Dan
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I dive cabo now every time I go,ive been 3 times in last 18 months. I will dive cabo pulmo and all the local cabo corridor dives. I will not dive Gordo Banks as ive talked to locals and its open ocean often with strong current out in the middle of nowhere. I would require a personal DM , PLB, and Nautilus lifeline with minimum 100cf tank. and a pony tank which is next purchase. That dive profile scares me.
that being said the one relative in vid definitely said another brother saw and tried to reach them however they were sinking too fast and deep to reach. This could mean just being carried away by current or equipment malfunction OOA situation etc. In any event I am merely guessing but I know local operators and most divers will be on single tanks but they will insist on a nitrox blend for that dive. like another poster said , around 27 or 28. Hopefully the third family member has no survivor guilt as they couldnt have rescued two other divers at extreme depth regardless.
Thanks for the info. I’ve been in Cabo Pulmo 3 times (2011, 2013, & 2015). Thinking that I may visit Gordo Bank in one of the return visit to Cabo. I may scratch that idea after reading these posts, especially after going to Revillagigedo Archipelago last week.
If you want to see schooling hammerheads around there, you might as well take a week-long liveaboard to Revillagigedo Archipelago. You would, not only diving in much saver underwater environment, but also seeing other big animals such as Pacific Oceanic Mantas (1-3 of them at almost every dives of the 19 dives we made for that week), Dolphins, many kinds of sharks (White-tip, Silver-tip, Galápagos, Silky). We dove El Cañon of San Benedicto during Christmas day and saw the schooling hammerheads at 80 feet depth (see picture below). I was wearing 5mm wetsuit for the 75 deg.F water temperature with very little to no current.
I did carry DSMB, Dive Alert, PLB1, Nautilus Marine Rescue GPS for this kind of diving all the time I was there. We used 28-32% Nitrox.