Guest blog –today the manta didn’t go away – socorro island – 04 mar 2011

  Today the manta didn’t go away. We went up and the manta followed us up to the cable. I think she would have liked to come home with us. What an annoying day. – Guilherme do Brazil We jumped into the water in hope to see a manta. Not even five minutes later a […]

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The Dive I Missed was the one where Everyone Saw Mantas, Sharks, Hammerheads. At Least I Saw a Whale on the Surface Swimming Around. Guest and Divemaster Blog. 09 DEC 2010

Diver Pauly from Chicago.  This is my second trip aboard the Nautilus Explorer.  The staff is exceptional as usual.  We’ve done two days of diving so far and can’t complain at all. Saw a pod of Sperm Whales just out of Cabo San Lucas and a pod of bottle nose Dolphins shortly later.  When we […]

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Hey, Wanna Hang out at Roca Tonight I Thought One Fish Said to Another. Your Brain Has a Hard Time Coming to Terms with what you are Seeing.. Soccoro Island. Guest and Captain Log 28 NOV 2010

Today  was incredible.  The first dive of the day was easily one of my top five dives of all time: three different, majestic giant mantas swimming within feet of us for the duration of the dive, from our first drop to 80 feet to our final ascent to 30 feet.  These creatures are incredibly curious […]

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Hammerhead sharks, dolphins playing and giant mantas circling

Location: Punta Tosca, Socorro Island, Revillagigedo’s, Baja California After the navy inspection we headed out to Punta Tosca. I went down to check out the dive site and had immediately two giant mantas coming in towards me. Going down the first scuba dive they where there. And divers started to do their filming and shooting […]

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Sharks, sharks and oh yeah, giant mantas as well

Location: The Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Baja California We had bigger seas and strong wind today so the divesite  Boiler that we did in the beginning of the trip was not to think about, but the  Canyon was calm. We descended to the cleaning station, the divers in the water acted perfectly […]

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Guest Blog 4-07-09

04.07.09 Kirk OK Sten It’s Blog time. To Start, I’ll say that this is without question the most elegant dive ship I have been aboard. The Vessel was obviously carefully designed and appointed.The crew all friendly and professional.The food tasty and well prepared. I’ll copy some notes from my log later. In Cabo 04.05.09 After […]

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This has got to be my best liveaboard trip to date

1.04.2009 Cabo Pierce. Smooth run over from Roca. Had Mantas waiting in the bay while the Mexican Navy verified our paper work, then over to Cabo Pierce. Hammerheads out on the point for dive one 76 degree water and little current. Dolphins at 60 feet at the point for dives two and three. Very photogenic. […]

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