Captain Gordon Kipp’s lowdown report on diving with great white shark at Guadalupe Island

Currently into our third day of cage diving on this 10 day Guadalupe/San Benitos combo expedition. We’ve had beautiful conditions topside with flat calm water in the anchorage with consistently sunny skies all day. The cage diving started off a little slow on our first day but by late morning the whities had arrived and […]

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Divemaster Report : San Benitos

Date: Aug 14, 2013 Location: San Benitos Dive 1: 0800 ˆ Peck Rock (north end of East Benitos) Temp: 63F Viz: 90ft Wx: light wind from NW, overcast Seas: 3-4′ nw’ly swell Comments: Good dive, lots of fish life, a few sea lions around. Found a long stretch of fishing long-line and recovered it onboard. […]

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The sea lions followed us all the way back to the Nautilus Explorer but were not able to climb up the dive ladder

So far we had a great time at San Benito’s . We did a nice shallow dive with the sea lion and not to forget the kelp forest underwater. The vis was about 80 plus temp 63F, it was refreshing but we have a lot of fun . We move over to the island Cedros […]

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One of the few places in the world to see Guadalupe fur seals – divemaster report – August 29, 2010.

The beautiful underwater world of “Islas San Benito” is located west of Isla Cedros which in turn is west of Guerrero Negro in the middle of the Baja peninsula. This Place is paradise come true for Kelp diving fanatics like myself. It is lush, healthy and pristine, with giant kelp, palm kelp, sargasum, sea grass […]

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