Scuba Diving La Gringa Moray Eels Malpelo Island

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.

This is the biggest rock on the South side of Malpelo. There is a cave that passes through part of this pinnacle between 130 and 80 feet. From here, with good visibility, it is possible to see three seamounts whose shallower depths reach 80 feet.

A school of innumerable bigeye jacks inhabit the exposed side of this rock where one frequently encounters groups of hammerheads as well. Sometimes Galapagos sharks also visit this area.