San Ignacio Gray Whales
Extraordinary Interaction & Experience
Location: In port, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico I’ve received a number of inquiries from folks asking if the presence of a navy frigate anchored at Guadalupe Island is making a difference to our cage diving with great white sharks. Well… the short and truthful answer is… not really. The great white sharks are at Guadalupe and they […]
Read MoreLocation: White shark bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Day 2 of our current great white shark expedition was a little bit slower but steady all the same. However it did start with a splash, a breach actually! At about 0800 a male breached clear of the water. A few guests got a perfect view, […]
Read MoreLocation: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. We will be boarding our first Guadalupe Island great white shark trip of the season in just a couple of hours. I am totally wired and can’t wait to find out what the diving is going to be like when the Nautilus Explorer arrives on station. Unfortunately I will […]
Read MoreLocation: Ensenada, Mexico Excitement is running really high among the crew as we make final preparations for boarding our first great white shark trip to Guadalupe Island tomorrow. Everyone has been working flat-out to get the Nautilus Explorer turned around at the shipyard. We yanked and changed out the carpet on the main deck, dorm […]
Read MoreLocation: Ensenada, Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Well, the Nautilus Explorer arrived in Ensenada this morning precisely on schedule after a 6 day steam down the coast from Vancouver… We set aside 4 days for a “mini-refit” in the shipyard and then we are off on our first trip to Guadalupe Island to dive with great white sharks. I’ve been chatting […]
Read MoreDivemaster Tricia here. Captain Mike has pneumonia and had to go back to Vancouver. The “other” Captain Mike (Innes) is onboard. We left Ensenada yesterday afternoon after our guests were transferred down by luxury highway coach, steamed overnight and set the anchor at San Clemente Island this morning. This is my first time diving the California Channel Islands but the very able Captain Eric Kett (formerly of Truth Aquatics) is working dive operations and knows this area like the back of his hand. We dove Window Pane with its fabulous kelp forest. And then Pyramid Cove which was especially great with large schools of blue rockfish and lots of sea lions hanging around.
Read MoreLocals here in Ensenada are telling us that they have never seen such sustained and strong Santa Ana outflow winds. The good news is that the downtime gave us an extra 5 days to catch up on painting, varnishing, carpentry, welding repairs and such. The bad news is that winds blew up such a choking dust storm that it was impossible to get any painting done until the winds finally died down this morning.
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