Traveling home across the brilliant blue water today has given us time to reflect on the unbelievable week of diving we have just had. From pods of dolphins to swarms of hammerheads, thousands of fish and bottomless sheer rock walls; diving with Nautilus at Socorro has been a dream come true.
Read MoreI had the pleasure of completing my 100th dive with the Nautilus Explorer crew on the last dive of the day. David did a fabulous job documenting the dive itself, where we saw huge tuna out hunting as the sun went down.
Read MoreThere are the giant manta rays who like to steal the show, the cheeky and utterly curious bottlenose dolphins and the silky sharks who will give you chills during the night snorkel.
Read MoreAll of a sudden, I turned around and saw the tiger shark right behind all of the divers. I got their attention and pointed just in time as it was still swimming towards us.
Read MoreThis dive site attracts the giant mantas that the Socorro Islands are best known for. The Boiler is usually a favorite for our last day of diving since it’s one of the last chances our guest will witness these acrobatic mantas in action.
Read MoreWe have a very happy group of divers onboard from Germany, USA, Spain and Mexico. Everyone is getting along very well and today we covered our dive safety briefing and a marine life presentation.
Read MoreWe saw about five or six hammerhead sharks very close and it was also my first time seeing silvertip sharks. The whole cleaning station part of the dive site is fantastic. Everything so far has been great – the food, the people and the boat.
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