One Can Never Have Enough of the Elegant and Graceful Mantas

The dive sites are incredible and the encounters with the marine life are absolutely stunning! One can never have enough of the elegant and graceful mantas as well as gazing at sleepy sharks huddled in packs along the rock walls.

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I Have Never Felt So Comfortable Diving in Challenging Conditions

On our ‘check dive’ we saw hammerheads, dolphins, and a manta and it only got better from there. Particular highlights were barrel rolling mantas, hammerheads on nearly every dive, amazing topography, enormous tuna, and such a healthy population of sharks. We will be back!

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The Nautilus Crew was Incredibly Warm and Helpful

This trip was a trip of a lifetime!!! We saw an endless supply of sharks, mantas, breaching whales, and even several dolphins. I’ve been around whales for quite some time, but I have never seen a breach, and we saw a mother-calf breach multiple times between our dives and even cruised by our skiff after one of the dive groups saw them underwater.

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This Was the Coolest I’ve Ever Seen in Roca Partida!

Giant Chevron mantas came to visit several times. At one time, we watched three mantas circling in front of us! The surge took us up and down between five and ten feet. The same currents that brought in so much life stirred up the warm and cooler waters near the corner creating a chilly thermocline at the cleaning station. Three or four giant yellowfin tuna zoomed by above. Descending to about 105 to 110 feet to take pics of the white tips cuddling together on a shelf on the wall, they quickly scurried away.

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