Be prepared to wear a 40-50lbs weight harness whether in a wetsuit or drysuit, it is more comfortable than it sounds but you will need to enter and exit the cages with this weight on, with some help from the crew. Some have brought drysuits, but this is not normal diving as you are standing while cage diving and all the air then goes to your shoulders. These items can easily be rented in San Diego prior to the trip. I recommend a 7mm wetsuit with a hood, wetsuit boots and gloves.
If you are used to diving in the Caribbean it is going to be much colder if you dive in California it is going to be much warmer. Want to go when the water is the warmest? This would be the last consideration. In addition we cage dive very close to the island, we do get an afternoon shadow on the water when the sun goes behind the island, so less light in the water for photos The average August day length is 13:00 hours long, while the average November day length is 10:15 hours long. At the beginning of August this can be till 8:00pm. Evenings can get windy so always bring a jacket on this trip.Īnother factor is daylight, we usually cage dive starting at 7am and go till sunset. Once at Guadalupe, it is normally calm as the island and the area we cage dive provides a nice calm bay. I always recommend some kind of sea sickness medication for each person.
The crossings from Ensenada to Guadalupe Island are 160 miles of open ocean, this can be very smooth to very rough and does not matter if it is July or December or anytime in between. Very few tropical storms make it this far North and even fewer storms from Alaska make it this far south, leaving Guadalupe calm around the island where we dive. Researchers / film crews go during this time so that they we be out of sight and out of mind of the general public and vessels trying to get one last trip in will reduce costs to last minute film crews.įall hurricane season typically starts in September, while seldom does this effect Guadalupe it has been known to delay a few trips over the last decade. December most vessels have departed for calmer waters or have stopped operating for the season. Now days some vessels have found it easier to sell July Guadalupe shark trips than other destinations, so we see more trips now offered in July. The boats were either in dry dock being serviced or too busy fishing or diving. In the early days, our season was predicted not by the sharks, but by the vessel we used. I personally have been to Guadalupe many times in each month since in 2002. From the first trip in 2001 to present day 2020.
It is always good as Guadalupe has a 100% success rate in which every trip ever, we have seen sharks. While seeing your first Great White is always a day to remember, there really are no bad trips and no wrong time to go. To see both male and female sharks at the same time.While each month has its advantages, there are also drawbacks to each month also, it is very much a give and take. Guadalupe shark diving season is July – December 4 Great White Sharks Great White Shark Great White Shark Great White Shark below a Great White Shark above us a Great White Shark Great White Shark Great White Shark Great White Shark Great White Shark Guadalupe Cal Ripfin the Great White Shark
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