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A shark glides through the blue at Socorro

The Lunar Eclipse Brings Out the Sharks!

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Post date 2019-01-23
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By Nautilus Crew on January 23rd, 2019 in Crew, Socorro

As we were getting ready in the full moon, the lunar eclipse started to form and by the time we got dry with all the guests enjoying hot chocolate and Baileys, it was nearly complete. What a sight!! It seemed like the sharks noticed it too.

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  • Tags cabo pearce, chevron manta, dolphins, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, jacks, lunar eclipse, Mantas, night snorkel, oceanic mantas, Punta Tosca, Roca Partida, schooling hammerheads, sharks, silky sharks, silky snorkel, silvertip sharks, tiger sharks, whale sharks, yellowfin tuna
Schooling hammerheads at Socorro. Photo by divemaster Jessie

Hammerheads and Dolphins Delight at Socorro

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  • Post date 2019-01-14
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By Nautilus Crew on January 14th, 2019 in Crew, Socorro

We saw mantas every day, we saw hammerhead sharks every day and we saw dolphins on 4 out of the 5 diving days!

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  • Tags black mantas, cabo pearce, chevron mantas, dolphins, el canyon, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, Mantas, night snorkel, pod of dolphins, roca o'neil, roca o'neill, Roca Partida, schooling hammerheads, sharks, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, taco night, whales
A silky shark at night. Photo by Sandra Haessler

Sharks for Christmas at Socorro

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  • Post date 2018-12-28
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By Nautilus Crew on December 28th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

We descended right down to the cleaning stations and were greeted by a school of juvenile silvertip sharks, 2 chevron mantas, a hammerhead, and lots of cool fish.

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  • Tags bonitas, cabo pearce, chevron mantas, christmas, christmas diving, clarion angelfish, el canyon, fundadero, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, Mantas, night snorkel, Octopus, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, sharks, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, Wahoo, whitetip sharks
A manta and it's entourage. Photo by Yves Lefevre

A Manta Ballet and a Wall of Hammerheads

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  • Post date 2018-12-17
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By Nautilus Crew on December 17th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

Today I got the chance to witness two Bottlenose dolphins playing with an oceanic manta and some other divers saw a wall of hundreds of hammerhead sharks, just to make the day even more epic!

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  • Tags black mantas, cabo pearce, chevron mantas, dolphins, el canyon, false killer whales, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, jacks, manta rays, Mantas, national geographic, night snorkel, oceanic mantas, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, schooling hammerheads, sharks, silky sharks, sivertip sharks, taco night, The Boiler, whitetip sharks, yellowfin tuna

New Diving Site at Socorro Island but Lack of Charismatic Megafauna

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  • Post date 2008-04-11
By Nautilus Staff on April 11th, 2008 in Archive

Punta Tosca on dive day 4 was also surprisingly quiet and the visibility was low so after 2 dives at the outer point we decided to move the Nautilus up a couple of bays and try a new site. A series of small rocks sticking out of the water with a sheer drop to 120 feet on one side and shallower bays on the other. It proved to be fascinating and several guests saw sea turtles and a “fly by” with a giant manta. Definitely a site that we will repeat but once again the “charismatic megafauna” was elusive.

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  • Tags clarion damselfish, Giant Mantas, humpback whales, manta rays, Mantas, night snorkel, Punta Tosca, sea turtles, sharks, silky sharks, whales

NafNaf – the fearless baby silky shark

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  • Post date 2007-02-14
By Nautilus Staff on February 14th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

We all fell in love with a really tiny baby silky that had to be a newborn, and couldn’t have been more than 20″ in length – AT MOST! He was very, very cute and our guests promptly named him NafNaf. NafNaf was certainly a fearless shark, and he kept on getting in the way of the larger sharks to the point of snatching a piece of fish out of the mouth of one of the big guys! All of our hearts went out to him.

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  • Tags baby silky shark, dolphins, humpback whales, manta, night snorkel, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, spyhopping, turtles, whale calf, white tip reef shark

Silky sharks under the ship’s lights

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2007-02-09
By Nautilus Staff on February 9th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Crew, Socorro

Dave reports that the divers saw 7 silver tip sharks between 5 and 7 feet in length circling at the north end of Roca Partida, along with at least 10 silky sharks and some good-sized Galapagos and hammerhead sharks. One interesting note is that one small silvertip shark apparently chased away 4 larger silky sharks (4 – 5 feet in length) that were hanging around a tag line hanging off the back of the Nautilus Explorer. Not sure on the dominance behaviour of silky and silvertip sharks, but that strikes me as highly irregular behaviour.

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  • Tags galapagos sharks, hammerheads, night snorkel, silky sharks, silvertip shark
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