Followed by humpback family the whole day!!

  Question: How was your day? Today was one of this very special days not only of being at Roca Partida, direct arriving at the Rock. We are getting visited by a mother and calf and an escort direct coming up to the Nautilus Explorer. We cancel the first day direct and start to snorkel […]

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Christmas in Mexico

Christmas in Mexico is a festive time!! After a small break, the Nautilus Explorer and crew are back on it! The old seafaring tale of a ship never being happy unless she is moving through the water holds to be true, and with that in mind we cast off the lines and sailed out of […]

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Dolphins, Sharks, Mantas and That Was Just the First Dive

On the trip out to the last dive guests were treated to the sight of a manta feeding on the surface at the dive site. We observed two separate incidents of interesting shark behaviour during the day.

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Beautiful Dive Among the Coral Heads on a Lava Flow Looking for Turtles

One group of guests came especially prepared for New Year’s with everyone bringing dinner gowns to wear underwater.

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Giant Manta Ray Rope

Over the last 4 years of operating around Socorro/Revillagigedos Islands, we have had the occasional problem with giant mantas swimming into descent, ascent and anchor lines. This is obviously upsetting to us so today I implemented my idea for a “manta rope.” We took a length of 3/4″ bright yellow 3 strand anchor line and spliced short chunks of horizontal streamers of yellow, blue and green rope into it. The idea being that the descent/ascent/anchor line will be so brightly coloured and “big” that the mantas can’t help but see it. In a perfect world, our highly intelligent manta friends may even be so fascinated by the manta rope that they will want to swoop, loop and fly around “their” rope. Fingers crossed.

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Medical Evacuation with Great Thanks to the Mexican Navy

On a different note, our great thanks to the Mexican Navy for their help today. One of our guests started feeling ill last night and was diagnosed this morning with acute pancreatitis – which is extremely serious and potentially life threatening. A number of evacuation options were considered including a chopper medivac flight right to the boat, which is possible because the Nautilus Explorer has a rated helicopter deck. No options are easy or simple on a small ship anchored in the lee of a volcano, 250 miles out into the open Pacific ocean.

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