Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Divemaster Buzz at the laptop here as Captain Mike is still on time off.. We are having a superb trip with lots of excellent white shark sightings and loads of interesting behaviour. It’s funny how variable the diving can be as our last trip was the quietest […]
Read MoreLocation: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Our new submersible shark cage is wildly successful beyond anything that I had imagined. The last couple of days in Shark Bay have been tough with 35 – 40 knot winds and a 3 foot swell rolling into the anchorage. The biggest difficulty is that the current […]
Read MoreLocation: At sea, half-way between Ensenada and Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Well, we loaded our guests last night in Ensenada after a 90 minute transfer from our hospitality suite in San Diego by luxury coach and got underway for a fairly easy transit to Guadalupe Island. The seas were flat calm until 0600 (6 […]
Read MoreLocation: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Dive day 2 of this trip and it was a doozie. The Mexican navy frigate is still anchored on site in Shark Bay and we are getting to know the crew. They are good guys and very interested in the experience of diving with great white sharks. […]
Read MoreLocation: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico It’s great to be back at the helm of the Nautilus Explorer. We had an easy crossing from Ensenada in 4 to 6 foot seas with light winds. I had one heckuva surprise when I arrived at our anchorage to find a 200 foot Mexican navy frigate […]
Read MoreFreak conditions for sure with a large residual wave train travelling down the coast and colliding with the strongest sustained Santa Ana winds in Baja California that anyone can remember. It’s been blowing 35 – 40 knots in Ensenada for two days now with very reduced visibility in a miserable dust storm. Everyone in town is wearing dust masks, the power is flickering on and off and everything – EVERYTHING – on the Nautilus is covered with a thick layer of gritty dust. It hurts your eyes just to walk upwind.
Read MoreThe divemastesr soon found their own form however, snatching the tuna baits away from a large female with a severely broken tail who seemed to be working in tandem with “Chica,” who is a regular visitor when we are in Guadalupe. “Broken Tails” showed some very interesting behaviour – flicking her caudal fin against one of the transom cages and then later rubbing up against the same cage.
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