Scuba Diving Castaway Coast Pelagic Sharks Malpelo Island

The submarine environment surrounding Malpelo is defined not only by its isolation but also by its location, which is highly influenced by several diverse marine currents. This phenomenon provides for a focus in the dispersion of marine fauna throughout the Indo Pacific and Western Pacific.

Malpelo is home to an important coral formation as well as a large variety and quantity of marine creatures. Of special interest is the hammerhead shark with its awe-inspiring schools reaching up to 300 hundred individuals. The two most outstanding phenomena in Malpelo are the huge number of cluster and free swimming moray eels and the enormous congregations of silky sharks who often mix with hammerheads to form colossal shark schools.

Marine life: Hammerheads, silkies, tunas, mantas, eels, jacks, barracudas. This side of the island is so full of Creole fish, eels, sea bass, jacks and sea urchins that if you are distracted looking at a pacific manta or group of hammerheads, you can get lost… .