Aaron – Its 9am and on Wednesday I am usually on my second conference call with Taiwan from my office in NJ. This time of year it is freezing cold, and dark when I leave for work and return home. Instead, parked next to the beautiful San Benedicto Island, its 80 degrees with a nice […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon and the Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Baja California The intense blue sky ardour of yesterday gave way to a selection of brindled pinks and a lurid orange afterglow. The memory of this builds expectation as I find myself in the solitude of another pre-dawn bridgewatch at sea. Again, a fair crossing from […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon dive site, Islas San Benedicto, Revillagigedo’s, Baja California Mexico A day at sea could not be more pleasant. If we reached the forecast values for our transit we’d be content for a tranquil crossing, but our voyage was made all the milder by a minuscule chop and a light, amiable swell on our […]
Read MoreMaggie: The divemaster made sure I saw the Manta that was only 4 feet above my head…I was staring at my computer and was oblivious to 4 divers waving their arms at me…then I looked up and thought: WOW!!! That made the dive. And I must have seen every tropical fish in the book today. […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon and the Boiler by San Benedicto, Socorro Island and Revillagigedos. We finished of our last two days at San Benedicto which is the island 36 miles to the north of Socorro Island. The island is actually very green compared with last year, greener then we ever seen it before. It is in […]
Read MoreLocation: Roca Partida, Nov. 17/18 We are back to our dear rock Roca Partida after been taking nautilus Explorer the 70 Nautical miles from San Benedicto. Our Anchor landed on 245 ft of water and we started to get the skiffs in the water and at 7:45 we started to launch our first divers. Finally […]
Read MoreLocation: San Benedicto After an amazing final 3 days with the White Sharks of Guadalupe and a quick 3-dive stopover in San Benitos we set out on the 600 nautical mile run south back to the magical islas of the Revillagigedos, also known as Socorro. With the prevailing NW’ly swell supplying us with a gentle […]
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