Socorro Highlights Part 3

Just to have that privilege of diving with the big Pacific mantas and sharks, wow! The last day of diving in the Sea of Cortez, La Reina was so amazing, with nice rock formations, and sea lions swimming around you.

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I'm a non-morning person. But the squeaky wheels on our dawn dive were quieted within 5 minutes by the epic dolphins and giant mantas..

After an uneventful crossing, with light winds and a little chop, this week of diving started out with an epic day at San Benedicto Island.  Prior to our 2nd breakfast, we had an early, first dive at the Canyon.  Non-morning person, squeaky wheels, were quieted within the first 5 minutes by dolphin and giant mantas.  […]

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After leaving the main island Socorro, having some glorious Dolphins saluting us good bye, we anchor up at Roca Partida 7 hours later.

With the Sun rising creating a spectacular swirl of pink and orange, as we have our breakfast and dive briefing, still wiping the sleep out of our eyes.  Nothing like simply waking up and being at your new dive destination, even though 80 or so miles away. The Swell at Roca partida can be on […]

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If you can tear your eyes away from the big fish, you’ll find a vertical wall extending straight down for 200 feet with caves filled with resting white tip reef sharks lined up like sardines

Roca Partida as we know it from the surface is a guano covered rock extending about 100 feet into the air and about 200 feet in length, poking up out of the pacific ocean 60 nautical miles from the nearest island of Socorro. In the bigger picture it is the very tip, the last second […]

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Roca Partida was hammerriffic!! My pictures are lousy but the memories are priceless!

How was your dive with the mantas at the boiler? Fantastic! – Fawn. Today we had awesome day at Roca been surrounded by silky sharks, white tips sharks, silver tips, Galapagos and hammerhead sharks swam between a lot schools of jacks, tuna, black snappers, palometas and wahoo’s, so our guests were not bored for even […]

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Who knew that white tip sharks grade themselves by size? from small to big. From the Nautilus Explorer – Roca Partida

Arriving at 7AM to the Mexican Show on Roca was very welcoming to the boatload of Canadians made us feel right at home. Dropping into the blue with a dense school of jacks and trevally, interspersed with wahoo, puffers and oh yes, dozens of sharks!! White tips, silver tips, Galapagos, silky, hammerhead and apparently a […]

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