For the first 6 weeks or so of the season we see almost exclusively male white sharks. Generally they are a little smaller in size than the females, especially in girth. When a big female appears in front of the cages they are unmistakable and awe inspiring. Their movements are a little more slow, more […]
Read MoreSo close, that the tail of the whitey hits onto my strobe! Too close! – Kim Poh Chan, New York & Singapore What a day!!!! Our third day we had 2 of our favourite great whites, Bruce and Rudo, doing crazy and awesome maneuvers like crazy Ivan’s and play between them – who is the […]
Read MoreWoke up to a phenomenal great white shark breach just off the stern of the Nautilus Explorer as the sun started to peek over the horizon. It was one of our white shark beauties, nearly soaking the eager guests. What better way to start the day! The guests immediately ecstatic to get in on the […]
Read MoreThere have being reported 11 different species of sharks at Isla Guadalupe, According to the UN data, in 2009 there were captured in legal fishing operations 720,000 tons of sharks, whereas illegal poaching of sharks for finning captured 1.7 millions of tons equivalent to 38 million of sharks. This is one of the reasons why […]
Read MoreThe island was part of the route of the Nao de la China, the Spanish galleon. Galleons were the big wooden cargo ships that made the route from China and the Philippines to the New Spain –as it was called Mexico back then. As the trip was very long, the Spaniards brought some goats with […]
Read MoreIsla Guadalupe is full of endemisms, -endemism is a particularity of fauna and flora that inhabit a specific site in the world. Guadalupe is being compared with the Galapagos having that wide number of unique species –or sub-species. Guadalupe –that is 35 km long and 9.5 km wide, is oriented from north to south in […]
Read MoreWell we have been out at Guadalupe Island for the last two days on the Nautilus Explorer. We anchored up this trip at the White Shark Gully and it has been a great site for us. Action has been non-stop every dive the last two days. We know big Bruce is around but he has […]
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