Very candid guest report and video from a recent trip to Socorro during which the scuba diving didn't quite measure up.. — April 1, 2010

Ken Kurtis trip video March 13/10 THE REVILLAGIGEDO ISLANDS (SOCORRO) MARCH 13-21, 2010 click here to see photos from this trip It may not have been the trip we’d hoped for but we still had a memorable experience diving the Revillagigedo Islands of Mexico, better known as Socorro. The trip started off on a semi-ominous […]

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Guests dance the "Samba" after Socorro Island Giant Manta Ray encounter – divemaster log March 25, 2010.

This is our third day of diving on this trip, and the weather has been great since leaving Cabo San Lucas. It is good to see old faces back with us again. The first day of diving at San Benedicto Island, at the dive site “the Canyon” the scalloped hammerhead shark came to the date and […]

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White sharks aren't safe but our cages are…

I am often asked if diving with great white sharks of Guadalupe Island is safe.  My answer is  HECK NO!!!   You are diving with apex predators that are 18 feet long with the girth of a volkswagen van.   There is NOTHING safe about these animals. BUT our cages our safe.  They were engineered […]

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Stranded tanker Sichem Osprey refloated after grounding on remote Clipperton Atoll. The French navy reports that the vessel was towed off the barrier reef after lightering soyabean oil, tallow and xylene onto a second tanker. The hull was intact and the 2009-built ship was able to continue on to Mexico without any environmental damage. March 9, 2010.

PHEWWWWWW!!!   We have been feeling sick about this ever since the Sichem Osprey grounded on our favourite atoll on February 10th..  We were especially nervous when the tsumani went through.   Hard to believe that the Eitzen product tanker managed by Glasgow-based V.Ships Shipmanagement  ran onto the island at full speed and I can […]

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Diving at Rocal Partida with a Tsunami warning – what it was like. Divemaster Log for 27 – 28 February, 2010.

Location: Roca Partida, Socorro island, Baja California, Mexico Approaching Roca Partida in the morning we got a Tsunami warning via our Inmarsat communicating a earth quake outside of the coast of Chile on a scale of 8.8 We got the information that it would arrive around 1045 AM at our site.  We are in this […]

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The diver started kicking like a dolphin and got the 5 dolphins around him so excited they started spinning around him like a top – Guest and Captain Log – 20 FEB 2010

Today the guests and crew of the Nautilus Explorer are nearing the end of an 8 day adventure trip to Socorro Island.  Well, San Benedicto Island and Roca Partida to be more accurate. Later tonight we will arrive back at Cabo San Lucas.  This his has been an adventure for our guests, and for myself […]

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