Marisla Seamount

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Marisla Seamount, also known as "El Bajo", is located about 8 miles NNE of La Paz, Mexico. There are three underwater peaks arrayed three hundred yards, 120°-300°; the northernmost to 83 ft of the surface, the central peak to 52 ft, and the southern to 69 ft.

This is a site for schooling hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), with large schools at the base of the sea mount. Schools range from between six to hundreds traveling in a clockwise direction around the seamount. As a seamount El Bajo is home to an abundance of sea life, mass schooling fish (amberjacks, tuna etc), octopus (O. hubbsorum) and Panamic green moray eel (Gymnothorax castaneus); a colony can be found in a small submarine canyon. Other visitors that frequent the seamount include; whale sharks and giant Pacific manta rays (Manta hamiltoni).