Los Frailes " The Dive Spot".......


Cabo Pulmo a 29 de Noviembre de 2002.
Hola !!
Well the diving it has been very good lately, we had been diving off Los Frailes Bay due to the northen wind , Los Frailes It’s the south part from the Marine Park, on this bay we have a submarine canon wich is about 750 feet, there is a number of good dive sites including a coral reef, I usually dive on the edge from the canon, I start in about 60 feet , and of course you can get as deep as you want to be but I only get down to about 100 feet the deepest, there is a wall along the canon , it looks like an abyss but it drops gradually, from 35 to 100 feet, there is a lot of big rocks that looks like if the ocean floor at one time open up and left this huge trench, the big rocks make a home for big groupers, big pargos, and lot of other kinds sea life such as the panamic moray eels, stone scorpion fish , and I had seen different kinds of sea shells and manta rays, gliding on the dark side from the canon, and after I like to reach the 35 feet deep coral reef, it’s just a long the edge from the canon, this one has the seven kinds of corals, beautifull formations and lot of schooling fish, and all kinds of pelagics swim by due to the edge from the canon.
The bay from Los Frailes it’s protected by the northen wind so it’s accessible all year around, I train a lot of new divers and it’s a great place for sea kayaking as well as for whale watching.
At one time my buddy Jonathan Roldan and some researchers we help a Humpaback whale from stranding, since the drop off from the canon it’s about 100 yds from the beach , even whales can come as closed to the coast in this bay.

Pepe’s Dive Center Dive Report :
Surface Water Temperature : 78 degrees
Bottom Water Temperature : 75 degrees
Thermocline : at 40 feet
Underwater Visibility : 70 feet.
High Lites : Schooling Pelagics such as amber jacks and sierra mackerel

Cabo Pulmo Marine Park Report :
This week I wrote a letter to the environmental protection agency, due to the serious problems the coral reefs are going through, an expert on coral reefs came to do a research a couple of months ago, and he noticed and told me that he belives about 7% from the coral died, In all my years diving around this place, I never seem that much death coral.
But coral grows on death coral so we still waiting for the results , we are waiting for the water temperature changing to see the effects.

Until next time….
Your Dive Buddy
Pepe Murrieta

Posted: 11/28/2002


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