Location: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. We will be boarding our first Guadalupe Island great white shark trip of the season in just a couple of hours. I am totally wired and can’t wait to find out what the diving is going to be like when the Nautilus Explorer arrives on station. Unfortunately I will […]
Read MoreLocation: Ensenada, Mexico Excitement is running really high among the crew as we make final preparations for boarding our first great white shark trip to Guadalupe Island tomorrow. Everyone has been working flat-out to get the Nautilus Explorer turned around at the shipyard. We yanked and changed out the carpet on the main deck, dorm […]
Read MoreLocation: Ensenada, Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Well, the Nautilus Explorer arrived in Ensenada this morning precisely on schedule after a 6 day steam down the coast from Vancouver… We set aside 4 days for a “mini-refit” in the shipyard and then we are off on our first trip to Guadalupe Island to dive with great white sharks. I’ve been chatting […]
Read MoreWell, it’s a wrap for this year with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island. We are en route from Guadalupe to Ensenada, Mexico to disembark our last shark trip before steaming south to Cabo San Lucas and the first of our Sea of Cortez trips…
Read MoreThe diving is super hot this morning, with great white sharks continuously around the back of the Nautilus Explorer. The last day and a half were quiet with sporadic sightings (although our first afternoon was good), but the winds have died down and the white sharks are back with a vengeance.
Read MoreHad a flurry of white shark activity first thing this morning but it’s quiet now. I’m hoping for the usual dinner hour flurry with white sharks showing up “on their way home” between 1630 and 1830. One of this morning’s white sharks showed really interesting adaptive behaviour when it went for the shark wrangler’s line rather than the tuna bait – as we snapped the tuna out of the path of the white shark, the bait went straight into its mouth! Clever huh!?
Read MoreWe boarded the last of our 2006 great white shark expeditions last night and I am anticipating a 19 hour run to Guadalupe in a moderate sea. The skies are clear today and I am hoping that I might see the green flash at sunset.
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