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Sten Sees a Sailfish & a Tiger Shark!

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2018-07-04
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As we were leaving the deeper water, coming out of the Boiler, I had just sent up my SMB when a huge sailfish came straight up from the deep, preparing to go for the SMB!! So cool, and such a surprise! It took a couple turns around the floating SMB with its sail out and then took off. IT WAS SO BIG! Not long after we had a fat, good-sized Tiger shark checking us out. She was in no rush but kept a bit off in the distance.

Tags el canyon, galapagos, Galapagos Shark, Hammerhead shark, hammerheads, oceanic black tip, sailfish, Sea of Cortez, silvertip, The Boiler, Tiger Shark

Marine Biologist Miguel Meets his First Manta

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-07-03
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By Nautilus Guests on July 3rd, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

And there it was: a beautiful animal, a majestic MANTA, the first one in my life. My heart started beating fast, my breath was taken away, my eyes and mind hypnotized. The best experience of my life, I finally saw my dream in front of me, a moment I have taught about a thousand times, and it came true, I was not dreaming.

Tags blacktip reef shark, Galapagos Shark, Giant Mantas, jacks, marine biologist, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, sea turtles, sharks, silver tip, stingrays, The Boiler, Tiger Shark, Wahoo, Whale Shark, white tips, yellowfin tuna

See you next season Socorro!

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2018-07-02
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By Nautilus Crew on July 2nd, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

Roca saved the best for last with a 12 metre whale shark, along with a manta in one of the dives. Simply unbelievable. When we turned around the corner, schools of Galapagos was covering the bottom blue of Roca Partida!

Tags Galapagos Shark, Giant Mantas, manta rays, mobula, nautilus divers, oceanic mantas, Roca Partida, Whale Shark

Heavily pregnant silky sharks

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2018-06-13
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By Nautilus Crew on June 13th, 2018 in Crew, Guests

We had around 10 sharks with us, two of which were large heavily pregnant females around 8ft long! We also saw a school of squid and the silky sharks hunting small baitfish! At one point I saw a silky actually catch a fish! I felt a bit sad for the little guy but it was a pretty incredible spectacle of nature to behold!

Tags cabo pearce, dusky shark, Galapagos Shark, Hammerhead shark, silky shark

two giant manta rays seemingly doing an aquatic dance together

Fabulous team & dive masters

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-06-06
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By Nautilus Guests on June 6th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

The Dive Masters knowledge of all sites (Coeoiats Cannon, Roca Partida, Punta Tosca, The Boiler and Fondeadero) was invaluable. We were split into 3 dive teams that the dive masters rotated between all groups allowing them to get to know their guests on a one-to-one basis and not just by sight on the boat.

Tags bottlenose dolphin, dusky shark, fondeadero, Galapagos Shark, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, Punta Tosca, Roca Partida, silvertip shark, The Boiler, The Canyon, whitetip shark

diver floats and plays with regulator bubbles

Best ever diving on the Nautilus UnderSea

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-06-05
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By Nautilus Guests on June 5th, 2018 in Crew, Guests, Socorro

On almost every dive, we encountered friendly giants mantas, massive tunas, and on 3 dives, the biggest fish of the ocean: a whale shark. Some of us were lucky enough to witness the few hours before birth of a baby dolphin, a couple of divers got the privilege to see the healthy baby 4 days later.

Tags bottlenose dolphin, false killer whale, Galapagos Shark, giant manta, Nautilus Undersea, Roca Partida, Whale Shark

roca partida as seen through two lovely glasses of wine!

False killer whales head-butting

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-06-04
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By Nautilus Guests on June 4th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

But as they approached the boat we realized they were not actually the bottlenoses we’d seen a lot. We then realized they were false killer whales! I was incredibly exciting when 15-20 of them decided to stick around. We even saw two of them head-butting!

Tags false killer whale, Galapagos Shark, Nautilus Belle Amie, Roca Partida, silky shark, silvertip shark, whitetip shark, yellowfin tuna

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