Why do we have to leave? Damn that nitrogen narcosis.. The giant manta is the most gorgeous, graceful fish in the sea!

December 11th, 2013 Bright and Early before Sunrise, up comes the Anchor at San Benedicto, the Canyon.  Socorro Island.  To the Boiler we go!  Around the corner on the east end of San Ben about a mile off, lies an awesome pinnacle in 150ft of water right to 15ft below the surface.   Clearly able to […]

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Hola from Silvia – one of everyone's favourite hostesses!!!!

I’m back again, I’m Silvia from the Nautilus Explorer, finally we are back at Socorro Island after some great trips in Guadalupe!!!! It was a super trip with good weather, sea conditions and fantastic diving!!! This is the  boiler, one of my favorite dive sites of San Benedicto Island… the visibility was almost 120 feet […]

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Our first ever sighting of a thresher shark at the Boiler dive site (Socorro Island). wahooooo!!

  We have made an overnight crossing from San Benedicto to Roca Partida and we are arriving just as the sun comes up. It is going to be a warm day under clear sunny skies. The last two days we have had some great diving, a few hammerhead sharks in at the cleaning stations at […]

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The Start of our Cold-Water Diving Season

Our British Columbia and Alaska scuba diving adventures are among my  favourite trips of the year and I am anxious to get going. We were up very late last night and all the staff made one heckuva an effort to wrap this year’s intensive and extensive refit and overhaul in time to board our guests at noon.

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