Captain’s Noon Reports – Gallant Lady- 2022-01-31

Everyone also got to see fin whales and a humpback, as well as all kinds of dolphins that were in the area. “Best day ever” was heard several times as the guests came back to the Gallant Lady to refuel with lunch. During lunch, we motored two hours south to the beautiful bay of Agua Verde where we enjoyed cocktails on the beach and our famous taco night.

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Diving Isla Espiritu Santo and Los Islotes

Diving Isla Espiritu Santo and Los Islotes in the Sea of Cortez is a unique and different experience with its own charm – and generally calm water – and excellent visibility. Isla Espiritu Santo We started the day at the artificial wreck Fang Ming that came in with Chinese refugees and later became the first […]

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Ending the season in Los Islotes

Well it’s the last trip of the season in my favorite boat, Nautilus Explorer. We’ve been having a lot of fun; our guests in this trip are awesome. They are enjoying every dive site we go to. Now we end this day of diving in Los Islotes, where the sea lions were very playful. The […]

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Beautiful free diving with the sea lions at Los Islotes

Our friend and passionate conservationist Erendira Valle writes “I’m producing a short film about the harmony between humans and marine animals.   The free diver is Maria Teresa and we want to get images of her with sharks and giant manta rays.   We started with the California sea lions at Los Islotes and send […]

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Trip Report: Nautilus Explorer and the Sea of Cortez – By mathauck0814 on ScubaBoard

Last September my wife, Ashley, and I joined some friends in Cabo for a non-diving weekend of adult beverages and general debauchery. To our surprise, we were able to get in a day of diving with the good folks at Nautilus Dive Tech. While this is not meant to be a review of NDT, I feel I […]

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Celebrating Independence day with Americans onboard a Canadian boat drinking Mexican beer…

Note from Captain Mike: Report just in on errant unusually aggressive behaviour from a dominant male sea lion at Los Islotes.   More to follow… I didn’t tell my wife to check the blogs, but I’d like to tell er I had an awesome trip as usual on the Nautilus Explorer and the crew could […]

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Return to the Sea of Cortez for some really nice diving brings back memories – dive guide log – 14 MAY 2010

So after finishing up last day diving in San Benedicto and Socorro Island with A LOT of hammerhead sharks at the Canyon and actually no big animals at the Boiler we decided to run north to the Sea of Cortez for a couple of days of scuba diving. . We met som decent waves on […]

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