Snorkelling with humpback whales before lunch

Roca Partida is just a beautiful divesite! When you’re lucky you can see almost everything that a divers heart for big fish is looking for! Until now we haven’t had the luck to see humpback whales underwater…one of my dreams…but no problem…there’s another chance during whale watching and snorkeling! The excellent crew of the Nautilus […]

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Awesome…in the true sense of the word

Roca Partida – Rocks? Well folks, I don’t blog and vehemently abhor BS, but, I owe Shaun (our Captain), he took me humpback whale watching/snorkeling and we saw many humpbacks, but all in transit and moving too fast. Then a slower whale turned up, we slipped in the water and the whale dived, so I got back in the […]

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People have been complaining that they are not seeing anything, but I think- what are you thinking man?

You know what I love about this Socorro island group.  The animals.  Especially the humpback whales and mantas.  The animals here are special cause normally they dont linger.  But here they do.  They are excidingly curious, they just keep coming around.   I am also impressed with the amount of giant mantas, the volume of them.  We […]

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"We witnessed the beauty, tenderness and serenity of nature".

Today, January 29, 2015, will have a very special place in my dive log. This is my 8th trip to the Revillagigedos Islands aboard the Nautilus Explorer. Today, we dived Roca Partida for our first dive this morning. As I back-rolled off the skiff, I managed to pull the cover off my wide angle port […]

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All i could think of was the look in the mother humpback's eyes as she circled frantically looking for her calf

Gustavo Verzoni from Brazil: I was so excited for today.  It is such a dream to see whales, and to see them in good viz.  today we had a perfect situation, we were full of air, the viz was good and we saw a humpback moother, her calf and an escort.  The calf was going […]

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"We just saw dolphins having sex but that wasn't the highlight of the day"

  Carol Futter from the UK: I knew that today was going to be a good day.  As our boat went out to the dive site, we saw humpback on the surface.  Iw as keen to get right in.  As soon as I dropped in, something happened with my octopus and I began to lose […]

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Swimming with the mantas, playing with dolphins, listening to the sounds of the whales beneath the waves, spotting hammerheads – just another day on the Nautilus Explorer!

Trip 512, one to remember! Here we are in Mexico enjoying the sun, the ocean and the company.  I have had the pleasure of meeting so many new divers as well as seeing some favorites from the Swell!! The diving has been unbelievable!  Some favorites to mention would be a whale sharks, giant  mantas, schools […]

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