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Great white "Legend." Photo by divemaster Mirko

Great Sharky Days at Guadalupe!

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Post date 2018-08-21
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By Nautilus Crew on August 21st, 2018 in Crew, Guadalupe

On multiple occasions, I could see three, four, five and on a couple of occasions six sharks in a single view!

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  • Tags Biosphere Reserve, great white sharks, great whites, hunter, kenric, legend, mickey, paul walker, sadface, shark diving, shark wrangling, sharks, slash fin

Please help us make a difference at Socorro Island and stop illegal fishing.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2013-09-26
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By Nautilus Staff on September 26th, 2013 in Archive

Este sábado 7 de septiembre la petición sobrepasó las 2,000 firmas. ¡ Solamente durante el viernes, más de 200 de ustedes la firmaron ! Es por esto que se esperará algunos días más para entregarla impresa con todas las firmas y comentarios. / Last Saturday September the 7th the petition surpassed 2,000 signatures. Only during Friday […]

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  • Tags Archipelago Revillagigedo, Biosphere Reserve, illegal fishing, Navy Base, petition

Shark Fin Soup??

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-12-16
By Nautilus Staff on December 16th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Since the discovery of an illegal fishing net draped across a reef at southwest Benedicto wall, there has been some heated and emotional discussions onboard the Nautilus Explorer regarding the abhorrent practice of shark finning, shark fin soup and the whole issue of illegal fishing – especially in a protected biosphere reserve such as Socorro/Revillagigedos. These are huge issues and there are no easy answers.

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  • Tags Biosphere Reserve, el canyon, Giant Mantas, illegal fishing, lobster, Mantas, ocean conservation, San Benedicto, shark fin soup, shark finning, socorro lobster, the aquarium, The Boiler

A Fishing Net and a Dying Shark at San Benedicto Island

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-12-09
By Nautilus Staff on December 9th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

So it was a great surprise and very upsetting to find an 800-metre fishing net draped across the southwest San Benedicto wall. Some bloody fishermen must have snuck in here, knowing that the best fishing is, of course, in Biosphere Reserve. Our divers discovered the carcasses of a couple of hammerhead sharks, a dead dolphin, a turtle and most disturbing of all – a barely alive silky shark caught up in the net and still twitching and spasming. One of our guests asked me what the green stuff was that was streaming out of the silky shark’s mouth – which was of course blood which appears to be green rather than red underwater. Some divers tried to free the shark but to no avail.

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  • Tags Biosphere Reserve, dolphin, el canyon, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, illegal fishing, leather sea bass, lumpy, San Benedicto, silky shark, the aquarium, turtle

Illegal tuna clipper at Roca Partida??

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-04-08
By Nautilus Staff on April 8th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

We checked the radar and discovered a large (225ft??) target doing tight circles off Roca Partida and clearly in the Biosphere Reserve. I suspected that it was a large tuna clipper and that they were watching us through their binoculars because as soon as we launched one of our inflatables, all the lights on the other ship blinked off. The illegal boat then started jinking around at high speed (15 knots plus), apparently doing it’s best to stay away from the inflatable.

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  • Tags Biosphere Reserve, illegal fishing, jacks, open ocean crossing, Roca Partida, sharks, tuna clipper
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