scuba diving in the Sea of Cortez

Sea Lion Bites

By on December 7th, 2017 in Crew, Socorro

After the dives in Cedros Island & San Benito, the guest are really happy. The dives were fantastic, I have been diving with sea lions during the last 15 years, and always is fun share the water with them, they are so playful, biting my hand and the head of the other divers, the fins, […]

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sea lions, scuba diving in the Sea of Cortez

San Benito Seals

By on December 6th, 2017 in Crew, Socorro

San Benito its one of these places that leaves you speechless: the unique interactions with those that call it home, plus amazing visibility and calm seas with sea grass and kelp swaying with the slight swell as the seals play with us, their new friends, that hung out with them all morning. Truly an experience […]

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First mate Tavis and I slipped into the water off Cedros Island to check out hordes of sea lions, Guadalupe fur seals and the elephant seals making such a ruckus on the beach.

By on November 17th, 2013 in Archive

After 3 Magical days with the great White sharks it was time to point the boat towards the waters of Cedros and Benitos I think some of our guests had already started to wonder how this trip could get any better after spending that much time in the water with such huge animals. This morning […]

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So far this is my third season divemastering Guadalupe Island great white shark trips and to me, every season just gets better and better.

By on November 16th, 2013 in Archive

We stayed for three days and we saw some huge female great whites that we have not seen for the entire season so that was excellent. There was a big male sea lion that had a bite on the side of it and it seemed that it was recently done but he was not shy […]

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We sailed from the port of Ensenada around midnight, fully loaded with fuel, food and a boat full of excited divers.

By on November 14th, 2013 in Archive

This marks the beginning of the changing of seasons for us, we will start by cage diving with great whites sharks at the Island of Guadalupe, then head south east to the dense kelp forests of Benitos and Cedros Islands to splash around with seals, sea lions and elephant seals. Once the Northern portion of […]

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San Benitos Island – A perfect mix of tropical and temperate diving?? The seal grabbed my fin in it’s mouth!!!

By on November 13th, 2013 in Archive

On my break today I slipped into my wetsuit and clambered aboard the dive skiff along with Hostess Carmen. First Mate Shaun expertly drove us out to a kelp patch located along side San Martin, a small island a few hours off the coast of the Baja California. Only fishermen live on this small island […]

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This is one of those places that if you captured it in a painting, it would look surreal and tacky. Burnt orange island with a contrast of colours on cobalt blue water

By on November 9th, 2013 in Archive

  This morning I woke up to my alarm and looked out my porthole. It was dark with the smallest hint of orange in the eastern sky. I trundled up to grab a cup of coffee with the rest of the crew. At 6:15 we had the cages in the water and the sky was […]

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