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 […]
Read More2013 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 […]
Read MoreWhaleshark! Conditions at Roca Partida were ideal for a perfect dive day at the Nautilus Explorer today. There was a very nice breeze coming from north, sunny day, 32C on the surface “Nice”, underwater the conditions where even better, visibility was extremely good 80ft, temp of the water 24C. Starting the dive with some […]
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