At last, love with giant pacific manta rays!

Location: The Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico We may often write these reports lauding the encounters with silky, galapagos, and hammerhead sharks that we find around Socorro Island, but it is no great secret that the real star attraction –  the marine life that most divers come to see – are the beautiful resident […]

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Sun-soaked silky smooth crossing to Socorro Island

Location: The Canyon & The Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Our first day in the water for this trip, and everyone was looking forward to it after a sun-soaked silky smooth crossing!  Weather conditions could not have been better for the start of this trip, and the transit from Cabo to Socorro Island was […]

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Feeding mantas and Humpbacks

Location: Punta Tosca , Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Baja California, Mexico We came out on the lava flow and on the first scuba dive we got a few hammerhead sharks.  I got a single humpback whale swimming over our head and by the time as I reached the first and closest diver it was gone!! Cr*p!!!  On […]

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50 sperm whales just surfacing meters from Nautilus Explorer!!

Location: On our way to the  Canyon,  San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico On our way heading down south leaving Cabo San Lucas we started directly spot Humpbacks whales , a bit later a marlin at the surface. 30 Nautical Miles south of the cape we first spotted 3 what we first thought where humpbacks but […]

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In-water encounter with humpback whales.

Location: Roca Partida, Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Mexico Getting back to Roca Partida, again we met up with dolphins like last time. It has been more frequent than earlier. My theory is that they have been following the humpbacks out here , very often when we see hump back we see them escorted by groups of dolphins. […]

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Guest blog trip 275

26 January 2009   Punta Tosca   The first group on the first dive was lucky enough to see four different mantas. After that it was rather quiet. Low visibility and annoying currents pushing away from the dive site and the island   Visibility around 10 m, water temp +25   Harri Wikberg     […]

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