Diveguide Sten speaks candidly about diving Socorro + guest logs in spanish and english – April 10, 2010

After my time diving and guiding here on the Island of Socorro and the Revillagigedos. It is now my 5th season and my trip number 54 down here. I skipped my work in palau to come back to Socorro. It is not easy diving and getting in to big animals are not easy. It takes […]

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Diving at Rocal Partida with a Tsunami warning – what it was like. Divemaster Log for 27 – 28 February, 2010.

Location: Roca Partida, Socorro island, Baja California, Mexico Approaching Roca Partida in the morning we got a Tsunami warning via our Inmarsat communicating a earth quake outside of the coast of Chile on a scale of 8.8 We got the information that it would arrive around 1045 AM at our site.  We are in this […]

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14 gold medals for Canada!! Plus chance of a lifetime diving with a humpback whale and calf 2 metres away in over 100 feet of water. Guest log. 28 Feb 2010

The last dive of our Socorro  trip was spectacular: a summary of what we have seen on the trip so far. At 30m a school of hammerhead sharks was waiting for us and on the way down two large silvertip sharks were following us accompanied by rainbow runners. At the same time two silky sharks […]

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The diver started kicking like a dolphin and got the 5 dolphins around him so excited they started spinning around him like a top – Guest and Captain Log – 20 FEB 2010

Today the guests and crew of the Nautilus Explorer are nearing the end of an 8 day adventure trip to Socorro Island.  Well, San Benedicto Island and Roca Partida to be more accurate. Later tonight we will arrive back at Cabo San Lucas.  This his has been an adventure for our guests, and for myself […]

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Surge + downcurrent at Roca Partida proves a bit humbling for experienced divers. Guest blog. January 9, 2010

Roca Partida was a great dive site, where repetition on the site was anything but boring. each dive we had no idea which place to look first, at the silver tip sharks, the pod of dolphins, the hammerhead sharks or the enormous yellow fin tuna making the rounds. Lisa tried to tell me about some […]

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Silvia writes in with our first ever "hostess log". January 7 2010 Guest blog

This is my sixth year of working on the Nautilus Explorer and while I love working with Captain Mike and meeting many great guests and having good times, scuba diving still rocks.  I have my first nice dive from this trip, as soon I was in the water in the dive site called “The Boiler” […]

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Socorro Island – January 3,2009 – the best dive of my life was today.. Guest blog

Lynn: The best scyba dive of my life was today!  I descended to 50 feet and took a picture of 8 or 9 whitetip sharks resting on a balcony in the rock.  Then I turned around and there was a whaleshark!  It came close enough to get great photos.  As it moved off, a pod […]

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