Another Dive Story

At our safety stop, a small curious silky shark swam very close, then swam down to examine the line tied to the surface marker buoy. It then rubbed its body on the line, swam back up to us, circled around several times, then dove down again to rub against the line. This continued for our […]

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Dancing Mantas at Socorro

Stephanie CiosekAs we hovered mid-water, we were approached by a large manta, as she (we later found out) swam past us, another slightly smaller manta came towards us. The first then swam back towards our group with the smaller following close behind. We watched as the circles became smaller, and the mantas got closer and […]

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Mesmerizing Encounter with Mantas

Punta Tosca at Socorro Island. The dive began with a mesmerizing encounter with a group of several massive oceanic mantas that circled us for a while, hovering over the group, before gracefully swimming away into the sunset. Later in the dive we saw a free swimming moray eel, unbothered by the daylight and seemingly on […]

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Socorro: Totally Unexpected

The diving life is a funny thing, so many options and places to go. By and large I am a lazy diver but I have an adventurous side as well. Nautalis has been an amazing experience, first dive of the trip we saw a manta, tiger shark and hammerhead all in the first 10 minutes […]

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Lot of Action in Socorro

On dive 1, we had dancing mantasOn dive 2, mantas cruising and the biggest lobster i-ve ever seen.On dive 3 a friendly black manta played with us.And on the 4th dive there were loads of schools of fish. You could tell it was hunting hour! Elaina, Seattle.

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Socorro: A Trip of a Lifetime

This has been a trip of a lifetime and such a unique experience that not many get to share. This is the only place in the world where I have seen multiple Hammerheads, Great Pacific Mantas, Siver Tip Sharks, Silkie Sharks and White Tip Sharks on every single dive. Not to forget to mention the […]

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