As Larry implemented the tradition of end of season, all the crew gather on the swim step of the boat and jump in the water with our uniforms on. It’s been a great season and an amazing way to finish it, Several mantas, tiger sharks, huge tunas, wahoos, silvertips, all the whitetips, and Roca. Magic […]
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Back to Roca Partida, our church. Today looking beautiful, with calm seas, and for first time coming to this great place, we dove with no current at all. Super amazing clear waters, lots of life, tunas, Galapagos, mantas, and incredible mobulas following the mantas, and Dusky sharks. We still don’t see the hammer heads, hoping […]
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Roca Partida: Day 2 Nautilus Under the Sea and its crew were fantastic at accommodating our party of rEvo closed-circuit rebreathers (they were able to provide complete rental tanks and absorbent, too!). The staff has experience with rebreathers, and knowing the advantage of silent diving, offered to drop us in as the first divers of […]
Read MoreMantas, Mantas, Mantas, Ma……. Was noch? Ach ja, Mantas…. wenn da nur nicht die vielen Bubbles gewesen wären…. Bei jedem Tauchgang hatten wir viele, viele Mantas, aber auch Weißspitzen, Rochen, jede Menge Koffer- und Igelfische und viele Rifffische. Sehr schöne Felsblöcke und Felswand unter Wasser. Entspannte Tauchgänge im wunderschönen Blau des Pazifiks, die Sonnenstrahlen durchschnitten […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon divesite, the Boiler divesite, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Mexico Finally back to the strange beautiful San Benedicto Island. I think it gets a little bit greener every year that we arrive since my fist visit in 2004. Well, it means that you can trace a bit of growth on it now after hurricane […]
Read MoreFar 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.
Read MoreBecause it was such a hot and calm day, Dave decided to make way off the ship and open the pool up for open ocean snorkelling and swimming. Given that they were in 10,000 feet of water, it was fairly certain that nobody would see the bottom! However, guests did see lots of different kinds of jellyfish as well as some pelagic tunicates. We figure that open ocean splashes are always a good bet, time permitting, as you never know what you might see. On the last trip, our guests actually saw a giant manta ray swim past in open ocean!
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