Smmcdonald
Ecuador
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Nº112
Date: 2018-06-13 - 13:47
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Max Depth: 25.3m Duration: 36mins
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- Temp: Surf 29°C Bottom 27°C
- Dive type : Recreational
- Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Weights: 7.3 kg
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Recent Divers in Wolf Island, Galapagos
Dive Shop & Buddies
Dive with Paulo from Explorer Ventures Liveaboard Diving
Dive buddies:
Jennifer McDonald,
Cathy Dingman,
James Shawver,
Johnny Kerr,
Dennis Zullig,
Tracy Newton,
John Dingman
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Dive Profile
- 1. Nitrox 32
- 12L Aluminium 206 → 42 bar
- Average depth: 17.4m
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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)
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Back to Shark Bay: Hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, an array of tropical fish and schools of pacific creole fish and jacks. I was getting low on air and decided to go up with Dennis and Johnny, as they were already heading out and up to their safety stop. Just when I reached them, I heard a rattle and looked out to see the group swimming in the opposite direction toward a big shadow. They had spotted a whale shark, and she was huge! Some good video was taken, and it was obvious she was carrying pups. While I was disappointed that we had missed her (well, missed being close to her), I was glad Jen got to see her up close. This was her first encounter with a whale shark, and she was so excited! Her trip was paid off at this point. As for me: maybe next time! We saw two in one day, and surely there will be more.