Trip Reports

What a beautiful week in Cocos! The weather was fantastic, the seas were flat, and the viz was excellent. On our very first dive to Manuelita Coral Garden we saw 2 tiger sharks, a manta ray, and hammerhead sharks. What a way to start the trip!

We had great Galapagos shark sightings at Manuelita, Dirty Rock, and Viking Rock. One of the best dives of the trip happened on the afternoon dive to Manuelita Coral Garden. We saw a tiger shark, a huge Galapagos shark, a manta ray, a turtle, and a school of hammerheads.

One of the coolest things we saw were whitetip reef sharks devouring a moray eel at Submerged Rock. We also spotted batfish at Lobster Rock and Submerged Rock, a blacktip at Alcyone, and manta rays at almost every dive-site. Biggest schools of hammerheads were at Alcyone and Small Dos Amigos.

This week in Cocos we had beautiful weather and fantastic tiger shark sightings. At just about every dive to Manuelita Out and Manuelita Channel we struck tiger shark gold. In total we had 8 sightings. These large sharks can range between 3m/10ft to 5m/16ft in length, here at Cocos they are usually between 3m/10ft and 4m/13ft.

We continued to see Galapagos sharks at almost every single dive site, with Punta Maria and Pajara tied for the most in one dive, with four. Small Dos Amigos was the best place to see big schools of hammerheads, and Dirty Rock was the best place for turtles. Dive conditions at the surface were very calm, with very little current, but we did have strong surge.

Check out the trip video with footage from Ronald Valverde and Edwar Herreño and their Go Pro cameras. Edited by Edwar Herreño.