Flat calm crossing from Guadalupe Island – smooth as glass

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico. Divemaster Sten and Sharkmaster Sam reporting.  Buzz and Mike are both on time off right now.  The crossing at the end of the last trip was mirror smooth with just a very long soft swell.   You could have woken up this morning and believed that you were […]

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Pregnant great white shark???

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Divemaster Buzz at the laptop here as Captain Mike is still on time off..  We are having a superb trip with lots of excellent white shark sightings and loads of interesting behaviour.  It’s funny how variable the diving can be as our last trip was the quietest […]

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The great white sharks are back at Guadalupe Island

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico After a couple of days of white sharking that seemed to get progressively quieter and quieter, it was energizing to get “back on the money” and have the sharks back in full force today.   Diving conditions were quite a bit tougher than normal as we had to deal with […]

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A slow day for great white sharks at Guadalupe Island but lots of yellowfin tuna

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico We’ve had an excellent season so far with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island with lots of awesome sharking.  Unfortunately, as is true of all big animal diving, not every day is going to be awesome.  Yesterday was one of our slower days and today was really slow.   We […]

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Blue whales at Guadalupe Island

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Divemaster Buzz reporting as Captain Mike has gone camping on the shores of the Sea of Cortez in his bus. Had a routine passage to Guadalupe Island with 6 foot seas and a pretty easy ride on the Nautilus Explorer.  Despite an overcast day without the sun […]

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3-D cage diving with great white sharks

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Our new submersible shark cage is wildly successful beyond anything that I had imagined.  The last couple of days in Shark Bay have been tough with 35 – 40 knot winds and a 3 foot swell rolling into the anchorage.  The biggest difficulty is that the current […]

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Forest fire on Guadalupe Island

Location: At sea, half-way between Ensenada and Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Well, we loaded our guests last night in Ensenada after a 90 minute transfer from our hospitality suite in San Diego by luxury coach and got underway for a fairly easy transit to Guadalupe Island.  The seas were flat calm until 0600  (6 […]

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