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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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, […]
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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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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 […]
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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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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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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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