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Sea Lions at San Benitos

San Benitos: A Sea Lion’s Playground

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Categories Crew, Guadalupe
  • Post date 2018-09-10
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By Nautilus Crew on September 10th, 2018 in Crew, Guadalupe

If I had to describe San Benito’s diving in just a few words, I would say that is is a “sea lion’s playground.”

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  • Tags bat rays, Cedros Island, elephant seals, fur seals, garibaldi fish, great white sharks, great whites, green turtles, hammerhead sharks, harbour seals, horn sharks, kelp forest, mako sharks, Nautilus Undersea, pinnipeds, San Benitos, sea lions, sharks, sixgill sharks, thresher sharks, torpe sharks, white sharks

We sailed from the port of Ensenada around midnight, fully loaded with fuel, food and a boat full of excited divers.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Categories Archive
  • Post date 2013-11-14
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By Nautilus Staff on November 14th, 2013 in Archive

This marks the beginning of the changing of seasons for us, we will start by cage diving with great whites sharks at the Island of Guadalupe, then head south east to the dense kelp forests of Benitos and Cedros Islands to splash around with seals, sea lions and elephant seals. Once the Northern portion of […]

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  • Tags Cedros Island, dolphins, elephant seal, great white sharks, Guadalupe Island, hammerhead sharks, kelp forest, manta, San Benitos, sea lions, Seals, socorro island

San Benitos Island – A perfect mix of tropical and temperate diving?? The seal grabbed my fin in it’s mouth!!!

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Categories Archive
  • Post date 2013-11-13
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By Nautilus Staff on November 13th, 2013 in Archive

On my break today I slipped into my wetsuit and clambered aboard the dive skiff along with Hostess Carmen. First Mate Shaun expertly drove us out to a kelp patch located along side San Martin, a small island a few hours off the coast of the Baja California. Only fishermen live on this small island […]

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  • Tags Baja California, dusky damselfish, Garibaldi, harbor seals, kelp forest, lobsters, reefs, San Benitos, sea urchins, seaweed, tropical fish, wrasse

I love diving with California sea lions at San Benitos. They are a different kind of fun that diving with white sharks.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Categories Archive
  • Post date 2013-11-04
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By Nautilus Staff on November 4th, 2013 in Archive

First dive with sea lions great, the harbor seal was good. – Yves Nice kelp forest, beautiful sea lions. – Kim Los bosques de kelp muy bonitos y los peces muy amistosos, quede entretenido con las focas y leones marinos – Mauricio Lovely combination of seal lions, garibaldis and guitar ray. – Achim Smiling all […]

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  • Tags California Sea Lion, Garibaldi, great white sharks, guitar ray, harbor seals, kelp forest, San Benitos

I felt that I had been dropped into a sea lion nursery. I was surrounded by juvenile california sea lions trying to figure out this strange looking visitor.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Categories Archive
  • Post date 2013-11-03
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By Nautilus Staff on November 3rd, 2013 in Archive

San Benitos and the word of the day is sea-lions. Day 4 and it was a 4-dive day for me. The first three dives of the day were like being dropped in a sea lion nursery just surrounded by juvenile sea lions that wanted to play around and figure out who these strange looking visitors […]

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  • Tags kelp forest, San Benitos, sea lions

We would swim out into a clearing and the sun would beam through the fronds casting a golden glow over the sea floor. The Garibaldi would give us haughty looks.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Categories Archive
  • Post date 2013-10-29
  • No Comments on We would swim out into a clearing and the sun would beam through the fronds casting a golden glow over the sea floor. The Garibaldi would give us haughty looks.
By Nautilus Staff on October 29th, 2013 in Archive

Hostess Carmen and I got our dive gear ready and in a flash were headed out on one of the skiffs with 1st Mate Shaun at the helm. We dropped down in a kelp forest just off Isla Cedros and after a few minutes of adjusting weights we were off! I can’t remember a time […]

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  • Tags Garibaldi, Isla Cedros, kelp forest, sea lions

It’s that time of the season when the really big female white sharks start showing up at Guadalupe Island. We call them big momma’s.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Categories Archive
  • Post date 2013-09-30
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By Nautilus Staff on September 30th, 2013 in Archive

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 […]

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  • Tags Cedros Island, fur seals, great white sharks, Guadalupe Island, harbor seals, kelp forest, San Benitos, sea lions

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