Welcome to Guadalupe Island! Situated in deep water off the continental shelf of North America, the history of Guadalupe Island is rich with Spanish and Portuguese explorers, pirates, gold and the Manila galleons, rapacious American and Russian sealers and fur traders. We love Guadalupe Island and hope that you will come to feel the same way. This volcanic island is estimated to be 8 million years old!!
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It looks very much like we may see record numbers of great white sharks this coming season at Guadalupe Island. Shark sightings off both California and the east coast of the United States are already crazy and record breaking. I was in Long Beach, California at the beginning of May, where TV stations were running […]
Read MoreHappy New Year to all of you Scuba stallions out there! Hope you all rang in the new year with your chosen ones. We have just started our first Socorro Islands trip of 2014, having just wrapped up a great first day of diving at San Benedicto. We departed Cabo San Lucas on the southern […]
Read MoreAlthough each and every trip is different to the Revillagigedo Islands they all start with our departure from the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula which stands as a buttress between the north Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortes. Heading generally south we begin our journey to San Benedicto which is the closest […]
Read MoreOn my break today I slipped into my wetsuit and clambered aboard the dive skiff along with Hostess Carmen. First Mate Shaun expertly drove us out to a kelp patch located along side San Martin, a small island a few hours off the coast of the Baja California. Only fishermen live on this small island […]
Read MoreThe white shark population at Guadalupe Island appears to be stable. We see the same sharks year after year (touch wood). There is good surveillance and enforcement by the Mexican authorities. Unfortunately the same is not always true for other parts of Baja California and we have seen disturbing photos of butchered white […]
Read MoreGrowing up in Atlantic Canada, in both Newfoundland and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, I was about as far from Baja California as you can get in North America. Yet for some reason I was always intrigued by the little strip of peninsula jutting down below California. Well, it looked little on the globes and in […]
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