Hey, Wanna Hang out at Roca Tonight I Thought One Fish Said to Another. Your Brain Has a Hard Time Coming to Terms with what you are Seeing.. Soccoro Island. Guest and Captain Log 28 NOV 2010

By on November 29th, 2010 in Archive

Today  was incredible.  The first dive of the day was easily one of my top five dives of all time: three different, majestic giant mantas swimming within feet of us for the duration of the dive, from our first drop to 80 feet to our final ascent to 30 feet.  These creatures are incredibly curious […]

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Taking a Month off to Walk on Land while Jessie "Shark Chick" Harper and her Husband Peter Schalwik Take Over as Dive Guides. Guest and Crew Blog. 22 NOV 2010

By on November 23rd, 2010 in Archive

Roca Partida yesterday and today. I have never seen so much fish life in one place! It was an amazing two days. The crew has been super accomodating yet again.The beautiful sunset on Roca Partida was a great way to end the day. Looking forward to Socorro tomorrow!!!! Nathania and Pete, London Ontario Hej Allesammen. […]

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The old salty dogs back in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia would think I was crazy for diving with sharks and manta rays – captain's Log – June 5, 2010

By on June 6th, 2010 in Archive

The romance of the sea takes on a whole new meaning when you get to not only sail the high seas, but also dive them. Especially when that diving involves a very personal interaction with very large, wild animals! Our final expedition of the season to the magical Islands of the Socorros had plenty of […]

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We expected a lot from this trip and so far it even got much better!! After the first 5 days of diving we have seen more .. (* note from Captain Mike – this is the nature of big animal diving – some trips are super hot and the diving sizzles while other trips are quieter. Not every trip is going to be this fantastic… darnit *) Guest blog – June 4, 2010

By on June 4th, 2010 in Archive

It is easy to get jaded about diving when you work on the Nautilus Explorer. For example, I went diving in Hawaii this past April and, although the dive was quite pretty, I couldn’t help but feel a little unfulfilled when the dive was over. No sharks, no mantas, no dolphins…. This afternoon I dived […]

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Diving at Roca Partida has been GREAT!!!! We could see the bottom at 250 feet and a giant whale shark posed for us.. crew and guest blog – 02 June, 2010.

By on June 2nd, 2010 in Archive

Dancing with a Whale Shark at Roca Partida The past two days diving here at Roca Partida have been great. We have had some of the clearest water ever, we could even see the bottom at 250′. Yesterday, on our first dive we were slowly drifting along the back side of the rock when Peter […]

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Yellow-fin tuna hunting underwater and then becoming prey when false killer whales moved in on us – Captain, hostess and guest blog – May 22, 2010

By on May 22nd, 2010 in Archive

More great diving at the one of a kind Roca Partida today, despite the wind and choppy sea state. For those of you not familiar with Roca Partida, from the surface it is nothing more than a rock, roughly 200 ft long by 100 ft high, jutting up in mid-pacific, hundreds of miles from any […]

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Baby whale shark at Roca partida but diving is otherwise a bit slower than normal – dive guide, crew and guest log – 18 MAY 2010

By on May 19th, 2010 in Archive

We started of with our first day in San Benedicto after a smooth ride down from cabo San Lucas. canyon did not get so much so we moved over to the Boiler and had both better vizibility and one big black manta that got interest of us , but went off after an 10 min. […]

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