Now let the fun begin...
Dive 1
Site Name: Land Slide, Wolf Island
Max Depth: 100ft
Max Dive time: 60 minutes
Water Temp: 79
Details: This is going to become a very familiar site for us, and in general it´s always an exciting site to dive. My final dive details are, 45 minute dive, max depth 86ft, 50-60 ft visibility. Now the fun stuff... Ok, at the briefing we were told that we´d have some strong currents, and that we may just hang on the rocks and watch things go by. Strong??? hmm??? Now they weren´t joking about this, thank god I brought my gloves. Before we knew it we had our gear doned and heading for the zodiac, we loaded in and went straight towards the Island. After the hearing our typical start to the dive, ok everyone, check your weight belt, check you air, check your camera, let´s go... Kathy doesn´t have her weight belt... Oh great... but she´s integrated so she stuffed some more weights into her pockets... 1 2 3, let´s go... we all fall in, give the signal to the zodiac driver and head down, but for some reason Don and Kathy don´t follow us, later on we find out Kathy had a problem with her regulator so she aborted and Don thought he could catch up to us, but we never found him until he was on the zodiac...
Ok, so the dive... one word.. AWESOME!!!! We dropped down to 70ft and just hung on the rocks. The bubbles from our regulators weren´t taking their normal path of straight up, but instead they were heading horizontal... the current was strong, needless to say, i got bruised up from being pushed into rock and just trying to hold on... what a rush... As we sat at 70ft, sometimes moving slowly down the rocks, we spotted movement in the blue.... SHARKS!!! Hammerheads to be exact... Way to many to count, they basically hung out in the blue and at times one would come in close to check things out and then head back into the blue. besides sharks we spotted many turtles, eels, rays, black-tip sharks, galapagos sharks and of coarse the fish that just hung by us in the rocks. After about 35 minutes of being beaten by the current, we heading out into the blue for our safety stop... as we ascend, you can look around you, above you and below you, there were hammerheads everywhere. We had to watch out depth cuz just watching them we´d start to descend more into the blue, not the direction we were aiming for.
Dive 2
Site Name: Land Slide, Wolf Island
Max Depth: 100ft
Max Dive time: 60 minutes
Water Temp: 79
Details: As i said previously, we´re gonna become very familiar with this dive site... Dive time, 47 minutes, depth 65ft, visibility 50-60ft. Similar to the previous dive, the current was VERY STRONG, basically holding on for dear life. This time around, we stayed at a little shallower depth so that no one would deco out. We saw similar stuff as the first dive, turtles, sharks, tons of eels and fish. There was no way to count the number of hammerheads out there, but in the end, it was beautiful. I spotted on hammerhead that seemed to have a bit of attitude. He´s widdle out of this spot and flip his tail fin to another to get ahead of him. Not sure what was going on, but it was kewl to watch. Another kewl site to see was a school of eagle rays that saw above us as we decended at the beginning of the dive. Another interesting thing about the animals here, the barracuda´s. If you ever dove in the carribean, you will know that barracuda´s are some ugly looking fish, with big mean teeth... Not here in the galapagos. We found a school of barracuda´s as we started our ascent, and if no one corrected me i thought it was just some other fish. No big teeth, not ugly at all... kind of kewl...
That ends our dives for today, but tomorrow we travel 2 more hours into the pacific to spend a day at Darwin Island...
