Category: Socorro

Words do not, and can not describe!

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-28
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By Nautilus Staff on May 28th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

The trip was booked almost a year previous and the anticipation has been overwhelming waiting for the 13th of May to Arrive. I cannot even begin to express the amount of gratitude that I have for each and every member of the Nautilus Team. I am an Avid diver who has the pleasure of diving […]

Formalized storm credit policy

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Categories Captain Mike, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-28
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By Nautilus Staff on May 28th, 2015 in Captain Mike, Socorro

I’ll be candid. We had some mechanical problems on our beautiful new Nautilus Belle Amie when she was launched. Doesn’t matter how hard we tried. Doesn’t matter that our dispatch reliability record over the last 25 years is almost perfect. Some new Caterpillar machinery broke down unexpectedly and messed up our guests. Many lessons learned […]

I know the ocean's not a zoo, but it totally seems like one with the boat spotting mantas on every dive

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-27
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By Nautilus Staff on May 27th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

We asked our guests what they thought of their diving, and got a wide range of awesome, funny and weird encounters! Took a break from the cervezas long enough to get wet. Happily rewarded almost immediately upon descent by a sailfish. Hard to say how large it was as it was at a distance, but […]

They scared the crap out of me!

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Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-27
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By Nautilus Staff on May 27th, 2015 in Crew, Socorro

I dropped into the water between dives three and four. I descended to 35 meters in search of hammers, but to no avail. I swam out into the blue and was blown away by the fact that i could see the bottom as if it was 10 meters away. After several minutes of sharkless blue […]

The biggest pod I've seen

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Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-26
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By Nautilus Staff on May 26th, 2015 in Crew, Socorro

Dolphin frenzy at the Boiler this morning. After splashing in at 0800 with the sun rising around San Ben we dropped in on the usual manta residents of the Boiler. With 5 soaring in and clear 90 foot vis things were going the usual way that I have been used to until the spot light […]

Roca Partida with boobies, whale shark, silver tips and galapagos sharks!

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-17
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By Nautilus Staff on May 17th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

Roca Portida Today we arrived at the volcanic island that peaks its head out of the ocean surface and is home to many boobies. The island looks like its snowed, but it’s the boobies toilet break. Before we dived in we had a wonderful whale shark show up on the stern surface which was nice […]

Dancing with Whale Sharks and Playing with Giant Mantas

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Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2015-05-12
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By Nautilus Staff on May 12th, 2015 in Guests, Socorro

Day 1: Canyon and boiler Today was day 1 of diving, with check out dive completed, we drop into the boiler. To say we were tantalised before we even got into the water is an understatement. Just as we were getting ready to enter the water, we were treated with a whale shark at the […]