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A beautiful whale shark spotted in Socorro. Photo by Kim Nilsson Davidsson

False Killer Whales, Tiger Sharks and Whale Sharks at Socorro

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2019-02-01
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Schooling hammerheads at Punta Tosca, a Tiger shark at Roca O’Neal, 8 Giant Mantas in one dive at the Boiler and an awesome surprise at Roca Partida when a pod of about 60 False Killer Whales swam by the Explorer.

A manta glides through the blue at Roca Partida

Mantas and Tigers and Hammerheads, Oh My!

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Post date 2018-12-19
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By Nautilus Crew on December 19th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

Roca Partida is a spectacle at the moment. The first dive gave us schooling Whitetips (50+ individuals), Silvertips, Galapagos and Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks.

The Vikingo in Socorro

By Nautilus Crew on June 28th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

Visibility of an easy 100ft of blue water and a couple of dolphins were sitting vertical, getting cleaned by the Clarion Angelfish but they didn’t get too close to us this time, but the mantas did! We are still trying to ID them but I estimate we had around 10 different mantas around us throughout the day, staying with the divers through the whole 3 dives.

Tags angelfish, baby manta, bonitos, creole fish, dolphins, duskys, galapagos sharks, Mantas, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, sharks, silvertips, The Boiler, tuna, vikingo, white tips

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

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

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

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

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

Post author By Nautilus Staff
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, Socorro, white tip reef shark

Guest Blog – Four Dives with Silvertips and galapagos – Clipperton Atoll

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Post date 2011-04-12
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By Nautilus Staff on April 12th, 2011 in Archive

A nice day of diving on the leeward (SW) side of Clipperton Atoll. We made four dives along the barrier wall and saw many silvertip and Galapagos sharks. The tiger shark and hammerheads from yesterday did not visit us again, but tomorrow is another day and another chance. –Chris Up early for pre-breakfast dive and […]

Tags angel fish, blue snapper, blue spotted jack, Clipperton Atoll, creole fish, Galapagos Shark, gold snapper, golden jack, leatherbass, lumphead triggerfish, Moray Eel, Nautilus Explorer, pacific crevalle

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