Dive Conditions

Visibility: 45 ft / 14 m

Water Temp. 78°F / 26°C

Currents

mild

strong

Weather

Climate

sunny

rainy

Sea

calm

choppy

Crossings

to Cocos Island

calm

choppy

to Puntarenas

calm

choppy

Sea Hunter

“We came to see Hammerheads & WOW we saw them them on every dive along with Tigers , Galapagos , Silkies , and a black tip or two sprinkled in . Our Favorite dives, Alycione, Dirty Rock & Manuelita outside. The crew were awesome and had a wonderful surprise celebration for us .. We couldnt be more grateful and blessed to have been on such a great boat with an awesome crew and a wonderful group of divers!” — Suzie & Bob Oliver

Now for the trip highlights:

Dirty Rock was the best this week!! We saw so many hammerheads both at the cleaning station and out in the blue, plus dolphins at the surface and also a manta ray. Later in the week we were able to watch dolphins hunting.

Alcyone put on an amazing show of huge schools of hammerheads out in the blue at the safety stop, plus Galapagos sharks. We saw tigers in Manuelita Channel and Outside. We had an excellent dive at Small Dos Amigos, with many hammerheads and Galapagos sharks at the cleaning station as well as four silky sharks at the safety stop.

At Punta Maria we encountered a massive 4-meter tiger shark that came in super close to us. The pinnacle was just full of whitetip reef sharks. Submerged Rock was just beautiful, with tunas hunting and dolphins. The swimthrough was full of blue-and-gold snappers.

Afternoon dives at Pajara were lovely, and we got to experience some of Cocos Island’s renowned macro life – including sea horses and scorpionfish. Toward the end of the week, we were able to visit Chatham Bay and take a look at the ancient rock carving there.

This was one of our guests’ 25th expedition aboard the Sea Hunter — and we got to see Cocos Island magic at its finest! Happy 25th trip, JD Duff!

This trip was awesome. My best one yet of the three times I have been here. Manuelita, Dos Amigos Pequeño and Dirty Rock were the best for shark action amd photos. Fantastic trip. Great crew. Food was delicious (gracias Lucho). Javier was wonderful as always. Juan Manuel, Daniel, Carlos and Pipi were great in the water. Balin was outstanding driving the skiff in some rough conditions. And Raul ran a beautiful trip again. Always first class top to bottom. Gracias amigos! Pura Vida!

Jonathan Wasserman, Palm Beach Gardens, FL USA

Javier is the best. He is so funny and warm. Juan Manuel made dives fun and he has the best personality. He should be a cartoon charactor. Thanks to Carlos and the rest of the staff. The captain and Pipi who had fun music and danced and the food was so good.
This is my husband, JD Duff’s, 25th trip with the Sea Hunter and my 4th. Thank you for such a great operation. Alan at the office is always so great and he really helped us with an issue we had getting Bob and Suzie’s lost luggage from SJO and delivering it to the boat just in time.

Suzie and JD