Today was our first full day aboard the Nautilus Belle Amie sailing towards Guadalupe island. We did our safety briefings for above and below the water and had a great presentation about great white sharks delivered by Casey, a fellow Divemaster. Apart from getting to know our guests who all hail from the U.S.A and […]
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Seriously…you know it’s a good one when people are skipping lunch and only getting out of the cages when their camera batteries die or their fingers are too cold to press their shutter button anymore. We started the day with a couple rounds of submersible cage dives, with great views of several different sharks. The […]
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Simply amazing, that is how to describe Guadalupe’s great white sharks. From cruising through the water with the utmost grace to attacking a hunk of tuna at nearly full speed, these animals will never fail to impress. The island itself is a beautiful thing as well, with incredible cliff faces and clouds rolling down the […]
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DAY I: A very good day…The first divers started diving at 0700 and the first shark showed up at 0710. My first deep cage dive was at 0800 and I had 6 different sharks. I ended up making 8 dives today and had 4-8 sharks on each dive. Water temp around 70 degrees F. Visibility […]
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Since 1975 (I am 50 in 2 weeks time) when I saw Jaws in Nottingham, England at the cinema, I have wanted to see a Great White Shark in the wild. So my friends booked this trip on Nautilus. Sam gave me and my friends a one-on-one introduction / briefing in the early morning to […]
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Today was our 2nd day at Guadalupe, great day, we did see about 8 different individual great white sharks, as well as 7 dolphins and 2 turtles. The topography of the island is beautiful with clouds being born and cascading down the dramatic cliff faces into the sea, it is incredible weather with very calm […]
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It’s 6:30 in the morning and the cages are ready to go, I am having a coffee on the back deck, and I think how lucky we are to be in this place. My first round in the submersible cages starts at 8 am, we hit the water and we go down…first minutes with some […]
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