San Ignacio Gray Whales
Extraordinary Interaction & Experience
The diving is super hot this morning, with great white sharks continuously around the back of the Nautilus Explorer. The last day and a half were quiet with sporadic sightings (although our first afternoon was good), but the winds have died down and the white sharks are back with a vengeance.
Read MoreHad a flurry of white shark activity first thing this morning but it’s quiet now. I’m hoping for the usual dinner hour flurry with white sharks showing up “on their way home” between 1630 and 1830. One of this morning’s white sharks showed really interesting adaptive behaviour when it went for the shark wrangler’s line rather than the tuna bait – as we snapped the tuna out of the path of the white shark, the bait went straight into its mouth! Clever huh!?
Read MoreWe boarded the last of our 2006 great white shark expeditions last night and I am anticipating a 19 hour run to Guadalupe in a moderate sea. The skies are clear today and I am hoping that I might see the green flash at sunset.
Read MoreWe just finished drifting with a loose pod of blue whales off Ensenada. I’m pretty sure that one of them came over to check us out – there we were drifting along with the engines out of gear when an enormous one (and these guys really are ENORMOUS) surfaced and blew 50ft off the side of the boat. He surprised the heck out of all of us. It was great!!
Read MoreMauricio Hoyes and Dr. John Kelly, 2 of our favourite shark research scientists, have been out in the inflatable with a rotating crew of guests chumming and tracking the great whites. They managed to place a telemetry tag on a 3 metre male shark today and have been tracking it ever since.
Read MoreGreat sharking this morning!! We are back on station with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island and conditions could not be more different than they were on our last trip. The seas are calm and winds are light and variable. We are anchored next to the Ocean Odyssey from San Diego, California and we have both been getting lots of great (no pun intended) shark action this morning.
Read MoreWe departed Ensenada, Mexico at 2200 last night and are en route back to the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island. I’m figuring on 19 hours 30 minutes elapsed time and we should be on station shortly before dinnertime. Our plan is to get all 4 white shark cages in the water tonight and then start chumming overnight.
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