Location: The Canyon & The Boiler, San Benedicto, Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Baja California, Mexico Our trip south to the Revillagigedos Archipelago (Socorro Island) was so calm on this run down it was difficult to tell if we were moving. The only waves of the journey were caused by dolphins riding the bow wake, and by marlins […]
Read MoreLocation: Humpback whales have arrived at Socorro Island! Our second day at Roca Partida, and I had a good feeling as the divers and I dropped into the blue at the northern end of the rock. Almost as soon we dropped in I could the sound of strobes recycling, a lot ! I looked around and could […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon dive site, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Check out dives on the Nautilus Explorer do not get any better than this!! We arrived at The Canyon divesite at San Benedicto Island last night and after a quiet calm night in the anchorage, our guests eagerly jumped in the water this morning. We were immediately joined […]
Read MoreLocation: Roca Partida, Revillagigedos, Mexico Over two days we got in 8 dives here, and although not quite as active as the previous trip, we still enjoyed plenty of the big fish we came to see, including some friendly and curious dolphin encounters, silver-tip, scalloped hammerhead and Galapagos sharks. A drift dive in the ‘blue’ […]
Read MoreBack again to what I call the Temple. Broken rock this last remain of a volcano that soars up from the deep and sticks up just above the surface as a little top of a needle in the middle of the ocean. We had fantastic diving with lots of yellow fin tunas and lots of silvertip, galapagos […]
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 MoreLocation: Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico The crew sent me a satellite message today to say that the diving they have been experiencing in the Sea of Cortez is the best they have seen there in quite a while. We are getting reports of everything from tiger sharks in the Biosphere […]
Read More
