Slow and hot diving at a windy rock.

We are happy to get back to Roca Partida and managed to make 2 days even if we had a weather report that promised wind. Thanks to Captain Mike being onshore and closely  following the weather reports truly we have managed the last two years fullfill to get out to this beautiful place even if […]

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Welcomed by a giant manta

Location: The Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos We anchored up at the Canyon on San Benedicto Island and looking in to the water it was not crystal clear so the mood went down a bit. For those divers that swam to the cleaning station, a big female hammerhead shark passed just a couple of meters […]

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Giant mantas and hammerhead sharks at San Benedicto Island

Location: The Canyon,  San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Well here we are once again off San Benedicto island in the Revillagigedo archipelago, having just wrapped the first day of diving with our new guests! The run down from Cabo San Lucas was pleasant and uneventful, with the occasional humpback whale sighting breaking up the endless […]

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At last, love with giant pacific manta rays!

Location: The Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico We may often write these reports lauding the encounters with silky, galapagos, and hammerhead sharks that we find around Socorro Island, but it is no great secret that the real star attraction –  the marine life that most divers come to see – are the beautiful resident […]

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50 sperm whales just surfacing meters from Nautilus Explorer!!

Location: On our way to the  Canyon,  San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico On our way heading down south leaving Cabo San Lucas we started directly spot Humpbacks whales , a bit later a marlin at the surface. 30 Nautical Miles south of the cape we first spotted 3 what we first thought where humpbacks but […]

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Where are the giant mantas?? They are at San Benedicto!!

Location: The Boiler divesite, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Mexico Spent the last dives of the trip at the Boiler divesite and finally got the giant mantas.  And then some.  Great interaction.  Passing and passing and curiously approaching us and even following us back to the Nautilus Explorer so that we can continue to snorkel with them […]

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Return to Socorro and San Benedicto Island

Location: The Canyon divesite, the Boiler divesite, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Mexico Finally back to the strange beautiful San Benedicto Island.  I think it gets a little bit greener every year that we arrive since my fist visit in 2004.  Well, it means that you can trace a bit of growth on it now after hurricane […]

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