Just Returned from Cozumel; Blacktip and Hammerhead Sighting

[Guitarcrazy]

We just returned from our trip to Cozumel and it was a great experience. I will probably do a trip report, but for now just wanted to mention that we saw a blacktip at Punta Sur, and the next day a hammerhead cruised by us at the end of Palencar Horseshoe out in the blue. The hammerhead was moving and I didn't get the best look, but the divemaster and another diver in the group were closer and both said it was a hammerhead. There is a video but the GoPro image was too small too get a good look. Lots of wildlife on the trip, and numerous close encounters with Eagle Rays. Another diver at our resort saw a blacktip at Punta Sur the next day. Can't wait to go back.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Jaylus. All I got was anaphylactic shock from fire ants.

 

[Guitarcrazy]

Where were you staying that you got eaten up by fire ants? I have stayed at 6 different hotels/resorts and have never had a run in with fire ants.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Where were you staying that you got eaten up by fire ants? I have stayed at 6 different hotels/resorts and have never had a run in with fire ants.

It was my first time, too. We stayed in an airbnb with a backyard. my daughter wanted to go check out the coconut tree. I stepped on a nest. i would estimate roughly 50 stings. passed the **** out but nothing a handful of benadryl and steroids couldn't fix.

 

[brownie]

The "usual suspects" in Coz are very impressive--but black tips, hammerheads, and eagle rays are very special indeed--glad you and others got to enjoy them.

I have heard of only a few instances (count on one hand) of hammerhead sightings in Coz over the past 15 years that I have been diving there.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

The "usual suspects" in Coz are very impressive--but black tips, hammerheads, and eagle rays are very special indeed--glad you and others got to enjoy them.

I have heard of only a few instances (count on one hand) of hammerhead sightings in Coz over the past 15 years that I have been diving there.

supposedly there was one hanging out at Santa Rosa in February.

 

[deeper thoughts]

It was my first time, too. We stayed in an airbnb with a backyard. my daughter wanted to go check out the coconut tree. I stepped on a nest. i would estimate roughly 50 stings. passed the **** out but nothing a handful of benadryl and steroids couldn't fix.

Yikes glad you are ok

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Yikes glad you are ok

it was pretty crazy. i dove the day after and could only manage 30 minutes on an A80. Definitely threw me for a loop. This is a warning to anyone else going down there. Stay off the grass. Stick to the concrete.

 

[deepsea21]

it was pretty crazy. i dove the day after and could only manage 30 minutes on an A80. Definitely threw me for a loop. This is a warning to anyone else going down there. Stay off the grass. Stick to the concrete.

2 years ago I broke a bone in my foot a week before we were scheduled to dive Coz. No way I was going to have that put in a cast and miss my diving. Lotsa ice applied to my foot lounging about on vaca but I got my 2 weeks of diving in! Foot looks a bit different these days but who looks at someone else's feet anyway except a weirdo?

 

[Streydog]

We just returned from our trip to Cozumel and it was a great experience. I will probably do a trip report, but for now just wanted to mention that we saw a blacktip at Punta Sur, and the next day a hammerhead cruised by us at the end of Palencar Horseshoe out in the blue. The hammerhead was moving and I didn't get the best look, but the divemaster and another diver in the group were closer and both said it was a hammerhead. There is a video but the GoPro image was too small too get a good look. Lots of wildlife on the trip, and numerous close encounters with Eagle Rays. Another diver at our resort saw a blacktip at Punta Sur the next day. Can't wait to go back.

Awsome. Whenever the guides ask what we want to see I always say hammerheads, one day.