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6 Hours of Filming Every Day is Hard Work!!

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-03-14
By Nautilus Staff on March 14th, 2008 in Archive

Over the years, we have seen that the manta rays at San Benedicto seem to like to interact with scuba divers, coming back and making eye contact and as divemasters we have felt that they will always single us out and make a close pass as if they recognize us. There are three models/freedivers on this trip who have been diving down and swimming with the giant manta rays and one of them has definitely been singled out by two of the mantas that we encountered. Every time she dives down the mantas will turn into her and circle around her and get very close. The other two divers, one male and one female, are getting are far less interest from the mantas. Hmmm…

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  • Tags ashes and snow, freedivers, freediving, giant manta rays, Giant Mantas, gloria, manta rays, Mantas, San Benedicto, The Boiler

Giant Mantas Starring in Ashes and Snow

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  • Post date 2008-03-05
By Nautilus Staff on March 5th, 2008 in Archive

Our first priority was to remove the fishing net that was caught on the Boiler and had been found on our last trip. The crew of the Solmar V had done a good job of removing a large part of the net which made our job a lot easier. As we were finishing up a pod of dolphin and two mantas showed up. We like to think that they were thanking us for our work. The first day of the photo shoot was auspicious. Two giant mantas chose to interact with us, one kept coming back to the camera and the divers, turning and swimming loops around us as the film team and freedivers got used to the conditions and the interaction.

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  • Tags ashes and snow, dolphins, film crew, fishing net, freedivers, freediving, giant manta rays, Giant Mantas, illegal fishing, manta rays, Mantas, San Benedicto, The Boiler

Red Hot Diving at Roca Partida in Perfect Conditions

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  • Post date 2008-03-01
By Nautilus Staff on March 1st, 2008 in Archive

The scuba diving at Roca Partida was red hot today. Not sure what else I can say! The seas were calm. Everyone saw giant manta rays (as advertised, we are quite sure that these are the “friendliest” mantas in the world), loads of sharks and large schools of fish with everything set to the music of humpback whales singing in the distance.

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  • Tags giant manta rays, Giant Mantas, humpback whales, humpbacks, manta rays, Mantas, Roca Partida, sharks, whales

Slowest Trip Ever for Giant Mantas Finishes with Stellar Sightings and Behaviour

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  • Post date 2008-02-22
By Nautilus Staff on February 22nd, 2008 in Archive

This trip has been one of the lightest on giant mantas that this divemaster can remember. But fortunately (and none too soon!) we had a stellar eleventh hour appearance from three giant, friendly, photogenic mantas at our last dive site, The Boiler, at Isla San Benedicto.

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  • Tags dolphins, giant manta rays, Giant Mantas, manta rays, Mantas, San Benedicto, The Boiler

Bid Farewell by a Large School of Hammerhead Sharks and Giant Mantas

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  • Post date 2008-02-13
By Nautilus Staff on February 13th, 2008 in Archive

At the end of the day, just before coming up from the last dive for fresh baked cookies and champagne mimosas, some of our divers were bid farewell by a large school of hammerhead sharks! Once again, the creatures of Revillagigedos had organized a really nice sendoff for us, practically begging us to return to say hi to them one more time.

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  • Tags dolphins, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, manta rays, Mantas, San Benedicto, sharks, The Boiler

Zen-Like Bluewater Diving Looking for Mantas and Sharks

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  • Post date 2008-02-11
By Nautilus Staff on February 11th, 2008 in Archive

Silky, Galapagos, and hammerhead sharks made numerous appearances, along with large schools of yellowfin tuna, almaco jacks, trevally, and the innumerable triggerfish and reef animals that we’ve come to expect.

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  • Tags almaco jacks, blue water dive, bluewater diving, drift dive, drift diving, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, jacks, manta rays, Mantas, Roca Partida, silky sharks, trevally, triggerfish, tuna, yellowfin tuna

Welcomed to Socorro by Hammerhead Sharks, Dolphins and Giant Mantas

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-02-08
By Nautilus Staff on February 8th, 2008 in Archive

On the second dive, the giant mantas made an appearance! We had relocated to a site called The Canyon, where we had numerous sightings of hammerhead sharks, most notably a very large and curious fellow who made several circles about the same cleaning station.

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  • Tags cleaning station, dolphins, Giant Mantas, giants causeway, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, manta rays, Mantas, San Benedicto, southwest san benedicto, The Boiler, The Canyon

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