Dive 194 : Isla Enderby, Galapagos, Ecuador

Dive No. 194 of 247

Date Jun 5, 2004

Bottom Time
To Date	141:42
This Dive	0:53
Cumulative Time	142:35

Location Isla Enderby, Galapagos, Ecuador

Time IN 8:43

Time OUT 9:36

SI	PG		PG

66' DEPTH			0:03 15ft STOP

		0:53

Air Temp 71F

Water Temp 70F

Visibility 60'

Buddy Henrik

Dive Chart

Notes

Best dive yet! Shortly after getting in the water we saw almost a dozen Galapagos Sharks being very active, almost like a feeding frenzy. Very exciting to watch especially while hanging on to rocks in the strong surge.
After that we didn't see many other sharks but saw three Octopus, apparently one female and two males mating. After that Melanie saw a huge yellow Pufferfish. My camera was fogged up around that time so I stopped taking pictures. Saw some Trumpetfish, very tiny Blennies living inside empty Barnacles and lots and lots of fish! Huge schools blocked out the sun (what little there was since it was mostly cloudy) immediately above us. Saw a Jewel Moray in a hole.
Near the end we backed up and swam back through the shallows hoping to find the Sharks again but no luck. However just as we were to ascend to our safety stop we saw a huge Whitetip Reef Shark. I didn't think it was a Whitetip at first as I've never seen one that big before.
During the safety stop we saw two Bonito pass by in the distance and shortly after that a huge Wahoo passed very close to us.

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Huge schools of Pacific Creolefish were just about everywhere.
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A Panamic Green Moray with what looks like a bad jaw.
Viewed: 49 times.

Fast moving Galapagos Shark.
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Another Panamic Fanged Blenny.
Viewed: 35 times.

King Angelfish.
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A friendly Mexican Hogfish.
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Orange Cup Coral, some of which is open.
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Where's the Octopus? There are three in this picture.
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Blue-striped Sea Slug.
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Melanie.
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Is that a Galapagos Barnacle Blenny?
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A Guineafowl Puffer in it's Golden Phase.
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Richard's shot of a Scrawled Filefish.
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Richard's nice shot of an octopus.
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