Diving with Bull Sharks - Cabo Pulmo

[tiggymalvern]

Cabo Pulmo is a marine National Park in the southern Sea of Cortez. El Vencedor was a fishing boat that hit a reef and sank in the early 80s. It's now broken up and scattered over a sandy area of sea bed, but it's where a number of bull sharks like to while away the day. It's also where schools of snappers and other fish gather. I found a lovely free-swimming jewel moray among the nets, and there was also a hawksbill turtle being harassed by yellowtail surgeonfish.
Later we dived Los Morros, a reef known for its schools of jacks.

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This was the last day of diving on our trip, but I made this video first because sharks are more important than logic :-)

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[tiggymalvern]

We were FAR more excited than the sharks were :-) The sharks were largely uninterested, they were cruising around as they do. The younger one with the scars on his nose was a bit more curious about us and actually came by to look instead of just us being in the way.

Bull sharks do very good body language communication. You don't have to worry about them unless they're dipping their pectoral fins and hunching their backs and then they're telling you they want you to leave. As the dive guide said, she's perfectly happy with bull sharks in good visibility. She did say she wouldn't want to meet one in green water in Florida when you don't see it until it's six feet away and both you and the shark get a surprise.