Silvertip shark

Resident year-round, particularly at Roca Partida.

RESOLVED BY TIER 1. CONANP, the Mexican protected-areas authority, states the tourist diving season as November to June, 07:00-18:00, with a park fee of $3,760 MXN per person per day. That corrects the commercial sources, which variously gave Nov-May and Nov-Jun/Jul. Encoded Nov-Jun open, Jul-Oct closed. The closure is operational and regulatory, not biological: mantas, silvertips and dolphins are resident through it.

Also at the feed.

Trips run year-round but the crossing is the constraint: 20 hours of open ocean each way means the Coral Sea leg is dropped or rerouted in weather far more often than the sheltered Ribbon Reefs are. Dec-Feb is cyclone season in the region, hence 'limited'. Low operating