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  • Nº110 # Date: 2018-06-13 - 07:11
  • # Max Depth: 24.1m Duration: 44mins
Diver's Notes

Wolf Island, we were told, has four primary dive sites. Two of these held the most promise: Shark Bay and Landslide. These were adjacent to each other on the eastern side of the island. Another nearby dive site was called the Caves, but promised less abundant marine life. The fourth, near Elephant Rock, had vertical currents, and could be challenging with no more reward than the others. Thus, we agreed to dive Landslide and Shark Bay, starting with the latter. Sometimes a strong current rips through, but today it was mostly surge we had to deal with, and not a lot of that. The water was much warmer here, and I decided to shed the 3mm (much to Dennis' delight, who borrowed my 3mm and, subsequently, let James borrow his 5mm in lieu of James wearing his 7mm), but stayed at 16 lbs just in case I needed to get down quick. Paulo was our guide today, and he led us down a steep wall to 70 feet, along a ledge where everyone spread out and anchored themselves into or onto a rock. Here, we could peer over into the deeper ocean where dozens of hammerheads and galapagos sharks circled about! What an amazing experience! The sharks circled below us but would not come close: they are much more skiddish than I had imagined them to be. The galapagos sharks seemed a bit more curious--or at least less afraid, but even they kept their distance. Nearer to us, we saw two green sea turtles and several moray eels. Small schools of fish were abundant just above the rocks, while further out and up, larger jacks were present. Not long into our dive, we got a good omen of what was to come when we sited a whale shark swimming overhead. This was my personal first siting, and it filled me with excitement and anticipation. We were not holding out a lot of hope to see any--or maybe one or two--due to the Humboldt Current not yet making its way this far north. But now we knew they were there, and were hopeful for more sightings.

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  • Temp: Surf 28°C Bottom 27°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Camera: GoPro - Hero 6
  • Computer: Shearwater - Perdix AI
  • Fins: Scubapro - Twin Jet
  • Mask: Genesis - Panview
  • Regulator: Scubapro - AIR2
  • Regulator: Scubapro - MK21/S560
  • Weights: 7.3 kg
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  • Dive buddies: Jennifer McDonald, Cathy Dingman, James Shawver, Johnny Kerr, Dennis Zullig, Tracy Newton, John Dingman
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  • 1. Nitrox 32
  • 12L Aluminium     206 → 27 bar
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  • Average depth: 18.5m
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Species Identified

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834) (scalloped hammerhead) Forming impressively large schools, female scalloped hammerheads gather in the Gulf of California during the day, around underwater mountains known as seamounts, where they perform a wide range of poorly-understood behavio...
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Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller, 1905) (Galapagos shark)
Chelonia mydas Linnaeus 1758 (Green Turtle) Green turtles are long-lived and may take up to 59 years to reach sexual maturity Undertaking tremendous feats of navigation, adults return to the same beach to breed each season, part of the population in Brazil astonish...
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