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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We will stay for another day, just because it is THAT good.

So we are here at Roca Partida the weather is so nice and the water temp is 73 F it is warm . We have been seeing huge school of tuna and the sharks are just hanging around the school of skip jack . The vis is about 100 plus so it give the photographers […]

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WOW! Amazing mind blowing dive at Roca Partida with hundreds of schooling silkie sharks.

A change from Clipperton: Hundreds Mind blowing, never seen anything like it hundreds of sharks from white tips, silvertips, silkies to Galapagos and one hammerhead shark? Then there were the fish, never seen so many, huge schools of criole, huge black jacks, redtail trigger fish, massive shoals of cottonmouth and some kind of mackerel. The best […]

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Sharks, mantas and humpback whales at Roca Partida

For the last two days, we have been snorkelling in between dives at will, with humpback whales, a mother and calf. She is obviously a very comfortable mom as she lets Jr. roam a bit. The calf comes to the surface, breathes, frolics around the divers snorkelling at the surface, then goes back down to mom, who is hovering what appears to be motionlessly at about 8-10 metres below.

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