Tag: black manta

Nautilus Under Sea Guests Blogs

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2018-02-20
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By Nautilus Staff on February 20th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

I did three nitrox fun dives, full of life, octopuses, hammerheads, black mantas, mantas, bluefin trevallies, jacks, etc., just thought after the third dive when I had the opportunity to share with the manta my own personal moment, I decide to not to do the third one, but the rest of the team did it. […]

Tags black manta, cabo pearce, dolphin, el canyon, Hammerhead shark, Nautilus Luxury Liveaboards, Octopus, San Benedicto, silky shark, socorro island

Where rare manta interactions become common occurrence

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2018-02-05
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By Nautilus Staff on February 5th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

Wow. Just… Wow. It’s been a long time coming to get to this point in my life, career and journey of exploring new places, countries, the world and the ocean. Out of all the places that I have been so far, which have been many, the Archipelago Revillagigedo has been, and will continue to be, […]

Tags Archipelago Revillagigedo, black manta, chevron manta, dolphin, Galapagos Shark, giant oceanic manta ray, Nautilus Belle Amie, Tiger Shark, whitetip shark

Dive 4: Return of Gertrude

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2018-01-04
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By Nautilus Staff on January 4th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

And what a start to the day…13 dolphins swam close by to say “Welcome to Socorro”. Dive two…the meeting with “Gertrude”, a very large Manta ray. A fellow team member decided her name would be Gertrude. For 25 minutes, this friendly giant stayed and played. What an incredible first encounter. Thanks Pato for finding her […]

Tags black manta, cabo pearce, chevron manta, dolphin, Galapagos Shark, giant manta ray, Hammerhead shark, Moray Eel, silky shark, silvertip shark, whitetip shark

Scuba diving with manta rays, Baja California

Mantas, dolphins, flounders, Oh My!

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2017-12-19
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By Nautilus Staff on December 19th, 2017 in Guests, Socorro

Mantas and dolphins and flounders OH my! Both Black & Chevron mantas and dolphins entertained us for the first 2 dives. The more bubbles the better for the mantas! The more twists/turns the better for the dolphins. Not sure what the flounders enjoyed the most. The 4th dive ended with a huge school of jacks […]

Tags black manta, chevron manta, dolphin, flounder, Giant Mantas

Combo trip to the sharks and mantas

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2017-12-13
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By Nautilus Staff on December 13th, 2017 in Crew, Socorro

This is our last day of diving on our combo trip. Great white shark cage diving at Guadalupe island, and Socorro island. It could not get better than today. Starting at the Canyon at San Benedicto, we got to the cleaning station at 80ft where we spotted a hammerhead shark! Then I decided to go […]

Tags black manta, chevron manta, dolphins, Giant Mantas, Hammerhead shark, San Benedicto, whale sharks

The Thrill and The Calm

By Nautilus Staff on July 4th, 2017 in Guests, Socorro

As we swam into the deep blue surrounding the strange outcrop called La Roca Partida, I was filled with a strange combination of thrill and calm. You know, the calm you feel as the water gently rushes past, and the sound of your breath as the bubbles escape up towards the surface. The faint crackling […]

Tags black manta, Hammerhead shark, lobster, Roca Partida, whitetip reef shark

Giant manta ray attacked by a silky shark

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro
Post date 2007-04-05

By Nautilus Staff on April 5th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Anyways, when a large black manta came in towards our divers, the silky took off towards the manta and hit it really hard in the gill area. Really hard! The giant manta took off and that was the last that anyone saw of it. It’s all very interesting as we’ve always wondered why sharks don’t attack the mantas (it is very rare to see bite marks on a manta). I guess they do!!