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Tag: San Benedicto Island

As the sun is rising, painting the horizon from a gradual red to deep orange. Mantas baby. giant mantas. The sky blending from light blue to deep dark midnight.

  • Post author By Nautilus Staff
  • Post date 2014-01-17
  • No Comments on As the sun is rising, painting the horizon from a gradual red to deep orange. Mantas baby. giant mantas. The sky blending from light blue to deep dark midnight.
By Nautilus Staff on January 17th, 2014 in Archive

San Benedicto round two! What better way to finish the trip off than as we started her. Mantas Baby. Giant mantas. Not only mantas though unexpectedly, as we came back to San Ben for, but dolphins, hammerhead sharks and an extra little surprise too! As the sun’s rising, painting the horizon from a gradual red […]

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  • Tags dolphins, humpbacks, peace in the sea, San Benedicto Island, scuba with mantas, sunrise

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
  • 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 […]

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

Hola from Silvia – one of everyone's favourite hostesses!!!!

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  • Post date 2013-12-09
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By Nautilus Staff on December 9th, 2013 in Archive

I’m back again, I’m Silvia from the Nautilus Explorer, finally we are back at Socorro Island after some great trips in Guadalupe!!!! It was a super trip with good weather, sea conditions and fantastic diving!!! This is the  boiler, one of my favorite dive sites of San Benedicto Island… the visibility was almost 120 feet […]

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  • Tags boiler, hostess blog, lobsters, San Benedicto Island, socorro island

Filming giant mantas at San Benedicto Island

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  • Post date 2009-04-19
By Nautilus Staff on April 19th, 2009 in Archive

Location: The Canyon and the Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Our last Socorro Island trip for the season  is a bit different than normal; we have a film team that only are focused on giant mantas and filming them just at the brightest hours of the day in their natural light and the […]

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  • Tags filming, hammerhead, Mantas, mexico, rebreather, Revillagigedos, San Benedicto Island, The Boiler, The Canyon, whale song

Sharks, sharks and oh yeah, giant mantas as well

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  • Post date 2009-04-12
By Nautilus Staff on April 12th, 2009 in Archive

Location: The Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Baja California We had bigger seas and strong wind today so the divesite  Boiler that we did in the beginning of the trip was not to think about, but the  Canyon was calm. We descended to the cleaning station, the divers in the water acted perfectly […]

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  • Tags Baja California, big eyed jacks, blue fin trevally, cleaning station, eel, hammerhead, leatherbass, manta, Moray Eel, Revillagigedo Archipelago, San Benedicto Island, The Canyon
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