Scuba Diving The Twins Malpelo Islands Sharks Colombia

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.

Other common sites are the white tip shark, Galapagos shark, giant schools of angel fish, Creole fish, jacks, tuna, and occasionally a sail fish, whale shark and even Humpback Whale. Algae, moss and lichens cover the rugged cliffs of Malpelo which host the 2nd largest Masked Booby colony in the world, approximately twenty five thousand birds.

Depth: 20 - 110 ft. 6 - 33 m. Marine life: Hammerheads, silkies, eagle rays, scorpionfish, eels. Two long pinnacles that grow almost parallel up to 30 feet forming canyons that schools of hammerheads and eagle rays like to swim through. Numerous scorpion fish together with eels can be observed on the shallower parts of these pinnacles.