My best day ever diving with a great white shark

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Dive day 2 of this trip and it was a doozie.   The Mexican navy frigate is still anchored on site in Shark Bay and we are getting to know the crew.   They are good guys and very interested in the experience of diving with great white sharks.  […]

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Navy frigate guarding the Guadalupe great white sharks

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico It’s great to be back at the helm of the Nautilus Explorer.  We had an easy crossing from Ensenada in 4 to 6 foot seas with light winds.  I had one heckuva surprise when I arrived at our anchorage to find a 200 foot Mexican navy frigate […]

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Submersible great white shark cage is a big hit!

Location: White shark bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Day 2 of our current great white shark expedition was a little bit slower but steady all the same.  However it did start with a splash, a breach actually!  At about 0800 a male breached clear of the water.  A few guests got a perfect view, […]

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Hot great white shark diving at Guadalupe Island

Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Mexico The crew out on the shiprwere busier than heck during our Guadalupe season opener  great white shark trip on the Nautilus Explorer.   I wish that I could have been there and am very fortunate to have the extremely capable Captain Rob onboard in my place.   Rob reports that they […]

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Enroute Guadalupe Island, Mexico

Location: Abeam San Clemente Island, California Channel Islands,  USA   Captain Rob is in command and I have been  shoreside ever since the Nautilus Explorer departed Steveston on August 17th.  The start of our Guadalupe Island 2008 great white shark season is just around the corner and it’s time to get the boat down to […]

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Tail Flicks Against a Megaladon Cage by a Great White Shark

The divemastesr soon found their own form however, snatching the tuna baits away from a large female with a severely broken tail who seemed to be working in tandem with “Chica,” who is a regular visitor when we are in Guadalupe.  “Broken Tails” showed some very interesting behaviour – flicking her caudal fin against one of the transom cages and then later rubbing up against the same cage.

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Historical Diving Society Gets Wet With Great White Sharks

We typically pull the shark cages out of the water at 4:30 p.m. on the last dive day but somehow, these darned white sharks must have figured out that timing (or one of them had a quick peak at the whiteboard in the main salon) because 3 of them showed up in force just before cage pulling time and made pass after pass. Our photographers were going nuts with the photo opportunities.

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