Fire at sea!!

Location: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska Fire at sea but no, it definitely wasn’t on the Nautilus Explorer!!  Dive day #1 of our last Alaska trip of the season saw us at anchor in the Inian Islands  – one of our favourite sites in southeast Alaska.  Sure, the scuba diving is fantastic here but […]

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Guest Blog – July 22/09

My 100th dive no better place then alaska ! exhilarating experience awesome invertebrate life with incredibly long “dooky” trails from the seacucumbers !!! – Anne Die Nautilus Explorer ist immer wieder eine Empfehlung! Nur mit diesem Schiff ist ein solcher anspruchsvoller Tauchtrip in Alaska ein echter Genuss und keine Anstrengung. Wir haben in den ersten […]

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Humpback whale kills a bald eagle

Location: Inian Island, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska Interesting trip this last week with less diving than normal and a lot more inflatable and skiff excursions to watch, observe and photograph all the neat animals up here – humpback whales, bald eagles, stellar sealions, sea otters, puffins, cormorants, oyster catchers and even orca’s. It’s a private […]

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Guest Blog 2 July 2009

Saw lots of coral today all over the walls – orange, white, red, pink.  There were also tons of nudibranchs. I got a picture today of a sea otter in the foreground, a whale spouting behind it and beautiful snowy mountains in the background.  Where else can you see that. Robbie I saw a snail laying eggs in a circular […]

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Guest Blog 28 June 2009

Breaching humpback whale, orca, grizzly bear and icebergs and calving glaciers in Tracey Arm, southeast Alaska Dog’s bollocks (which means fantastic just in case you are not familiar with UK vernacular). Wow factor was unbelievable. I have a smile all across my face. But I lost my mask.  Suzi Kayaking amongst bergie bits chasing seals to no avail (my day in Tracey […]

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Good bye Socorro Island – see you next season.

Location: The Boiler and the Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos Early morning just before sunrise I will admit that I sneaked in to the cleaning station at the Canyon on San Benedicto Island to try something that still haven’t given result. Finding the thresher sharks!! Last year when Captain Mike unfortunately found just recently […]

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Scuba diving rocked at Roca Partida, Socorro

Location: Roca Partida, Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Mexico We started of with going out visiting a big group of hammerhead sharks a bit outside of the rock. In several moments we were in the middle of the sharks looking in all directions; seing this beautiful graceful hammerhead in the middle of the blue just floating around […]

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