We awoke to a beautiful morning on the water today, the barest hint of a breeze and a long, slow, rolling swell out of the south. Currently north by west of Clipperton Atoll, approximately 3500m (11600ft) of water under the hull and it’s time for a swim. Main engines on the Nautilus Explorer are off, […]
Read MoreSchooling hammerhead sharks ho hum right?? Well not exactly. While we have been seeing a lot of hammerheads around Socorro and San Benedicto Islands, I always find it exciting to see these quiet shy critters. And I find the science behind their behaviour quite fascinating with great thanks to Dr. Peter Klimley at the University […]
Read MoreAlthough it’s a relatively rare occurrence, great white sharks have occasionally been sighted near the Hawaiian Islands throughout history (and even prehistory — teeth from white sharks have been found in artifacts from ancient islanders). The small number of sightings and lack of young sharks seen, however, suggests that there isn’t one group of […]
Read MoreToday participated in two dives at Socorro Island. The first was Cabo Pierce, and we went to 90 feet. Due to the current we all went down on a line to the anchor at 65 feet heading east we went to an area of rock formations to watch for sharks. Hammerhead sharks were seen in […]
Read More1945hrs We’ve just departed Socorro Island for our annual Clipperton expedition. We spent the last two days diving at San Benedicto and Socorro of the Revillagigedo chain of islands. The diving was a little disappointing with minimal big animal activity. A few hammerhead sharks here and there and one giant manta for a couple lucky […]
Read MoreWe are on our way to Clipperton Atoll – Isle de Passion – after spending 1 day at San benedicto and 1 day at Socorro, we will be there in a couple of days San Benedicto fun, 2 dives at the canyon and 1 at the boiler, we had a Dusky shark at the canyon […]
Read Morepicture taken by Dirk Czerwek (sorry its small, it was sent from the boat and can only be sent my minimizing the size of picture.) I could hear the whales singing so loud that i could feel their singing bouncing on my chest. It felt like my whole body was trembling and vibrating […]
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