Mantas, Whalesharks, can it get even better?

Ein Tag mit allem, was das Herz begehrt: ein riesiger Manta, der uns einen kompletten Tauchgeng lang begleitet, Whitetips beim Gruppenkuscheln in den Hoehlen und als WG mit riesigen Schmuckgarnelen, etliche Hammerhaie, Galapagoshaie, eine Schule Mobula-Rays und ein Walhai! Can it get even better?? – Verena, Germany

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Back to Roca Partida, our church.

Back to Roca Partida, our church. Today looking beautiful, with calm seas, and for first time coming to this great place, we dove with no current at all. Super amazing clear waters, lots of life, tunas, Galapagos, mantas, and incredible mobulas following the mantas, and Dusky sharks. We still don’t see the hammer heads, hoping […]

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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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Mating mobula and manta ray??

One of our divers reported seeing extraordinary behaviour with a very large male mobula ray (which is still dwarflike in size compared to a giant manta ray) pursuing a female chevron giant manta. While we have seen a lot more female than male mantas this season, the males are definitely here and we sometimes observe what appears to be mating behaviour with the male pursuing the female from behind and the two of them soaring and dancing through the water. It’s hard to tell if they are both enjoying it (not meaning to anthropomorphize the behaviour too much) or if the female is simply trying to get away from a doggedly determined lustful male!! Anyways, Roberto is quite sure that the pursuing ray was a mobula as its mouth was not located terminally. Soooooo, the question is whether he might have witnessed a prelude to interspecies sex!?! 

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