This is my second year working in Malpelo. I really have come to like this place! It is far away and one of the most remote and isolated dive destinations in the world. The Malpelo season this year was even sharkier than last year. In my 3 months of being here I have had 4 bait balls, encounters with the unique congregations of hundreds (up to 500!) of silky sharks that are almost all females… I don’t know why.
A lot of whale sharks this year and as always big schooling groups of scalloped hammerheads and big fully grown Galapagos sharks. Not to forget the blue water dives with yellowfin tuna!
I have never seen this many sharks in any other place I have dived.
But Malpelo is not the place for everybody. Big surges and ripping currents can occur. And you as a diver have to pay very good attention to what the mother of sea is telling you down there. Or she slaps your face big time. If you listen to her she will reward you!
