Shark Week has nothing on us today. I got so used to the shark action that I almost skipped the last dive. Whale shark!

Our first three dives were filled with the usual galapagos and silver tipped sharks, nests of white tipped reef sharks, giant tuna, wahoo and the odd pacific manta. My highlight so far was the three hammerhead encounters on my second dive this morning – stunning. I got so used to this amazing shark action that […]

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Who knew that white tip sharks grade themselves by size? from small to big. From the Nautilus Explorer – Roca Partida

Arriving at 7AM to the Mexican Show on Roca was very welcoming to the boatload of Canadians made us feel right at home. Dropping into the blue with a dense school of jacks and trevally, interspersed with wahoo, puffers and oh yes, dozens of sharks!! White tips, silver tips, Galapagos, silky, hammerhead and apparently a […]

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We found a honey hole with 50+ lobster at Socorro Island!!

Good J Andrea, Austria Excellent. Mantas in intensive and close encounter and to top everything the first dolphins I ever saw under water, Brigitte, Germany Auch auf Deutsch kann ich nur wiederholen, was meine Vorredner berichten: Mantas intensiv, staendiger Augenkontakt, elegantes Unterwasserballett – ein unvergesslicher Tag – Socorro pur! Antonia, Germany We found a honey […]

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After a slow cruise along the eastern shore of Clarion Island we dropped anchor off a huge reddish colored cliff rising straight out of the ocean. Clarion, Socorro Islands, Mexico.

We arrived at the remote Clarion Island early this morning after an overnight transit from Roca Partida. Clarion is the 4th island in the Revillagigedo chain of islands, commonly known as the Socorro Islands. We rarely get a chance to dive here, so we are still in the exploration stage at Clarion. Today after checking […]

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Diving Here is Like Swimming in an Aquarium – June 5, 2011 – the Boiler

  The boiler today proved once again that diving here can be like swimming in an aquarium. We entered the water with schools of Big Eye Trevally Jacks in the blue around the boiler and thousands of colourful Wrasse’s all around the top of the boiler. Dropping down and moving around the nooks and crannies […]

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We were lying on the bottom sneaking up to a cleaning station like a group of ninja's. 50 hammerhead sharks showed up! Socorro Island. 08 MAY 2011

Today was just a beautiful  morning dive. We were a quite big group all laying close to the. bottom sneaking up to the cleaning stations like a group of ninjas. The group were doing it perfect keeping down it gave fruit to a group of around a 50 hammerhead sharks came up over and over […]

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Guest Blog – Lots of mantas, lobsters, sting rays… – Socorro island – 06 mar 2011

  What a great  day, Punta Tosca (Socorro) Lot`s of mantas, lobsters, sting rays, whales jumping all around at the end of the day… and a lesson learned… "Don`t go for the mantas, wait and they will came for you". Tired but tomorrow, Roca Partida will be the cherry of the cake… 2 more days […]

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