Another successful trip! I’m writing this by the pale, ghostly light of a full moon shining over a flat calm sea on a warm night near San Jose del Cabo, driving the Nautilus Explorer back to port after a 12 day trip to the Socorro Islands and the Sea of Cortez. What a beautiful night. […]
Read MoreThis is my last trip of the season to Socorro Island, with a group of German divers and a mexican researcher Laura Escoboza which has a Master degree in Marine Biodiversity and conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Ca, USA. I made a couple of dives with her and she share her observation she […]
Read MoreWhite Shark Offshore Habitat: A Behavioral and Environmental Characterization of the Eastern Pacific Shared Offshore Foraging Area By: Nicole Nasby-Lucas1*, Heidi Dewar2, Chi H. Lam3, Kenneth J. Goldman4, Michael L. Domeier1 1 Marine Conservation Science Institute, Fallbrook, California, United States of America, 2 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California, United […]
Read MoreThe sea state was actually not too bad when I woke up this morning at 0530 for my turn on watch. A fairly long 6-10′ from the NW which we were riding over quite smoothly. I must have done something to upset the ocean G*ds though because around 20 minutes after I stepped onto the […]
Read MoreMore great diving at the one of a kind Roca Partida today, despite the wind and choppy sea state. For those of you not familiar with Roca Partida, from the surface it is nothing more than a rock, roughly 200 ft long by 100 ft high, jutting up in mid-pacific, hundreds of miles from any […]
Read MoreLying on your back on a cushion of water staring up at towering giant kelp stretching to the surface where leafy limbs reach out to touch each other and filter sun light down into the blue. And like a spot light in a theatre the light falls on curious faces peering from behind the kelp. Harbour seals, […]
Read MoreWe started of with our first day in San Benedicto after a smooth ride down from cabo San Lucas. canyon did not get so much so we moved over to the Boiler and had both better vizibility and one big black manta that got interest of us , but went off after an 10 min. […]
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