I 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.
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Our first day at Roca Partida was hard to beat (school of hammerhead, 6 different giant pacific mantas playing around with us) but current has been picking up today and sharks have been showing up on our last dive. We saw 5 different species of sharks in one dive: white tipped reef, silvertip, galapagos, silky, […]
Read MoreWe are about a third of the way through our current dive expedition to the Socorro Islands. This expedition is 13 days total and will include 11 days of diving. One benefit of this extra long trip is the chance to visit Isla Clarion. Clarion is the last of the 4 islands of the Revillagigedo […]
Read MoreAfter 4 weeks off being back on board feels really good. Especially with with a great group of divers and crew. We spent our first day at the canyon on San Benedicto. Some of the guests and Juan (Dive Master)saw a group of Hammerheads, for the 2nd and 3th dive we moved to the […]
Read MoreHow was your day? Two lovely dives today. Sort of like a walk in a park. Erik. Every thing was great. The dives, the boat, the food and especially the crew. Marianne, from Switzerland. How was your day? Galapagos sharks, white tips, a couple of hammers. Many octopi out and about. Nudibranchs on the […]
Read MoreSo we started up with high expectations at Socorro and getting out on the lava flow in search of this big group of hammerhead sharks that we have seen here and the very very good encounters of the giant mantas that we have had this year. And we dove and we dove and dove and […]
Read MoreRoca Partida woke up this afternoon! Along with some lively action on the surface was some equally live action below with sharks of all kinds lurking about. Duskies, Silkies, Galapagos, White tips, Silver tips and Hammerheads were converging on the Rock today in a shark convention it seemed. While the Nautilus held fast in […]
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