Tag: Octopus

The First Report from Bahía de los Ángeles

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Categories Crew, Sea of Cortez
Post date 2018-08-19
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By Nautilus Crew on August 19th, 2018 in Crew, Sea of Cortez

The day ended with a whale shark jamboree, with five or six different individuals providing super up close and personal encounters.

Tags bahia de los angeles, coral gardens, el racito, frog fish, giant sea bass, gorgonian coral, Octopus, sea lions, turtle, Whale Shark, whale sharks

Nautilus Under Sea Guests Blogs

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Guests, Socorro
Post date 2018-02-20
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By Nautilus Staff on February 20th, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

I did three nitrox fun dives, full of life, octopuses, hammerheads, black mantas, mantas, bluefin trevallies, jacks, etc., just thought after the third dive when I had the opportunity to share with the manta my own personal moment, I decide to not to do the third one, but the rest of the team did it. […]

Tags black manta, cabo pearce, dolphin, el canyon, Hammerhead shark, Nautilus Luxury Liveaboards, Octopus, San Benedicto, silky shark, socorro island

Dolphins & Octopus at Cabo Pearce

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Categories Crew, Socorro
Post date 2018-01-23
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By Nautilus Staff on January 23rd, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

For me, it was a wonderful first experience at Cabo Pearce. Despite unfavorable surface conditions, we encountered a playful small group of Dolphins. An exposed octopus gave guests a colorful display of its camouflage capabilities as it moved along the bottom shortly before the return of the dolphin that greeted us at the beginning of […]

Tags cabo pearce, dolphin, giant pacific octopus, Nautilus Explorer, nautilus luxury liveaboard, Octopus

Why do we have to leave? Damn that nitrogen narcosis.. The giant manta is the most gorgeous, graceful fish in the sea!

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2013-12-15
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By Nautilus Staff on December 15th, 2013 in Archive

December 11th, 2013 Bright and Early before Sunrise, up comes the Anchor at San Benedicto, the Canyon. Socorro Island. To the Boiler we go! Around the corner on the east end of San Ben about a mile off, lies an awesome pinnacle in 150ft of water right to 15ft below the surface. Clearly able to […]

Tags boiler, canyon, lobsters, Moray Eel, Octopus, San Benedicto Island, schools of jacks, white tips

Divemaster report from the Boiler dive site at San Benedicto Island (Socorro)

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2013-11-23
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By Nautilus Staff on November 23rd, 2013 in Archive

Vis: 100 ft – 140 ft Temp: 82 degrees Weather: raining at morning,cloudy,bit windy but warm enough. Seas: bit chopy at morning, soft swell Comments: Manta day, since the first dive till the last. Manta’s all the time and in the last 2 dives, 3 mantas together outstanding interaction with the divers, first dive dolphins […]

Tags dolphins, hammerheads, lobsters, Octopus, San Benedicto, white tip reef sharks

Facts about the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island

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Categories Archive, Guadalupe
Post date 2013-07-15
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By Nautilus Staff on July 15th, 2013 in Archive, Guadalupe

There are about 500 shark species in the world. One of the satellite-tagged great white shark at Guadalupe Island traveled 3,800 km (2100 NMi) to Hawaii. Sharks dive up to a depths of 680 m (2230 feet or 370 fathoms) in water with a temperature of 4.8°C (41°F). At Isla Guadalupe you can find not […]

Tags bull, cookiecutter sharks, crustaceans, fur seals, great whites, grey smoothe-hound, hammerhead, leopard, mako shark, marine birds, Octopus, tiguer, whale, whitetip

Whale carcass drew in a small schools of sharks

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Categories Archive, Guests, Socorro
Post date 2012-12-27
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By Nautilus Guests on December 27th, 2012 in Archive, Guests, Socorro

Today we had not only 4 amazing dives but the added adventure of a large chunk of whale floating past the boat. Normally I would not consider this a good thing but the 2m sq hunk of humpback whale was providing shelter and nourishment for a variety of fish. Our intrepid Captain Al took a few of us out to get a closer look (and smell unfortunately) in one of the ribs.