Although the location for humpbacks changes from year to year, Roca Partida often yields the best whale sightings and interactions for scuba divers. Pictures, dive logs, reviews and articles. Diving was from the stern of the Nautilus Explorer when in the Canyon (4-1/2 days, 15 dives) or the Boiler (1/2 day, 2 dives).

It is amazing. Hammerheads circle down below. Humpbacks at Roca Partida. Roca Partida (Split Rock) offers you a place to relax and meld with nature.

Oh, and dolphins. Roca Partida Shark Breaching Tours Trips Prices Deals Tips Sharks Species List Blue shark (Prionace glauca): The most elegant, cute and playful shark, like a big puppy. Scuba diving at the Revillagigedo archipelago - Socorro Island - San Benedicto - Roca Partida - Mexico is only suitable for experienced flow divers, which don't fear to dive in th San Luciano Wreck. Average depths are 20-25 meters, with many sites having noticeable current. Roca Partida is a small crag only 40 meters high and 100 meters long that emerges from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Very slow moving ocean water tends to speed up a bit around seamounts, and Roca is no exception. Divers must obtain permits from the Mexican Armed Forces to enter into this military zone. The diving was excellent here at Roca Partida.

The 2 points of the split pinnacle rise above the surface and have met with the unfortunate fate of being a dumping ground for gulls and boobies that leave deposits all over the rock. Roca Partida, Split Rock, is one of the many natural wonders of the Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve.With a small, pristine beach, a thriving reef, warm winds and seas, and the namesake Split Rock, it’s a prefect place for adventure sports like hiking, rappelling and diving, or more relaxing activities like eating fresh seafood in the quiet cove. This is undoubtedly an place you will be able to enjoy a healthy and beautiful ecosystem. We were so spoiled by the end of the week.

This pinnacle rises 115 feet above the ocean's surface, but is only 300 feet wide.

But for divers, some of the best action happens around the seamount Roca Partida. Roca Partida is not really the place for a checkout dive as we got a vertical wall to dive by and the bottom is on 240 -250ft.

So what we are doing is to set up a shot line to 30 ft in the stern of the Nautilus Explorer and then leading a tight line up to the anchor chain and we all go down checking out bouyancyand gear and putting on our heads on dive mode. Roca Partica is a rock about 100 yards in length, sticking out like two horns from the sea, covered with quano.


White tips swim and nest in the nooks in the shallows. Roca Partida is not really the […] Although giant mantas will be the focus, we will also target sites that are known to have schools of hammerhead sharks, Galapagos sharks and other megafauna. Pic by sheraca .

Beneath the surface it's a magnet to pelagics and large schools of jacks and tuna. Conditions were excellent and the highlights were schooling hammerheads and a whale shark. Conditions were excellent and the highlights were schooling hammerheads and a whale shark. Since it is Friday, this will be a photo blog, mostly.
The best m It is the smallest island in the Socorro Islands Archipelago and can be surrounded a couple of times on one single dive.

The diving is advanced and challenging. – Al . Our last stop in our Revillagigedo diving expedition is Roca Partida.Our guests commonly encounter schools of hammerheads, white tip sharks, Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, giant manta rays, dolphins, an occasional whale shark and even humpback whales visiting from Alaska.. Roca Partida is a small pinnacle located west of Socorro and San Benedicto, about 250 miles south of Cabo San Lucas. Diving: Deep dives with strong current. However, with several diving areas up and down the coast and many offshore islands, it makes sense that many divers wish to visit the wild west coast.

Could definitely do it over and over again!

Diving here your will encounter eagle manta rays, turtles, shark and barracuda. So if we would get two nice calm days at Roca Partida we have to start there to do our check-out diving.

Diving here your will encounter eagle manta rays, turtles, shark and barracuda. The tip of the underwater peak rises just above the water’s surface, and at recreational diving depths it’s possible to circumnavigate the rock in a single dive.

It is situated upon a broad, flat-topped seamount, or guyot, in 80m of water, 30m height jutting from the sea and 100m wide. This trip has been everything I’ve asked for! The current is slight on the lee side and a wild ride on the windward. Roca Partida Dive Site near Socorro Island, Cabo San Lucas, San Jose Del Cabo, Todos Santos, La Paz, Islas Marias & San Nicolas Mexico. Roca Partida is the most happening place in the islands.