This is my ninth trip on the Nautilus and my sixth in Alaska and/or BC. I can say without hesitation that today’s jellyfish dives top my personal list of all-time great dive experiences. Floating amidst thousands of moon jellies is the most beautiful and surreal thing I have ever done underwater, and knowing that fewer […]
Read MoreLocation: Secret location, Baranoff Island, southeast Alaska. Surely we should have got our fill of diving with jellies – or jellyfish as they are incorrectly referred to – I can just imagine rows of jellies standing up and shouting out that “we are not fish, we are jellies”!!!! – with 3 days of jdiving on […]
Read MoreMy 100th dive no better place then alaska ! exhilarating experience awesome invertebrate life with incredibly long “dooky” trails from the seacucumbers !!! – Anne Die Nautilus Explorer ist immer wieder eine Empfehlung! Nur mit diesem Schiff ist ein solcher anspruchsvoller Tauchtrip in Alaska ein echter Genuss und keine Anstrengung. Wir haben in den ersten […]
Read MoreThe crew is so friendly that if you’re not diving they will take you out on a private skiff ride and show you lions mane jelly fish and sea stars and you can have your very own sea otter. Alisan Today was an awesome day for non-divers – 3 skiff tours – otters, whales, sealions […]
Read MoreLocation: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska. Let’s see. Puffins. Transient orcas (killer whales). Humpback whales. Stellar sealions. Sea-otters. Bald eagles. Oyster catchers. Nesting cormorants with baby chicks. Recently discovered and still unnamed soft coral consisting of 50% of the biomass at some dive sites. This is an amazing place. And my description above doesn’t […]
Read MoreStellar Sealions are real big and real smelly! Andrew First dive was a little scary getting in and out of water – but the divemasters were a great help – the Sea Lions were awesome…I would do the Nautilus Explorer again in a heartbeat. Anne Wow, meine ersten Begegnungen mit Stellar-Seeloewen, 2-3 m gross und […]
Read MoreDive bombed by a stellar sealion. I was dive bombed by a bull stellar sealion while a female chewed on my fins pulling in opposite directions. I started the dive 5’1″ and ended 5’10”. Hahhahah. Yesterday I saw a sea otter playing with and eating an octopus.. Michele Hall I thought a sealion was […]
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