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A large great white at Guadalupe Island

Noontime Shark Fest

  • Post author By Nautilus Crew
  • Post date 2018-10-05
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By Nautilus Crew on October 5th, 2018 in Crew, Guadalupe

We had 8 or 9 different sharks (the maximum count at once was 6!), with at least three females and many males.

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  • Tags cage diving, great white sharks, great whites, huge divedeck, improvement, joker, Nautilus Explorer, refit, ropey, shark diving, shark wrangling, sharks, upgrades, wrangling
Nautilus Explorer and Belle Amie in dry dock

Annual Shipyard Refit Continues – How do we get the Ships out of the Water?

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2017-07-12
  • 2 Comments on Annual Shipyard Refit Continues – How do we get the Ships out of the Water?
By Nautilus Staff on July 12th, 2017 in Captain Mike, Crew

I often get asked how the heck we get a 1 million pound plus dive boat out of the water…Good question!! We have used a number of different techniques over the years from a “railway” which is indeed just as it sounds – a railway track into the water with massive supports, and a heavy […]

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  • Tags liveaboard diving, luxury liveaboard, refit
Shipyard crew works on the Undersea

The Undersea Renovations

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2017-07-11
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By Nautilus Staff on July 11th, 2017 in Captain Mike, Crew

Shipyard renovation and refit of the Nautilus Undersea continues – whoohooo! The featured photo is of the new main salon under construction that will extend aft into the old dive deck, with a separate lounge sitting area with big comfy couches on one side and dining room on the other side. Most exciting of all […]

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  • Tags Liveaboard Diveboat, liveaboard diving, refit
Undersea Hunter begins refit

Shipyard Madness!

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2017-07-10
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By Nautilus Staff on July 10th, 2017 in Captain Mike, Crew

Shipyard madness before start of Guadalupe great white shark season! Well, it’s refit – ie. that time of the year when all 3 ships get pulled out of the water for shaves and haircuts (which is what sailors call cleaning up their ship and painting the bottom), engine replacement, major overhauls, upgrades and lots of […]

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  • Tags liveaboard diving, luxury liveaboard, refit

Shipyard refit 2012 is complete and the Nautilus Explorer looks shinier than ever…Next stop: Guadalupe Island great white sharks.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2012-08-03
  • 1 Comment on Shipyard refit 2012 is complete and the Nautilus Explorer looks shinier than ever…Next stop: Guadalupe Island great white sharks.
By Nautilus Staff on August 3rd, 2012 in Archive, Guadalupe

The Nautilus Explorer and the Swell are our pride and joy. Each boat gets hauled out of the water every year for refit and makeover. We all get involved and work very long days over 3 weeks tiddlying things up with fresh paint and varnish, making improvements, overhauling machinery and conducting annual survey and audit […]

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  • Tags great white sharks, Nautilus Explorer, refit

Captain Mike Is Back at the Helm and Loves It!

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2009-05-12
  • 1 Comment on Captain Mike Is Back at the Helm and Loves It!
By Nautilus Staff on May 12th, 2009 in Archive

The good news is that the crew and I and a host of shoreside support workers (there are almost 30 of us!!) have been swarming the ship like busy ants and the Nautilus will once again be shiny and fresh and spotlessly clean with all sorts of improvements when we board our first Canada trip this coming Saturday…  I can feel the soul of the ship rapidly getting re-energized and ready for sailing!! We can’t wait.

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  • Tags canada, Nautilus Explorer, refit, steveston

Our First Alaska Expedition and Dive Trip of 2008

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2008-06-14
By Nautilus Staff on June 14th, 2008 in Archive

We are enroute now for 2 days of scuba diving at Port Hardy (Queen Charlotte Strait, Browning Pass and Dillon Rock in Shushartie Bay), 1 day diving the wreck of the Transpac at Butedale and then it’s off to Alaska!

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  • Tags Alaska, Browning Pass, Butedale, dillion rock, port hardy, queen charlotte strait, refit, shushartie bay, steveston, transpac, transport canada, Vancouver Island

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