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| LOGBOOK EXCERPTS page 2 |
We are logging every dive we are doing in order to get some useful data along the time. The logbook excerpts are true excerpts of our logbook
available for your reference at our shop at Sta. Catalina. We are trying to keep this page of our web site up to date to give you a better overview
of changing diving conditions around the year.
Latest update: 21-June-2005
available for your reference at our shop at Sta. Catalina. We are trying to keep this page of our web site up to date to give you a better overview
of changing diving conditions around the year.
Latest update: 21-June-2005
dive site: El Faro (isla Canales/Coiba) date: 20-june-2004
time in: 15:21 time out: 16:00 depth max: 21m/72ft
current: 0 tide: up
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/81F
visib.surface: 15m+/50ft+ visib.bottom: 15m+/50ft+
remarks:
turtles, white tip reef sharks, different moray eels, 5 (4?) octopus, 2 flounders, 2 huge frog fish, 2 rooster fish (jacks)
dive site: Mali Mali (Coiba) date: 26-june-2004
time in: 11:45 time out: 12:35 depth max: 18m/60ft
current: moderate tide: down
temp. surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 20m/70ft visib.bottom: 15m/50ft
remarks:
white tip shark, nurse shark, big school of job fish, mullets, huge school of jacks, ORCAs at surfacing
dive site: Mali Mali (Coiba) date: 15-july-2004
time in: 13:09 time out: 14:00 depth max: 23m/75ft
current: medium tide: up
temp. surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 20m/70ft visib.bottom: 20m/70ft
remarks:
200 to 300 cownose rays, big school of big eye jacks, white tip sharks, octopus, 3 turtles, scoprpion fish, moray eels
dive site: Sta.Cruz (Coiba) date: 26-july-2004
time in:10:00 time out: 10:45 depth max: 20m/70ft
current: 0 tide: down
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/81F
visib.surface: 5m/15ft visib.bootom: 15m/45ft
remarks:
white tip reef sharks, different moray eels, lobsters, not so many fish (swell!) but ORCAs at surface
dive site: Aladin Rock (Coiba) date: 26-july-2004
time in: 15:50 time out: 16:50 depth max: 15m/50ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 10m/30ft
remarks:
wahoos, turtles, white tip reef shark, lots of moray eels, octopus, schools of small grunts and snappers, school of big
eye jacks. Nice and easy dive. On way back to the station encounter with 2 HUMPBACK WHALES (mother and baby?)
dive site: Bajo Cagao (Cebaco) date: 21-august-2004
time in: 08:06 time out: 08:56 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 5m/15ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
bad visibility after one week of heavy swell but: lots of blue fin and yellow fin trevally, nurse shark, turtle, and
HUMPBACK WHALES (mother and calf) playing close to the boat
dive site: Punta Pargo (Santa Catalina) date: 06-nov-2004
time in: 11:00 time out: 11:50 depth max: 32m/110ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 30m+/100ft+ visib.bottom: 30m+/100ft+
remarks:
eagle rays (at least 8 or more) circling around the main rock during the whole dive, masses of big eye jacks, yellow fin
trevally, amber jacks, black- and yellow tail snappers, angel fish, butterfly fish, surgeon fish, different moray eels,
schools of barracudas and chubs and spade fish, 2 or 3 yellow banded seasnakes,......what an excellent dive
dive site: Bajo Frijoles (Coiba) date: 09-dec-2004
time in: 11:12 time out: 12:07 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 29C/84F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 20m+/75ft+ visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
hammerhead shark, lots of whitetips, huge moray eels, frog fish and the usual schools
dive site: Mali Mali (Coiba) date: 09-dec-2004
time in: 14:53 time out: 15:55 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: slight east
temp.surface: 29C/84F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 20m+/75ft+ visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
2 big mantas, sharks, turtle, big sting ray, school of barracudas, amberjacks, jobfish, huge school of horseeye jacks,
bluefin trevallies....
