We dove the same site 2 hours later and there was virtually no current, beautiful blue water and a couple of curious mantas circling around as well as 4 bottlenose dolphins pressing their noses on the descent line acting as if they were puppies resting their chins on the edge of a table. The dolphins were squeaking away and laying their heads sideways to look at the divers. Totally amazing.
Read MoreOur friends on the Solmar V frequent a site there called the Aquarium. It is nice but not too sharky, which makes it perfect for a night dive. We arrived there at 8 pm and launched our divers shortly afterwards. You can imagine my sigh of relief when they reported back that it was a great night dive with nice visibility and lots of critters including dense nests of Socorro lobsters. Phew!
Read MoreA couple of our guests are here to free dive instead of scuba dive which is always good fun. One of them has been free diving for over 30 years and had the experience of his career today when he came face to face with a tiger shark. He was on the surface resting between dives when a huge tiger shark came right in towards him at The Canyon dive site on San Benedicto Island. He says that the tiger shark was huge and just kept coming in closer and closer until it was only 2 feet away. Yes, 2 feet away!
Read MoreWhat a beautiful night. We are anchored in the lee of San Benedicto Island, tucked in beside the moonlit volcano. It is spectacular. I often get asked what the open ocean crossing is like between Cabo San Lucas and Socorro Island…
Read MoreWell, it’s a wrap for this year with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island. We are en route from Guadalupe to Ensenada, Mexico to disembark our last shark trip before steaming south to Cabo San Lucas and the first of our Sea of Cortez trips…
Read MoreThe diving is super hot this morning, with great white sharks continuously around the back of the Nautilus Explorer. The last day and a half were quiet with sporadic sightings (although our first afternoon was good), but the winds have died down and the white sharks are back with a vengeance.
Read MoreHad a flurry of white shark activity first thing this morning but it’s quiet now. I’m hoping for the usual dinner hour flurry with white sharks showing up “on their way home” between 1630 and 1830. One of this morning’s white sharks showed really interesting adaptive behaviour when it went for the shark wrangler’s line rather than the tuna bait – as we snapped the tuna out of the path of the white shark, the bait went straight into its mouth! Clever huh!?
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