The Nautilus Undersea crew jumps under sea!

Undersea – End of Socorro Season!

By on June 23rd, 2017 in Crew, Socorro

As Larry implemented the tradition of end of season, all the crew gather on the swim step of the boat and jump in the water with our uniforms on. It’s been a great season and an amazing way to finish it, Several mantas, tiger sharks, huge tunas, wahoos, silvertips, all the whitetips, and Roca. Magic […]

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BOOM! Whales everywhere. A few dolphins were riding the whales bow wake. Yes there were enough of the whales together that they were creating a bow wake.

By on March 21st, 2013 in Archive

  This morning myself and four others, after observing several humpbacks cruising around the Nautilus Explorer, went out whale watching. We cruised towards the shore behind us at Punta Tosca searching for a few of the big guys we had seen flopping around on the surface. As we approached a group of three, they suddenly […]

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60 Silky sharks together like a pack of wolves.

By on March 19th, 2013 in Archive

Here we are on a trip of 12 days it have been the best with the weather it is just like a lake we started our dive in San Benedicto it was awesome with a tiger shark just as we went down it stayed around for the whole dive and also hammerhead what away to […]

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The water temp is 73 F not too bad, even if it's cold for me, when the whales appear the cold disappears! Best whale encounter that I have ever experienced.

By on March 6th, 2013 in Archive

Here I am back on the go to the best whale encounter that I have ever have experienced . We did our check out at San Benedicto and were just getting everyone ready for the best whale encounter. We started early this morning just to see on the horizon the big blow of the whales […]

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I've dove Roca Partida hundreds of times, does that make it any less special? Absolutely not. If anything, I am more and more appreciative

By on February 21st, 2013 in Archive

Ya vuelvo a Mexico por fiiiiiin! It’s really good to be back. After spending the last 2 years exploring other parts of the big wide world (hello, Philippines and Indonesia! I’ll be back!) I’m very stoked to have come back to la vida loca del Nautilus Explorer. I’m very happy to have seen some old […]

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Good start for the first day, we started at the dive site The Canyon where we saw Hammerhead, White tip, and Galapagos sharks! The second dive we headed to the Boiler to find the friendly giant mantas!

By on February 20th, 2013 in Archive

I am back from time off I left just as the whales they were coming around. I was thinking about the date that I was to come back just to see the whales. So far we left from Cabo with a group of divers from WIRODIVE for 12 days on the first day we stop […]

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Incredible diving! Silvertip, hammerheads, dolphins, whale with calf and some ignored Mantas in ONE DIVE. I love Roca Partida!

By on February 11th, 2013 in Archive

Start with the good news, conditions at Socorro Island, although a little windy 10-15 N are very diveable.  Swell is quite small 3-5′ with a 1’chop, skies are sunny with a few clouds, water temp is still warm 25C and vis is good 80 – 100′ or 30 m. The rest of the news is […]

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