dive site: Faro (Coiba/Canales) date: 10-dec-2004
time in: 14:44 time out: 15:39 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: medium south
temp.surface: 29C/84F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 20m+/75ft+ visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
100+ mantas (devil rays), eagle ray, turtle, sharks, amberjacks, moray eels, usual schooling fish
dive site:Punta Pargo (Sta. Catalina) date: 12-dec-2004
time in: 10:38 time out: 11:39 depth max: 29m/95ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 10m/35ft visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
juvenile WHALESHARK playing with our bubbles for 20 minutes, eage rays, school jacks and barracudas, lots of
plankton (bad viz but whale shark)
dive site:Pyramid (Sta. Catalina) date: 23-dec-2004
time in: 13:31 time out: 14:18 depth max: 18m/60ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 20+m/75+ft visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
2 mantas, white tip shark in hole, scorpion fish, pampanos and jacks schooling, lobsters, eels
dive site: Rompiente (Jicaron/Coiba) date: 10-jan-2005
time in: 15:00 time out: 15:46 depth max: 35m/115ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 15m/50ft
remarks:
very deep site with lots of canyons and passageways, covered with white soft corals, big nurse sharks, tunas, jacks, blue
fin trevallies, groupers / from boat: dolphins, sailfish, marlin, dorado
dive site: Baja Canales (Canales/Coiba) date: 26-jan-2005
time in: 14:00 time out: 14:46 depth max: 20m/75ft
current: strong south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
3 big mantas feeding in channel in strong current, fish soup: thousands of snappers, surgeons, angels, sharks in cave
dive site: Punta Pargo (Sta. Catalina) date: 31-jan-2005
time in: 10:30 time out: 11:15 depth max: 28m/95ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 21C/70F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 5-10m/15-30ft
remarks:
lots of everything: amberjacks, snappers, rainbow runners, pampanos, horse eye jacks, 3 massive jew fish
dive site: Pyramid (Sta. Catalina) date: 09-mar-2005
time in: 13:18 time out: 13:55 depth max: 18m/60ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 24C/75F
visib.surface: 10m/30ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
big school of devil rays
dive site:Viuda (Coiba) date: 13-mar-2005
time in: 11:50 time out: 12:40 depth max: 24m/80ft
current: medium south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 20C/68F
visib.surface: 20m/70ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
25+ white tip sharks circling around us the whole time around "their" sandflat on top of the rock, turtle, school of big
amber jacks, fiant lobsters, giant morays and giant stingray, snappers, jacks,...
dive site:Faro (Canales/Coiba) date: 14-mar-2005
time in: 15:38 time out: 16:21 depth max: 24m/80ft
current: strong south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 23C/74F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
about 300 devil rays, huge school of barracudas, amber kacks, white tip sharks, free swimming moray eels
dive site:Faro (Canales/Coiba) date: 24-mar-2005
time in: 14:12 time out: 15:13 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: slight south
temp.surface: 27C/80F temp.bottom: 23C/74F
visib.surface: 10m/30ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
big school of cownose rays, smaller school of mantas, big turtle, small turtle and the usual schools of fish
dive site:Frijoles (Coiba) date: 04-jun-2005
time in: 13:00 time out: 13:50 depth max: 25m/85ft
current: slight south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 15m/50ft
remarks:
schools of barracudas, frog fish, lots of white tip reef sharks, 100+ cownose rays
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time in: 15:21 time out: 16:00 depth max: 21m/72ft
current: 0 tide: up
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/81F
visib.surface: 15m+/50ft+ visib.bottom: 15m+/50ft+
remarks:
turtles, white tip reef sharks, different moray eels, 5 (4?) octopus, 2 flounders, 2 huge frog fish, 2 rooster fish (jacks)
dive site: Mali Mali (Coiba) date: 26-june-2004
time in: 11:45 time out: 12:35 depth max: 18m/60ft
current: moderate tide: down
temp. surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 20m/70ft visib.bottom: 15m/50ft
remarks:
white tip shark, nurse shark, big school of job fish, mullets, huge school of jacks, ORCAs at surfacing
dive site: Mali Mali (Coiba) date: 15-july-2004
time in: 13:09 time out: 14:00 depth max: 23m/75ft
current: medium tide: up
temp. surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 20m/70ft visib.bottom: 20m/70ft
remarks:
200 to 300 cownose rays, big school of big eye jacks, white tip sharks, octopus, 3 turtles, scoprpion fish, moray eels
dive site: Sta.Cruz (Coiba) date: 26-july-2004
time in:10:00 time out: 10:45 depth max: 20m/70ft
current: 0 tide: down
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/81F
visib.surface: 5m/15ft visib.bootom: 15m/45ft
remarks:
white tip reef sharks, different moray eels, lobsters, not so many fish (swell!) but ORCAs at surface
dive site: Aladin Rock (Coiba) date: 26-july-2004
time in: 15:50 time out: 16:50 depth max: 15m/50ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 10m/30ft
remarks:
wahoos, turtles, white tip reef shark, lots of moray eels, octopus, schools of small grunts and snappers, school of big
eye jacks. Nice and easy dive. On way back to the station encounter with 2 HUMPBACK WHALES (mother and baby?)
