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Sardine Run and Bryde Whale at Mag Bay

  • Post author By Gregory
  • Categories Crew, Dive Report, Magdalena Bay
  • Post date 2023-10-18
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By Gregory on October 18th, 2023 in Crew, Dive Report, Magdalena Bay

Today was an amazing day! It was the first day I had ever seen a whale eating a baitball!!My team and I were right about to jump into the bait ball when the captain said one! two! And when he was about to say three and we were suspended in the air we saw the […]

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  • Tags bait ball, magdalena bay, mexico, sardine run, whales

I Never Imagined How Beautiful Marlins Could Be When They Are Seen on the Hunt

  • Post author By Nautilus Guests
  • Categories Baja West Coast Reviews
  • Post date 2021-11-29
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By Nautilus Guests on November 29th, 2021 in Baja West Coast Reviews

This trip has been a unique and amazing experience. Seeking out bait balls is a mission-driven way to snorkel, with outstanding rewards. I never imagined how beautiful Marlins could be when they are seen on the hunt underwater. Their energy, grace and colors are a sight to behold when they are in their natural habitat […]

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  • Tags bait ball, magdalena bay, striped marlin

Captain’s Noon Report- Nautilus Explorer – 2020-10-10

  • Post author By Noon Reports
  • Categories Noon Reports
  • Post date 2020-10-10
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By Noon Reports on October 10th, 2020 in Noon Reports

Explorer – Today the results of our search paid off with sightings of a bait ball

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  • Tags bait ball, Baja California, diving, magdalena bay, marlin, sardine run
amazing photo of a diver swimming along a giant manta with a huge whale shark in the background

I thought I was filming “Blue Planet”

  • Post author By Nautilus Guests
  • Categories Guests, Socorro
  • Post date 2018-06-03
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By Nautilus Guests on June 3rd, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

The diving just keeps on getting better on this trip. Just dove Roca Partida. The best way to describe it was I thought I was filming BBC’s Blue Planet. Giant and I mean HUGE tuna, rivers of jacks, bait balls forming, Galapagos sharks and white tips, tuna and jacks all interacting. Schools of white tips cruising around. Fantastic visibility, it was crazy good from start to finish!

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  • Tags bait ball, Galapagos Shark, giant manta, mobula ray, Roca Partida, whitetip shark, yellowfin tuna
manta ray mid flip over a stream of bubbles

A chevron manta WOW moment!

  • Post author By Nautilus Guests
  • Categories Crew, Guests, Socorro
  • Post date 2018-05-25
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By Nautilus Guests on May 25th, 2018 in Crew, Guests, Socorro

Our big WOW MOMENT was swimming with a 12ft Chevron Manta, taking pictures and being in complete awe of her(?) when suddenly a whale shark appeared out of the blue. A juvenile everyone said. We all got a chuckle of how the manta reacted when the whale shark came in.

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  • Tags bait ball, black manta, bottlenose dolphin, chevron manta, Galapagos Shark, Hammerhead shark, Moray Eel, Nautilus Belle Amie, San Benedicto, silvertip shark, The Boiler, Whale Shark, whitetip shark, yellowfin tuna
giant manta dwarfs diver observing from below

Friendly chevron manta host!

  • Post author By Nautilus Guests
  • Categories Guests, Socorro
  • Post date 2018-05-23
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By Nautilus Guests on May 23rd, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

Our diving started by being greeted by a friendly chevron manta, who joined us in our descent to the roaming Galapagos sharks. We drifted through bait balls while observing the whitetip sharks settling on their shelves for a day of rest. After spotting eels and distant hammerhead sharks we were again joined by our manta host.

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  • Tags bait ball, chevron manta, Galapagos Shark, Hammerhead shark, Nautilus Belle Amie, Nautilus Undersea, Roca Partida, whitetip shark
divers in a skiff, the nautilus belle amie, and roca partida in the distance

A Great Visitor at Roca Partida

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Categories Crew, Socorro
  • Post date 2018-04-21
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By Nautilus Crew on April 21st, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

There was a school of hammerhead sharks in 80 ft of depth, and bait balls of skip jacks. To finish our day at Roca we had a great visitor: a whale shark! It was not a big one, but still impressive. Socorro did not let us down!

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  • Tags bait ball, black manta, bottlenose dolphin, cabo pearce, chevron manta, Galapagos Shark, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, silky shark, The Boiler, The Canyon

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