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Tag: pufferfish

Nudibranch in the Sea of Cortez

A Week on the UnderSea in the Sea of Cortez

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Post date 2018-06-22
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By Nautilus Crew on June 22nd, 2018 in Crew, Guests, Sea of Cortez

A never-ending highway of fish! A fish soup or a snowstorm of fish! Thousands and thousands, Creole fish, Jacks, fusiliers, gaftails pompanos, spotted nose snappers, we saw a couple of huge 5 foot Pacific dog snappers and thousands of Bonitos hunting.

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  • Tags electric rays, green turtle, jacks, la reina, machete fish, Mantas, moray eels, pufferfish, sea lions, Sea of Cortez, stingrays, triggerfish, UnderSea
Socorro Vortex swirling

Swirling Socorro vortex of death at Roca Partida ?

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2015-08-21
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By Nautilus Staff on August 21st, 2015 in Captain Mike, Crew, Socorro

Very interesting video pasted in below recently made the rounds on the internet.  It  shows a  horizontal vortex capturing a couple of helpless pufferfish supposedly caused by the change in season at Roca Partida from spring to summer.   hmmmmm.     First of all, I feel badly for the pufferfish.   Poor guys.   […]

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  • Tags Dive Socorro, pufferfish, Roca Partida, shark, Socorro Vortex

Today I got to fulfill my diving dream of 12 years and went scuba diving with a whale shark!

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2013-11-21
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By Nautilus Staff on November 21st, 2013 in Archive

Ich habe heute, nach ueber 12 Jahren und vielen, vielen Tauchgaengen, meinen ersten Walhai gesehen!!! Endlich! Ich habe sooooooooooooooooooooo lange darauf gewartet! Er war riesig und vor allem wunderschoen!!! Ich werde Roca Partida nie vergessen. -Meike After 12 years of diving (albeit on and off while I was at University due to lack of funds) […]

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  • Tags barracuda, black jacks, butterflyfish, chubs, damselfish, galapagos sharks, giant hawkfish, hammerheads, jacks, lobsters, Mantas, Mexican hogfish, Moorish idols, Moray Eel, panamic fanged blennys, porgys, pufferfish, Roca Partida, silkies, spotted boxfish, trigger fish, trumpet fish, Whale Shark, yellowtail surgeonfish

Another wreck dive off La Paz

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-11-09
By Nautilus Staff on November 9th, 2008 in Archive

Location: Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico We made this morning’s  dive at whale island. Explored the caverns and swimthrough and found some beautiful nudibranchs. Had a closer look on two different cleaning stations  –  one attended by barberfish and the other by juvenile mexican Hogfish.    We then got underway and steamed […]

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  • Tags espiritu santo, Grouper, la paz, mexico, Nautilus Explorer, pufferfish, Sea of Cortez
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