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Spring Diving in the Sea of Cortez

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2007-03-30

By Nautilus Staff on March 30th, 2007 in Archive, Sea of Cortez

We had a moderately rough crossing from Isla San Franciscito to Los Islotes (close to Espirito Santo) but were rewarded with an amazing sighting of a baby blue whale. At Los Islotes, we surprised some underwater harvesters fishing illegally. Unfortunately, they took off before we could get a good picture of them. Our divers had a couple of great dives and saw lots of neat stuff including California sea lion pups who came over to play with the divers.

Tags baby blue whale, baitfish, blue whales, california sea lions, illegal fishing, Los Islotes, mangrove swamp, mobula rays, sea lions, seahorse

Fantastic conditions today enroute from Guadalupe

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2006-10-12

By Nautilus Staff on October 12th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

We just finished drifting with a loose pod of blue whales off Ensenada. I’m pretty sure that one of them came over to check us out – there we were drifting along with the engines out of gear when an enormous one (and these guys really are ENORMOUS) surfaced and blew 50ft off the side of the boat. He surprised the heck out of all of us. It was great!!

Tags Backscatter, blue whales, cage diving, Ensenada, Great White Shark, Guadalupe Island, luxury liveaboard, mexico, Nautilus Explorer, scuba

Saw 3 blue whales on our way to Ensenada!

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2006-09-22

By Nautilus Staff on September 22nd, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

We saw 3 blue whales an hour ago!! Of course, we stopped and watched them for a while. I thought that 40-ton humpback whales were big but these guys are enormous. Their bodies just seemed to go on and on as they prepared to “tail fluke” and do their deep dives.

Tags blue whales, Ensenada, great whites, mola mola, sunfish

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