We did the first dive around 11:45am for 55 minutes. Visibility was about 40-50 ft. Water temperatures were about 73 F at the bottom to 83 F at the surface. Mild current & drift dive in dive site called El Bajo. Saw schooling of ~ 2-3 ft long Groupers including Golden Groupers, schooling of Grunts, schooling of Snappers, several swimming Green Morays, Cortez Anglefish, Stingray, Cownose Ray.
The 2nd dive was in El Vencedor wreck ~ 47 ft depth at around 1:18pm for 48 minutes. That’s the highlight of the trip. We saw about a dozen Bull Sharks. Some of them were bigger than us. I was kneeling down on the sandy bottom, admiring them, as this was my first time seeing Bull Sharks after 16 years of diving. They came close to me. I just held my ground and they just came closer and closer to as close as 6” (15 cm) to my face. I put my camera in front of my face, between my mask and the Sharks just in case they’d bump test me, it would be on my camera instead of my mask. Lots of schooling fishes above us like in the 1st dive. There were a couple of 4-ft Amber Jack hanging around in the wreck.
I have been diving in El Vencedor 3 times before in 2011, 2013, 2015 but have never seen Bull Sharks there. According to Arturo, the owner of Cabo Pulmo Travel,
Home, which was the dive operator that we went diving with today, the Bull Sharks just started to appear there 4 years ago, from September to June of the next year. They were coming there more and more every year and this is a Marine Park, so no Shark feeding allowed. So we were seeing the natural environment & behavior of the Bull Sharks. I guess there are so much smaller fish to hunt and feed on they are just not interested on us and not shy coming towards divers either. Simply incredible dive!
but very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing!
