Nautilus Explorer back in the water and ready for her first charter of our white shark season!

Wow.  Awesome teamwork saw our newly reshined sparkling Nautilus Explorer back in the water and ready for another season of diving.   Annual refit is always a lot of hard work and long days in the heat of Mexico.  It’s the time of year that new staff join the ship and really show us what they […]

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Refit 2014 is drawing to a close and the Nautilus Explorer is looking beautiful!

Our beautiful Nautilus Explorer is getting ready to look shiny and sparkly with glistening new paint job about to be applied.    We have been very particular about our paint processes since the day that the very first sheet of steel went through wheel abrading and priming when the ship was nothing more than a detailed […]

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These used to be staterooms!

I suspect that our guests would be surprised to know how far we go during  a 3 week refit.  Pictured are the guest staterooms on the port side.   Everything has been stripped down to bare steel and coated with epoxy.   Note the steel studs that form the backbone of the fire prevention system on the […]

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The Nautilus Explorer goes to the dentist???

  Refit is always a very satisfying time.   It is a proud and awesome feeling when the Nautilus Explorer emerges from refit looking beautiful with shiny new paint.     In this pic, our crew are hard at work getting the exterior of  the ship ready for painting.   The image reminded me of a dentist scraping away […]

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I don't understand what's going on. This is very strange.

The story so far. Some dude came over to me and handed me a keyboard and told me to type. He said he’d tell me what i’m typing, but as far as I can tell he isn’t telling me anything. Actually this is providing me with great entertainment so I think this is really quite […]

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