San Ignacio Gray Whales
Extraordinary Interaction & Experience
April 26th 2013 Yesterday was our last day on Clipperton Atoll. It was a once in a lifetime experience that will never be forgotten. We had the opportunity to go ashore which was quite the experience. The island is quite inhospitable but unique in it’s own way. The Booby birds were were in all stages […]
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Shark life was evident almost immediately with several juvenile silver tips cruising around under the boat and checking out the divers. Green and fine-spotted morays roamed the reef bottom, free swimming and often following divers. One diver reported a large hammerhead shark, and I saw an adult silky shark cruising the blue as well. Lots of leather bass, moorish idols, butterfly fish, the endemic Clipperton Atoll angelfish, damsel fish, sergeant majors, blue and gold snapper, trevally jacks, black triggers, goldrim surgeonfish, among others completed the beautiful reef scene.
Read MoreWhat makes this trip really interesting, is its balance between challenging dives like Roca Partida and nice-n-easy dives like our first two at Socorro Island. Btw, night snorkelling with the Silky sharks is really exiting. – G Heute war der zweite Tauchgang der Hammer. 3 Mantas umkreisten uns, einer war so nah dass […]
Read MoreA whole trip in one day: snorkelling with whales, diving with mantas and dolphins. Everything is possible at Socorro. – G We are starting to know the dive site, but the whales, dolphins, giant mantas and hammerhead sharks really don’t get any old. Again a marvellous time on the Nautilus today – Nicolas […]
Read MoreRight now we are on Socorro island at Cabo Pierece (east point). We have been waiting and waiting for the Mantas and they finally arrived; this made everyone very happy! The previous day we were at Clarion Island which was a very good dive. We saw dolphins interacting and some people were snorkeling with the […]
Read MoreHad a beautiful transit over to Clarion, arrived at 1030 this morning to a great dolphin show on the bow. Did a dive on the NE side where we had good diving my first time here. Was ok, some people had dolphins, for others it was a little quiet. After one dive we started heading […]
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For the last two days, we have been snorkelling in between dives at will, with humpback whales, a mother and calf. She is obviously a very comfortable mom as she lets Jr. roam a bit. The calf comes to the surface, breathes, frolics around the divers snorkelling at the surface, then goes back down to mom, who is hovering what appears to be motionlessly at about 8-10 metres below.
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