Tag: bottlenose dolphin

Dolphins, playing like children!

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2018-03-20
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By Nautilus Guests on March 20th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

Wow, wow, wow! First two, then four, then finally: fourteen DOLPHINS PLAYING LIKE CRAZY CHILDREN!

Tags bottlenose dolphin, cabo pearce, dolphin, socorro island

Mantas, the queens of the game

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Guests, Socorro
Post date 2018-02-24
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By Nautilus Staff on February 24th, 2018 in Crew, Guests, Socorro

San Benedicto: a sacred rock. It’s blessed with jacks of all ages and sizes; juveniles, mid-sized, and super-sized trevallies swarm around the Boiler in large schools, surrounded by schools of the very fish they feed on, who, tongue-in-cheek, promenade themselves right in front of them. Yet mantas are the queens of the game; they seek […]

Tags bottlenose dolphin, cabo pearce, el boiler, giant pacific manta, San Benedicto

In the right place, with the right people.

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2018-01-06
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By Nautilus Staff on January 6th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

As a divemaster when you do this job you somehow get less impressed little by little, and unbelievable things must happen to get you amazed and make you feel lucky and more than anything grateful. You stop perceiving the reality and live in a dreamy world beneath the surface and you think it is normal. […]

Tags bottlenose dolphin, dolphin

Manta ballet and dolphin caresses

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2018-01-05
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By Nautilus Staff on January 5th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

The Best Dive ever of my life down in Cabo Pearce with Dive Master Pato!! Many Many thanks Papero!! The magical dance of Giant Mantas, their sweet eyes in mine and an unbelievable courtship ballet. Suddenly a playful family of Bottlenose Dolphins appeared from the Blue. The caresses of one of them will stay marked […]

Tags bottlenose dolphin, cabo pearce, giant manta, Nautilus Explorer

What a beautiful night to be at sea = especially in the light of a full moon.

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2013-06-01
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By Nautilus Staff on June 1st, 2013 in Archive

We left last evening with a new group of guests and have had very good conditions for our transit out to the islands of the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We are currently about 16 nautical miles north of San Benedicto and in the light of the nearly full moon, I can see the island rising from the […]

Tags bottlenose dolphin, Revillagigedo Archipelago

Our annual and very unusual visit to Clarion Island. WOW!!

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Categories Archive
Post date 2013-04-12
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By Nautilus Staff on April 12th, 2013 in Archive

We are about a third of the way through our current dive expedition to the Socorro Islands. This expedition is 13 days total and will include 11 days of diving. One benefit of this extra long trip is the chance to visit Isla Clarion. Clarion is the last of the 4 islands of the Revillagigedo […]

Tags big eyed jacks, black jacks, bottlenose dolphin, clarion island, creole fish, galapagos sharks, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, Humpback Whale, Isla Clarion, orcas, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, silky shark, silver tip shark, white tip reef shark

As we rounded the corner a Galapagos Shark spied us. June 8, 2011 Guest Blogs Socorro on Nautilus Explorer

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Categories Archive
Post date 2011-06-08
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By Nautilus Staff on June 8th, 2011 in Archive

First day at Roca Partida. We were very excited about this first dive since at Socorro Island, visibility was not so good. We jumped into the water and the first thing we spot is a bulky silver tip and a big lonely tuna surrounded by many jacks. Plenty of jacks and other fishes, pretty good […]