A 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.
Read MoreI had a great 2 days diving at Roca Partida with nice hot weather and warm water of 81 F and the visibility about 100 plus . The sighting of hammerhead ,silkys, galopogos sharks,silver tips, white tips,and manta just hang with us for the whole dive on some dives. When we are doing our safety […]
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The hammerhead sharks were just hanging out at about 80ft. I had this one encounter where I just stared out into the blue, not knowing that a school of them were just over my head, but one got my attention, it just kept coming and coming. It got about 3 feet away from where I was. I had a close look at the razor sharp teeth, that was my first encounter with one that came that close for the 12 years of diving experience.
Read MoreToday was quite incredible at Socorro on the Nautilus Explorer, at least 5 mantas circled over and over and on two separate occasions we encountered a gang of super friendly dolphins. On our morning dive, we ran into ~20 dolphins that stuck around and interacted. It was truly one of the most magical animal encounters […]
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