Category: Socorro

My whole body was tingling during our Night Dives!

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-15
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By Nautilus Staff on February 15th, 2015 in Crew, Socorro

The thing I love about night dives is how your senses hearing and feelign are heightened as the sense of sight is restricted. On tonight’s night dive at El Aquario, the water was filled with whale songs coming from every direction. For 8 minutes the wails and crys were so loud you could feel the vibrations in your chest. […]

Snorkelling with humpback whales before lunch

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-14
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By Nautilus Staff on February 14th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

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 […]

Awesome…in the true sense of the word

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-13
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By Nautilus Staff on February 13th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

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 […]

These stunning, giant creatures have the same brain to body ratio as we do, 5:1, and it makes me wonder if they are able to recognize us as well.

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-04
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By Nautilus Staff on February 4th, 2015 in Crew, Socorro

One of the things I love most about diving again and again at Socorro is being able to develop a connection with the incredible giant manta rays. With every dive my ability to recognize individual mantas is getting better and better. These stunning, giant creatures have the same brain to body ratio as we do, […]

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

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-03
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By Nautilus Staff on February 3rd, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

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 […]

THE DAY AFTER….. why are there so many humpback whale skeletons at Roca Partida??

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-02
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By Nautilus Staff on February 2nd, 2015 in Crew, Socorro

Weather picked up, winds decided to blow and we were off to start our second day at Roca Partida. A we launched the skiffs at 0630, a large splash towards Roca caught my eye. Humpback whales again! After yesterdays orca attack on the poor calf, I assumed the whales would have departed the rock to […]

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

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-02-01
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By Nautilus Staff on February 1st, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

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 […]