Divemaster Blogs from the Sea of Cortés

The highlights had to be up close and personal encounters with sea lions and a school of 30-40 mobula rays right above my head! This is the biggest school I have ever seen in 10 years diving and I hope there will be more schools to see later in the trip!

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Dives of diversity at Isla Danzante

Our Sea of Cortez/Socorro combo trip has started with a good amount of life in the Loreto area (Isla Danzante), with 3 very good dives at the south point of Isla Danzante. We had the opportunity to go searching for photo opportunity animals such as Staghorn hermit crab, brown cheek Blennies…

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The Lonely Rock: "La Reyna"

Sam says, “Don’t pass on the second dive…You might regret it.” Thanks to Sam, I went for the dive and had an amazing time. – Laura, Florida La Reyna With bad weather around the cape last night, we decided to come up into the Sea of Cortez until it settled down a bit. Our first […]

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April: Expectations Met

We are diving in the last week of April and this season really filled up my expectations: today only, we dived with curious and interacting giant mantas, had hammerheads circling us, galapagos and silvertips coming out of the blue, whitetips sleeping under the rocks…it’s more than i can describe! The topography in the divesites is […]

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Guest Blog 02 June 2009

If that’s the warmup dives (Pearse Island), I can’t wait for tomorrow.   Rob.   I went to bed last night thinking that I love my life. And after diving today, it is even more true. Erika. Helluva start to the trip.  Andy. The best of July weather in the beginning of June.  Virginia. This is amazing.   Randi. I saw a […]

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4 mantas who were all real players

After another quiet night at anchor, we headed around the corner to the famous ‘Boiler’, a pinnacle jutting up from several hundred feet to within around 10 ft of the surface. As the ocean swell passes over the rock, the swell climbs and breaks, creating the boiling effect. Today however we had one of those […]

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Muck Diving in British Columbia

Our scuba divers loved it as they found every imaginable sort of nudibranch and “muck” creature. I was a bit skeptical when they surfaced and gleefully told us that it was fabulous British Columbia muck diving but everyone seemed to have a great time. One diver even found the steel hull of a shipwreck on one side of the island. We staged dives 2 and 3 at slack in Quatsino Narrows and very good dives were had by all.

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