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If you can tear your eyes away from the big fish, you’ll find a vertical wall extending straight down for 200 feet with caves filled with resting white tip reef sharks lined up like sardines

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Post date 2013-12-10
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By Nautilus Staff on December 10th, 2013 in Archive

Roca Partida as we know it from the surface is a guano covered rock extending about 100 feet into the air and about 200 feet in length, poking up out of the pacific ocean 60 nautical miles from the nearest island of Socorro. In the bigger picture it is the very tip, the last second […]

Tags black jacks, Cabo San Lucas, cottonmouth jack, creole fish, galapagos, Roca Partida, schooling hammerheads, silky, silver tip sharks, Wahoo, whale sharks, white tip sharks, yellow fin tuna

Guest blog – Mind blowing. I’ve never seen anything like it. Hundreds of sharks of every description. The best dive of my life!

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Post date 2013-06-26
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By Nautilus Staff on June 26th, 2013 in Archive

Mind blowing, never seen anything like it; hundreds of sharks from white tips, silvertips, silkies to Galapagos and one hammerhead. Then there were the fish, never seen so many, huge schools of criole, huge black jacks, redtail trigger fish, massive shoals of cottonmouth and some kind of mackerel. The best dive of my life!! – […]

Tags Cabo San Lucas, cottonmouth jack, criole, galapagos, hammerhead, mackerel, Mantas, redtail trigger fish, Roca Partida, silikes, silvertips, white tips

Roca Partida looks underwhelming from the surface. A huge school that seemed to go on forever underwater was mesmerizing..

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Post date 2013-06-19
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By Nautilus Staff on June 19th, 2013 in Archive

Dive day two of our current Socorro expedition has us diving famous Roca Partida. A guano covered rock in the middle of the pacific ocean, seeing it from the surface is slightly underwhelming. As soon as you back-roll off our dive tenders and dip beneath the surface though the rock comes alive. Roca Partida is […]

Tags big eyed jacks, cottonmouth jack, creole fish, dolphins, galapagos, hammerheads, Roca Partida, silkies, Whale Shark, yellow fin tuna

WOW! Amazing mind blowing dive at Roca Partida with hundreds of schooling silkie sharks.

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Post date 2013-05-16
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By Nautilus Staff on May 16th, 2013 in Archive

A change from Clipperton: Hundreds Mind blowing, never seen anything like it hundreds of sharks from white tips, silvertips, silkies to Galapagos and one hammerhead shark? Then there were the fish, never seen so many, huge schools of criole, huge black jacks, redtail trigger fish, massive shoals of cottonmouth and some kind of mackerel. The best […]