10/26/2020 Devil Ray

Catalina's Arco Iris

Captain: Santos
Guides: Dylan (393703)

Safety Divers: Dylan

Dive Site Depths: 68ft Max

Dive Times: 56 minutes
Temperature: 75 F
Visibility: 30-50 ft
Highlights: Great dive at Arco Iris, dove with 4 people Ted, Eric, Mark, and Sydney from Philadelphia. Began with a boat dropping us off at west side of main rock and we started swimming around scattered rocks and sandy bottom keeping rock on our right. Seen green moray eels and jewel moray eels before we got to the first channel. Went thru channel then turned right, swam up the rocky ledges where we came across a huge school of fish, spotted tail grunts, a cloud of them. Also had white tip reef sharks x 2 swimming around us during this time. As well of schools of pargo, yellowtail surgeon fish, spade fish. We played with these fish for at least 15 minutes getting lost in the schools. Continued to "shark pool" area where the sharks usually hangout on the northern tip of dive site. But did not see any there. Turned around and continued dive keeping rock on our right. Came across a nurse shark nestled under a rock which was a nice surprise. We came across a large crevice with a sandy bottom which had 4 x large white tip reef sharks nestled in there, a good opportunity for photos.