Los Morros

As a northern continuation of El Bajo, you'll encounter 'Los Morros'. With a similar depth to El Bajo, (about fifty feet), you will encounter slightly cooler water temperatures; this is due to it being closer to the underwater canyon, providing nutrient rich upwellings. As this dive sometimes has strong currents, running over a knott, the colder water and lower visibility can produce surprises and a beauty for experienced divers.

There are heads of reef, separated by sand which are blanketed by carpets of garden eels. While in the colder monthsmany kinds of kind of rays gather to ride out the Northerly winds. Meanwhile, year round, we find huge shoals of jacks and the predatory grouper. An absolute highlight is to bump into the enormous goliath grouper (before known as jew fish). They may reach extremely large sizes, growing to lengths of 8.2 feet (2.5 m) and can weigh as much as 800 pounds (363 kg) (NOAA Technical Report (PDF)). Of course reef fish like the king angel, surgeon, (bumphead) parrot fish and moray eels are ever present on the reef.

In the summer we've spent several entire dives inside a school of jacks... This is Henri's favorite site, especially in winter with the ever-present currents making it a great place to practise your navigation! Sometimes, when there is a lot of current its a dive to 'drift' to El Bajo and do the two sites in one gooooooo..!!! This place is perfect to work on your Advanced SCUBA skills for the PADI Advanced Open Water Course.