The Dive I Missed was the one where Everyone Saw Mantas, Sharks, Hammerheads. At Least I Saw a Whale on the Surface Swimming Around. Guest and Divemaster Blog. 09 DEC 2010

Diver Pauly from Chicago.  This is my second trip aboard the Nautilus Explorer.  The staff is exceptional as usual.  We’ve done two days of diving so far and can’t complain at all. Saw a pod of Sperm Whales just out of Cabo San Lucas and a pod of bottle nose Dolphins shortly later.  When we […]

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We miss Captain Mike bringing us drinks in the hot tub but is nice to hang our wet gear in the salon – Guest blog- Jan. 18 2010

My name is Martha and I am learning so very much about good diving skills here at Roca Partida and the Nautilus Explorer is meeting my expectations as a top notch live-aboard. Today is 18 January 2010. Cheers! Cindy The diving is fantastic, the best I have experienced but the people are what make it fun. […]

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Hammerhead sharks, dolphins playing and giant mantas circling

Location: Punta Tosca, Socorro Island, Revillagigedo’s, Baja California After the navy inspection we headed out to Punta Tosca. I went down to check out the dive site and had immediately two giant mantas coming in towards me. Going down the first scuba dive they where there. And divers started to do their filming and shooting […]

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Manta lovin'

Location: Isla Socorro, Baja California South, Mexico After a very sharky two days at Roca Partida we headed the 65 miles east to the largest of the three islands that we dive here, Socorro, in search of some Manta lovin’! It was a very comfortable overnight transit and our first stop was the navy base […]

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Filming giant mantas at San Benedicto Island

Location: The Canyon and the Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Our last Socorro Island trip for the season  is a bit different than normal; we have a film team that only are focused on giant mantas and filming them just at the brightest hours of the day in their natural light and the […]

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Sharks, sharks and oh yeah, giant mantas as well

Location: The Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Baja California We had bigger seas and strong wind today so the divesite  Boiler that we did in the beginning of the trip was not to think about, but the  Canyon was calm. We descended to the cleaning station, the divers in the water acted perfectly […]

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Guest Blog 4-07-09

04.07.09 Kirk OK Sten It’s Blog time. To Start, I’ll say that this is without question the most elegant dive ship I have been aboard. The Vessel was obviously carefully designed and appointed.The crew all friendly and professional.The food tasty and well prepared. I’ll copy some notes from my log later. In Cabo 04.05.09 After […]

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