Socorro, officially known as Revillagigedo Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The trip to Socorro started from Cabo San Lucas on the Sol Mar V for me. After a boring 24 hours, we ended up in the tiny island of San Benedicto. After diving for a couple of days, we sailed over to Socorro for three days and then came back to San Benedicto for two more days of diving at El Boiler. Our journey back to Cabo San Lucas was longer and more stomach-churning.
The Socorro islands are known for the circling sharks, the dancing mantas, and the friendly dolphins. Some of the highlights of the trip are the manta flying over to get a bubble massage, a big reef shark with a broken fishing line, a pod of dolphins circling around us and the school of hammerheads.
Jacks - the local gangsters
A lone puffer
Moray - hiding in the rocks
Jack with a shark
More sharks!!
White tips, much bigger in real life
School of trevali
Manta - having a bubble bath
Circling sharks - 1
Circling sharks - 2
Circling sharks - 3
Watching from afar
Manta - coming in for a close up
Manta portrait
Hammerhead - 1
School - 1
School - 2
The hero - shark with a broken line
Trigger fish
Roaming trevali
Dolphins
Same but different
First Contact
Chevron Manta
Getting a closer look
Majestic Manta
Alien encounter
Blue fin trevali
Wishing for freedom
Diving dolphins
Just playing around
Fish tornado
Manta - 1
Manta - 2
Manta - 3
Flying in
Watching a flyby
Saying goodbye
Hammerheads - shy sharks
Hammerhead - 2
El Boiler - 1
El Boiler - 2
El Boiler - 3
