I got a hug underwater from a harbour seal playing in the shallows at San Martin. I’ve never experienced that before!

Here I am on a Guadalupe combo trip, we started our expedition at San Martin with the kelp diving. Kelp diving makes me feel like I am in a healthy corn field, the only thing is that I am blowing bubbles. Don’t even talk about the harbor seals, this is my third season and I […]

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I love diving with California sea lions at San Benitos. They are a different kind of fun that diving with white sharks.

First dive with sea lions great, the harbor seal was good. – Yves Nice kelp forest, beautiful sea lions. – Kim Los bosques de kelp muy bonitos y los peces muy amistosos, quede entretenido con las focas y leones marinos – Mauricio Lovely combination of seal lions, garibaldis and guitar ray. – Achim Smiling all […]

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I felt that I had been dropped into a sea lion nursery. I was surrounded by juvenile california sea lions trying to figure out this strange looking visitor.

San Benitos and the word of the day is sea-lions. Day 4 and it was a 4-dive day for me. The first three dives of the day were like being dropped in a sea lion nursery just surrounded by juvenile sea lions that wanted to play around and figure out who these strange looking visitors […]

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My whole life I have constantly been in the water and have loved marine life but I never expected I would get to see something as amazing as the great white sharks at Guadalupe Island.

At the end of the day I had not been in the water even five minutes and had two great white sharks surrounding the cage up close showing off their huge teeth.  The warmth, colour and visibility of the water here is something I never got to experience in BC, along with hot weather and […]

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It’s that time of the season when the really big female white sharks start showing up at Guadalupe Island. We call them big momma’s.

For the first 6 weeks or so of the season we see almost exclusively male white sharks. Generally they are a little smaller in size than the females, especially in girth. When a big female appears in front of the cages they are unmistakable and awe inspiring. Their movements are a little more slow, more […]

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Blog from Silvia – one of our most treasured and wonderful hostesses – and her crazy experiences on the last trip including mola mola

Hola…This is Silvia From the Nautilus Explorer, I being working for this great company and my friend, Captain Mike, for almost 10 years.  I have done trips from Sea of Cortez to Alaska, British Columbia, Socorro,, Clipperton, California and Guadalupe. And now we are doing Guadalupe season. This trip is a combo, one of my favorites, because […]

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Captain Gordon Kipp’s lowdown report on diving with great white shark at Guadalupe Island

Currently into our third day of cage diving on this 10 day Guadalupe/San Benitos combo expedition. We’ve had beautiful conditions topside with flat calm water in the anchorage with consistently sunny skies all day. The cage diving started off a little slow on our first day but by late morning the whities had arrived and […]

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