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Tag: galapagos sharks

Shark sightings and spawinging urchins at Clipperton Island

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-04-17
By Nautilus Staff on April 17th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Far and away the coolest thing we saw on our afternoon dives were spawning sea urchins! Yup, we happened across in-water sexual reproduction as the urchins released sperm into the water column. It looked almost as if the urchins were sending up smoke signals with puffs of white “smoke” (sperm) spiraling up from the top of these amazing echinaderms. You have to think that it is a very long shot that eggs are going to get fertilized this way but that’s what happens.

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  • Tags CLipperton, Clipperton Atoll, galapagos sharks, giant manta ray, longlines, sea urchins, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, us navy wreck, white tip reef sharks

Conrad (Connie) Limbaugh and Clipperton Island

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-04-14
By Nautilus Staff on April 14th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Juvenile Galapagos sharks (carcharhinus galapagensis) were reported as being extremely numerous and aggressive during the 1956 expedition. To the point where scuba diving operations were first limited and then terminated because of the apparent danger from the sharks. The shark cage was the answer on the 1958 expedition. Cool huh?!

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  • Tags CLipperton, Clipperton Atoll, Conrad Limbaugh, first shark cage, galapagos sharks, scripps expedition

San Benedicto enroute Clipperton Island

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-04-12
By Nautilus Staff on April 12th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Spent the morning at the Canyon on San Benedicto. I splashed in on the first dive which was pleasant with a couple of hammerhead shark sightings plus good ol’ Lumpy, our tame and over friendly leather bass putting in his regular appearance at the inner cleaning station. Dive 2 was GREAT with two friendly giant manta rays showing up as well as silvertip, Galapagos and hammerhead shark sightings.

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  • Tags CLipperton, el canyon, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, lumpy, San Benedicto, The Boiler

Mating mobula and manta ray??

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-04-07
By Nautilus Staff on April 7th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

One of our divers reported seeing extraordinary behaviour with a very large male mobula ray (which is still dwarflike in size compared to a giant manta ray) pursuing a female chevron giant manta. While we have seen a lot more female than male mantas this season, the males are definitely here and we sometimes observe what appears to be mating behaviour with the male pursuing the female from behind and the two of them soaring and dancing through the water. It’s hard to tell if they are both enjoying it (not meaning to anthropomorphize the behaviour too much) or if the female is simply trying to get away from a doggedly determined lustful male!! Anyways, Roberto is quite sure that the pursuing ray was a mobula as its mouth was not located terminally. Soooooo, the question is whether he might have witnessed a prelude to interspecies sex!?! 

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  • Tags galapagos sharks, giant manta, jacks, Mantas, mating, mobula ray, Roca Partida

Schooling Galapagos Sharks

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  • Post date 2007-04-06
By Nautilus Staff on April 6th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

So there we were, towards the end of our dive, coming around the north end of Roca Partida and swimming through an enormous school of jacks when, HOLY COW, a group of very large Galapagos sharks swam right up to us and started circling around. I had never seen anything like it.

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  • Tags galapagos sharks, jacks, Roca Partida, save our sharks, schooling galapagos sharks, stop shark finning

Slow Trip for Giant Manta Ray Sightings

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  • Post date 2007-04-04
By Nautilus Staff on April 4th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

We spent the rest of the day at Cabo Pearce where the diving was very good. Divers saw a large school of hammerhead sharks above the outer cleaning station (in approximately 50 feet of water), smaller groups of hammerhead sharks as well as Galapagos and silky sharks.

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  • Tags cabo pearce, ecotourism, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, Mantas, Navy Base, silky sharks, socorro island

Tiger shark at The Boiler, San Benedicto Island

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-04-03
By Nautilus Staff on April 3rd, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Anyways, the visibility this morning 80ft plus and our divers had some great hammerhead, silvertip and galapagos shark sightings. Plus good old Lumpy, our tame leather bass with the broken jaw was there as always. I was very tempted to stay for another dive but flexibility is the name of this game and our guests wanted to move on to the Boiler on the west side of San Benedicto Island.

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  • Tags el canyon, galapagos sharks, hammerhead sharks, humpback whales, jacks, lumpy, San Benedicto, silvertip sharks, The Boiler, Tiger Shark

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