Some of the most challenging diving in our short time as divers but the reward was amazing.

We had the most amazing snorkel with the Giant Mantas today. There were about five or six of them about 50 metres from the boat when we came up from our first dive. So we got back into the water to go and see them. Truly spectacular! They just circled and circled around us whilst […]

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A pod of dolphins just swam around us. I'm talking 3 – 4 feet away and I counted 10 different animals all do the same thing. It was like a ballet dance.

  I had a great 2 days diving at Roca Partida with nice hot weather and warm water of 81 F and the visibility about 100 plus . The sighting of hammerhead ,silkys, galopogos sharks,silver tips, white tips,and manta just hang with us for the whole dive on some dives. When we are doing our safety […]

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Captain's Log – where does the time go?? it just flies away..

We are three-quarters of the way through this Socorro trip. Where does the time go. I know it feels that way for the guests on board, but for the crew time just flies as well. We have already had some great dive days on this trip, but today will be a hard one to repeat. […]

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DOLPHINS ARE SO SICK!!!! Possibly the most magical day yet on the Nautilus Explorer. EVEN MORE DOLPHINS!!!

Today was quite incredible at Socorro on the Nautilus Explorer, at least 5 mantas circled over and over and on two separate occasions we encountered a gang of super friendly dolphins. On our morning dive, we ran into ~20 dolphins that stuck around and interacted. It was truly one of the most magical animal encounters […]

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Hernan, our deck man came towards us at Roca Partida as if he was an angel, surrounded by dolphins.

After our very first dive at Roca Partida, (amazing dive, by the way, during which we saw one beautiful manta and several dolphins resting and slowly swimming close to us) I was on the surface waiting to be picked up, and suddenly, I see Hernan, our Deck man coming with the dingy towards us just […]

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Of our 4 Socorro dives today, we had giant manta encounters on three of them I had the sensation she would swim right up to me.

Our crossing from Cabo San Lucas to Socorro Island was wonderful with very small seas, light wind. We headed to the south of San Benedicto, which lets us anchor in the protection of the island. Although it has not been that long, it seems like forever since I was last down here. I have been […]

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