Joshua Erdman
- Joshua Erdman's trip Galapagos 2012
2012-09-29 - Isla De Los Lobos, Galapagos, Ecuador
6.7m - 39 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
checkout dive Galapagos sea lion, green sea turtle very shallow 1st time in semi dry suit - VERY DRY! but very buoyant, needed more weight (had started with 28 lb)
whitetip reef shark, huge marbled ray, lots of reef fish all together
whitetip reef shark, eagle ray, Galapagos sea lions, several types of moray eel, snake eel
2012-09-30 - Cape Marshall, Galapagos, Isabela , Ecuador
21.9m - 40 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
aborted dive slightly early due to semidry suit malfunction for Cathy, making her cold GIANT salema school, big enough to drown out the light and look like a cave! THOUSANDS of fish moving together
2012-10-01 - Shark Bay, Wolf Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
22.3m - 49 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
dive from panga dive down, several complications (Cathy & I hooked), (someone lost weights) - occasional cold water upwelling (clearer H20), visibility was limited lots of hammerheads swimming by, many moray eels, other hark, Galapagos sea lion, green sea turtle, glasseye snapper, jacks, soapfish
2012-10-01 - Darwin's Arch, Darwin Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
25m - 36 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
WHALE SHARKS! Two giant bus-sized females passing by in the depths also: hammerheads (LOTS), turtle, big eagle rays, many morays a few feet away, octopus, garden eels in the sand, many jacks
2012-10-01 - Darwin's Arch, Darwin Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
24.1m - 40 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
again, fair amount of current reef filled with creolefish, passes by hammerheads, galapagos sharks, jacks WHALE SHARKS!! sea turtle, garden eels, galapagos snake eel buried in the sand
2012-10-02 - Darwin's Arch, Darwin Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
21m - 44 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
overcast, dark in the water many jacks & bonito swimming among creolefish school in the "theatre" hammerheads, sea turtle, lots of moray eel, leather bass, amarillo snapper, BIG yellowfin tuna, WHALE SHARK x2
2012-10-02 - Darwin's Arch, Darwin Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
27.7m - 44 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
Descended farther than intended - got off of reef and then descended to what appeared to be reef but was actually a whale shark Moved back to shallows, spent most of dive @ <40 ft, leather bass, morays Current had changed direction and surge was VERY strong, even at 30 to 40 feet
2012-10-02 - Darwin's Arch, Darwin Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
23.8m - 34 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
problem descending due to combination filled BCD / lost fin / flooded mask - burned 500 psi getting down to reef lots of current, a few hammerhead sharks at the end, mainly reef fish, moray eels, etc no whale sharks this time
2012-10-03 - Landslide, Wolf Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
24.1m - 49 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
dive in heavy current, cling to rocks fish cleaning station, large galapagos shark hung out, gold rim surgeonfish, trumpetfish, lobster, ocean triggerfish, hammerhead, sea turtle, jellyfish
2012-10-03 - Landslide, Wolf Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
21.9m - 53 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
strong current school of ten spotted eagle rays, lots of fish, MANY galapagos sharks passing by in the current (15-20+) baby whale shark (still big but tiny in comparison to the ones we saw before)
2012-10-03 - The Caves, Wolf Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
23.8m - 44 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
Dive along wall white tip reef shark, huge school of bigeye trevalle, giant porcupinefish, lobster, morays several caves & swimthroughs, green turtles, lava tube (huge) with soldierfish, glasseye snapper and very large snapper, wall in cave covered in tubeworm casings while diving safety stop in open water, one last WHALE SHARK!
2012-10-04 - Punta Vicente Roca, Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador
23.2m - 47 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
Coldest dive in Galapagos, descent on wall down to sandy area @ 70 ft, LOTS of turtles, marbled ray with no tail, small gobies & arrow crabs, tiny brittle stars seahorses! being tossed in the current, octopus Cathy saw a Mola but I missed it, sea lions playing with us during safety stop
2012-10-04 - Punta Vicente Roca, Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador
26.5m - 42 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
second dive, same location. Cold water but warmer than than first dive. Two big molas, red-lipped batfish x2, Port Jackson horn shark, Galapagos sea lion, sea turtles, orange & blue nudibranchs, scythe butterflyfish, seahorses Cathy did not dive
2012-10-04 - Punta Vicente Roca, Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador
22.6m - 52 min - Dived with Buddy Dive
third dive at this site, similar location but mostly shallower batfish again, azure parrotfish, peruvian grunt, several big molas! seahorses, sea turtles, galapagos sea lion playing with us, big school of salemas again
shallower dive, strong current galapagos sea lion, many fish
shallower dive, nudibranches, sea lion, octopus
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