On Wednesday MJ and I went on a 2-tank dive trip. We dove with Scuba Steve out of Nuevo Vallarta. Scuba Steve is a PADI certified shop running out of the Paradise Villa Hotel. We went out to the Los Arcos dive site, just south of Puerto Vallarta. Both dives were reef dives.
The first dive was along an underwater wall. The top of the wall was around 70-80 feet. The wall dropped to a depth of 1600 feet. Our max depth was 80 feet with a total duration of 35 minutes. We saw a bunch of moray eels, zebra eels, angel fish, puffer fish and many of the typical reef fish. Due to the max depth we reached, we did a 3 minute safety stop at 20 feet to help our bodies off gas excess nitrogen. I believe this dive was one of MJ’s deepest dives to date.
I used a GoPro Hero4 to capture the video and pictures. On the first dive I used a red color correcting filter to compensate for the loss of light underwater. During the first dive I realized that there was considerable green in the water. So on the second dive I used a magenta color correcting filter which compensates for both the loss of reds and the excess green color.
First Dive Video:
The second dive went to a max depth of 60 feet and a duration of 45 minutes. We came across a pipe fish, a spotted eagle ray, and an octopus. While we were at a depth of 50 feet and motor boat passed directly over our heads. The octopus was a rather large one, about 12 inches across.
Second Dive Video: