Tiger shark 2 feet away at San Benedicto Island.

By on February 2nd, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

A couple of our guests are here to free dive instead of scuba dive which is always good fun. One of them has been free diving for over 30 years and had the experience of his career today when he came face to face with a tiger shark. He was on the surface resting between dives when a huge tiger shark came right in towards him at The Canyon dive site on San Benedicto Island. He says that the tiger shark was huge and just kept coming in closer and closer until it was only 2 feet away. Yes, 2 feet away!

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What the crossing is like between Cabo San Lucas and San Benedicto Island

By on February 1st, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

What a beautiful night. We are anchored in the lee of San Benedicto Island, tucked in beside the moonlit volcano. It is spectacular. I often get asked what the open ocean crossing is like between Cabo San Lucas and Socorro Island…

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It’s a wrap for this year with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island

By on October 17th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

Well, it’s a wrap for this year with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island. We are en route from Guadalupe to Ensenada, Mexico to disembark our last shark trip before steaming south to Cabo San Lucas and the first of our Sea of Cortez trips…

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Super hot diving this morning with great white sharks

By on October 16th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

The diving is super hot this morning, with great white sharks continuously around the back of the Nautilus Explorer. The last day and a half were quiet with sporadic sightings (although our first afternoon was good), but the winds have died down and the white sharks are back with a vengeance.

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A flurry of white shark activity

By on October 14th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

Had a flurry of white shark activity first thing this morning but it’s quiet now. I’m hoping for the usual dinner hour flurry with white sharks showing up “on their way home” between 1630 and 1830. One of this morning’s white sharks showed really interesting adaptive behaviour when it went for the shark wrangler’s line rather than the tuna bait – as we snapped the tuna out of the path of the white shark, the bait went straight into its mouth! Clever huh!?

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Boarded the last of our 2006 great white shark expeditions

By on October 13th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

We boarded the last of our 2006 great white shark expeditions last night and I am anticipating a 19 hour run to Guadalupe in a moderate sea. The skies are clear today and I am hoping that I might see the green flash at sunset.

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Fantastic conditions today enroute from Guadalupe

By on October 12th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

We just finished drifting with a loose pod of blue whales off Ensenada. I’m pretty sure that one of them came over to check us out – there we were drifting along with the engines out of gear when an enormous one (and these guys really are ENORMOUS) surfaced and blew 50ft off the side of the boat. He surprised the heck out of all of us. It was great!!

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