Galapagos, Ecuador, Dec 2003
Dive Trip Report
Dive site:
Gordon rocks (underwater crater, Santa Cruz Island)
Dive 16:
Water temperature: 24°C
Bottom time: 46 min
Max depth: 91 ft
Viz: 30-40 ft.
Last dive of the trip. strong current, very interesting configuration of the place, and lot of life there.  It's an underwater crater, which has lost one side of the wall because of the current, it has a pinnacle in the center, and at the opposite side of the crater there are a lot of pinnacles where the current goes trough.  surge was strong too, and the day was cloudy, we didn't had great viz,  the walls were all covered with a blue-purple something, that looks like velvet, there we saw a huge hammerhead, then we went to the central pinnacle were we saw a large stingray, and 2 or 3 hammerheads, and a huge school of small-size barracudas. then we went to the opposite side  of the crater, a wall with lots of "holes" filled with shells, and small fishes, also we saw 6 white tip sharks, and 3 sea lions at the safety stop. really nice last dive of the trip.