dive site: Bajo Cagao (Cebaco) date: 21-august-2004
time in: 08:06 time out: 08:56 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 5m/15ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
bad visibility after one week of heavy swell but: lots of blue fin and yellow fin trevally, nurse shark, turtle, and
HUMPBACK WHALES (mother and calf) playing close to the boat
dive site: Punta Pargo (Santa Catalina) date: 06-nov-2004
time in: 11:00 time out: 11:50 depth max: 32m/110ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 30m+/100ft+ visib.bottom: 30m+/100ft+
remarks:
eagle rays (at least 8 or more) circling around the main rock during the whole dive, masses of big eye jacks, yellow fin
trevally, amber jacks, black- and yellow tail snappers, angel fish, butterfly fish, surgeon fish, different moray eels,
schools of barracudas and chubs and spade fish, 2 or 3 yellow banded seasnakes,......what an excellent dive
dive site: Bajo Frijoles (Coiba) date: 09-dec-2004
time in: 11:12 time out: 12:07 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 29C/84F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 20m+/75ft+ visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
hammerhead shark, lots of whitetips, huge moray eels, frog fish and the usual schools
dive site: Mali Mali (Coiba) date: 09-dec-2004
time in: 14:53 time out: 15:55 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: slight east
temp.surface: 29C/84F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 20m+/75ft+ visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
2 big mantas, sharks, turtle, big sting ray, school of barracudas, amberjacks, jobfish, huge school of horseeye jacks,
bluefin trevallies....
dive site: Faro (Coiba/Canales) date: 10-dec-2004
time in: 14:44 time out: 15:39 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: medium south
temp.surface: 29C/84F temp.bottom: 27C/80F
visib.surface: 20m+/75ft+ visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
100+ mantas (devil rays), eagle ray, turtle, sharks, amberjacks, moray eels, usual schooling fish
dive site:Punta Pargo (Sta. Catalina) date: 12-dec-2004
time in: 10:38 time out: 11:39 depth max: 29m/95ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 10m/35ft visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
juvenile WHALESHARK playing with our bubbles for 20 minutes, eage rays, school jacks and barracudas, lots of
plankton (bad viz but whale shark)
dive site:Pyramid (Sta. Catalina) date: 23-dec-2004
time in: 13:31 time out: 14:18 depth max: 18m/60ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 20+m/75+ft visib.bottom: 10m/35ft
remarks:
2 mantas, white tip shark in hole, scorpion fish, pampanos and jacks schooling, lobsters, eels
dive site: Rompiente (Jicaron/Coiba) date: 10-jan-2005
time in: 15:00 time out: 15:46 depth max: 35m/115ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 15m/50ft
remarks:
very deep site with lots of canyons and passageways, covered with white soft corals, big nurse sharks, tunas, jacks, blue
fin trevallies, groupers / from boat: dolphins, sailfish, marlin, dorado
dive site: Baja Canales (Canales/Coiba) date: 26-jan-2005
time in: 14:00 time out: 14:46 depth max: 20m/75ft
current: strong south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
3 big mantas feeding in channel in strong current, fish soup: thousands of snappers, surgeons, angels, sharks in cave
dive site: Punta Pargo (Sta. Catalina) date: 31-jan-2005
time in: 10:30 time out: 11:15 depth max: 28m/95ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 21C/70F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 5-10m/15-30ft
remarks:
lots of everything: amberjacks, snappers, rainbow runners, pampanos, horse eye jacks, 3 massive jew fish
dive site: Pyramid (Sta. Catalina) date: 09-mar-2005
time in: 13:18 time out: 13:55 depth max: 18m/60ft
current: 0
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 24C/75F
visib.surface: 10m/30ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
big school of devil rays
dive site:Viuda (Coiba) date: 13-mar-2005
time in: 11:50 time out: 12:40 depth max: 24m/80ft
current: medium south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 20C/68F
visib.surface: 20m/70ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
25+ white tip sharks circling around us the whole time around "their" sandflat on top of the rock, turtle, school of big
amber jacks, fiant lobsters, giant morays and giant stingray, snappers, jacks,...
dive site:Faro (Canales/Coiba) date: 14-mar-2005
time in: 15:38 time out: 16:21 depth max: 24m/80ft
current: strong south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 23C/74F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
about 300 devil rays, huge school of barracudas, amber kacks, white tip sharks, free swimming moray eels
dive site:Faro (Canales/Coiba) date: 24-mar-2005
time in: 14:12 time out: 15:13 depth max: 21m/70ft
current: slight south
temp.surface: 27C/80F temp.bottom: 23C/74F
visib.surface: 10m/30ft visib.bottom: 5m/15ft
remarks:
big school of cownose rays, smaller school of mantas, big turtle, small turtle and the usual schools of fish
dive site:Frijoles (Coiba) date: 04-jun-2005
time in: 13:00 time out: 13:50 depth max: 25m/85ft
current: slight south east
temp.surface: 28C/82F temp.bottom: 28C/82F
visib.surface: 15m/50ft visib.bottom: 15m/50ft
remarks:
schools of barracudas, frog fish, lots of white tip reef sharks, 100+ cownose rays
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