Galapagos Islands: School Of Jacks
- Natalie Parra
- May 12, 2017
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 23, 2018
We had just jumped in the water at Darwin's Arch and were exploring around when I saw my first few scalloped hammerheads up close. I've only seen hammerhead sharks twice before in Hawaii and both times they swam submissively low in the water column beneath the other sharks and didn't hang around. It was a bit like "Look! Oh he's gone." Overfishing has deavstated scalloped hammerhead shark populations around Hawaii, as well as Makos and Blue Sharks. Most people aren't even aware they exist around here until getting the rare chance to see them. So when I popped my head out to see if the other divers faces were as excited as mine and I didn't see them I was thinking to myself, what on earth could be more fascinating than this right now? I swam towards them and turns out there was a GIANT school of jacks with a sea turtle, Galapagos, and Silky Sharks on the outskirts. My friend Ocean Ramsey would swim through in just the right way to get the fish to tornado up around her while Roberto Ochoa He, Juan Oliphant, and Guillaume Nery filmed for Galapagos Evolution. That's just how Galapagos is, and I guess how the majority of the ocean used to be, so full of life in every direction you don't even know where to look! I just wanted to strap GoPros all over my body and play through the footage later to see what I had overlooked hahahah!
To see more you can now get Galapagos Evolution on iTunes, Amazon, Vimeo On Demand, and Google Play! It is directed by Roberto Ochoa He, narrated by Pierre-Yves Cousteau, and features fellow free divers Ocean Ramsey, Juan Oliphant, Guillaume Nery, Diran Devletian, the amazing scuba diver Leo Morales, and biologist Pelayo Salinas.
It was shot aboard the Nortada vessel with the Cressi team.
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