El Bajo Seamount

El Bajo is a trio of submerged seamounts rising from 300 meters to a shallowest peak at 18 meters. From June through October, the currents sweeping over the seamount aggregate massive schools of scalloped hammerheads, sometimes numbering in the hundreds. Giant mobula rays perform their trademark somersaulting leaps at the surface and gather in vast underwater aggregations in summer. Oceanic manta rays use the seamount pinnacles as cleaning stations. The topography itself is dramatic — sheer walls encrusted with black coral and gorgonians dropping into the blue. This is open-ocean current diving requiring experience and attention to conditions.