Today we had an exciting day of sharks here in the Sea of Cortes, and it all started with an amazing sunrise! Our first dive of the trip was in a place called El Rincon, in the bay of Los Frailes! As with all trips, we did a checkout dive to fine tune our gear before the big show! This area was abundant in lots of juvenile fish like snappers, parrot fish, puffers, etc, shelter area for all type of juvenile fish, there were some sea lions in the area also barking very loudly! The second dive took place at El Bajo one of the main dive sites here at Cabo Pulmo, there was an amazing the congregation of fish in this area, from yellow snappers, groupers, parrot fish, Moorish idols, yellow tail surgeon fish, some Panamic pork fish, golden groupers, garden eels and a big sea turtle showed up too! The hard coral were very colorful with different tones of green and browns, indicating that they are very healthy. The third dive took place at El Vencedor, it was once a wreck dive although there are pieces all over, so really cannot tell it was a tuna boat any more, but fish now use it as shelter. At only 50ft/15m you can sit on the bottom and wait all fish will surround you! You cannot see out of this circle of fish, the best thing can ever happen to you in this place is to have a close encounter with bull sharks as we did, they like to circle this place, come across the dive area so you really have to keep your eyes open, they just show up next to you before you know it and it is too late to snag a photo! We had the joy to dive with 9 of these majestic animals in the same frame! Visibility varied from 50-80+ across all dive sites with a consistant surface temperature of 82˚F/26˚C!
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:12:39 +0000
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