Tag: clarion island

Giant manta ray migratory route

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro
Post date 2007-02-27

By Nautilus Staff on February 27th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Highlights included a huge bait ball of skipjacks being hunted by silky sharks and 100-pound yellowfin tuna, a group of five hammerhead sharks that approached within 40 feet of the divers and a blue water drift dive looking for pelagics. All the usual Roca Partida critters were present, including over 30 white tip reef sharks, silky and Galapagos sharks and some curious wahoo.

Tags bait ball, clarion island, dr. bob rubin, galapagos sharks, giant manta rays, hammerhead sharks, manta science, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, Sea of Cortez, silky sharks, skipjacks, Wahoo, white tip reef sharks, yellowfin tuna

Red hot diving at Roca Partida

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro
Post date 2007-02-17

By Nautilus Staff on February 17th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Measuring 91 metres by 45 metres by 34 metres high, the island is actually the lava plug from a volcano that gradually eroded away around it. It is an amazing 11,000 feet deep around the volcano and we gingerly anchor the Nautilus Explorer in 245 feet of water very close to the lava tube. Roca Partida is a “magnet” for mantas, sharks of all kinds, wahoo, tuna, dorado and all other manner of sub-tropical fish.