The Trip to Socorro was just incredible, even better than I expected or hoped it would be mantas, dolphins, and lots of sharks, I felt like I was in a BBC underwater documentary. The best dives of my life, you don’t get to see that anywhere else.
Read MoreLocation: Enroute to San José Island Weather: Clear Skies, E Wind (3-5kts), SE Swell (1ft) Yesterday we finished the day in Las Animas before the night dive a lot of dolphins were swimming to the N of the Island very close to us, we took the skiff and our guests and we went directly to […]
Read MoreThis was my third Nautilus Liveaboard trip and perhaps the one I was most looking forward to. Although I got to see an entire Great White Shark breach from head to tail in the air in Guadalupe, and a pod of orcas kill and EAT a whale shark in the Sea of Cortez, I had […]
Read MoreMy first liveaboard ever and I couldn’t have asked for a better first! I must admit the diving was more challenging than what I am used to but with the help of the amazing dive masters onboard I was able to get through. We saw dolphins, oceanic mantas, hammerheads, massive lobsters, Silvertips, silky sharks, a whale shark, white tips, black tips – you name it and we saw it.
Read MoreIt’s hard to single out highlights from the trip. Curious mantas were circling our group for what seemed like forever, playful dolphins swarming us and getting so close my wide-angle GoPro couldn’t keep up. A tiger shark at Canyon! Sure, there were dozens of Silvertips and some big Galapagos sharks, but when a tiger shows up, that’s all you can talk about. There’s no such thing as a quiet dive at Roca, but throw in a whale shark and a dozen dolphins and it’s hard to get out of the water.
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make many quiet dives down to swim among them and even had them swim over the top of me. Such a wonderful opportunity to observe their social structure and behaviors.
Read MoreYesterday we did two more dives at Roca, great dives with lots of sharks especially on the last dive, lots of whitetips very active, silvertips, Galapagos, and a few hammerheads. On the last two dives, also on the last two dives yesterday some of the divers could see a pod of bottlenose dolphins, around six or seven dolphins were playing for more than 10 minutes with our divers.
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