Dare I say, It was a spiritual experience that I’ll never forget. I’m already making plans to get to Socorro to see even more mantas.
Read MoreWould highly recommend the Sea of Cortez Liveaboard and would certainly dive with them again. My first time diving this side of the world not only is Mexico beautiful but Nautilus Adventures makes you feel right at home.
Read MoreWhere to start from exploring caverns to hanging out with curious and entertaining sea lions, to being greeted by a large manta, and swimming through HUGE encompassing schools of Jacks while they form a tornado- like a wall around you, the experience so far with the Nautilus on The sea of Cortez has been magical.
Read MoreMorning dives with loads of little stuff like blennies, gobies, jawfish, and a lot more, in the first dive while guests were diving a pod of a couple of hundred dolphins came around guests said they could hear them the entire dive but never saw them so once out of the water we took them to snorkel with the dolphins and they enjoy them for a while, loads of seals guests are crazy interacting with the seals.
Read MoreWe woke up today to more perfect conditions. almost no wind or seas at all. We made our first dive at Roca Solitaria–right at the entrance to the bay–and it went very well. Lots of ref fish of many varieties, as well as some colorful invertibrates. Both groups saw spotted eagle rays and one group got a glimpse of a mobula. It was a good dive overall. Dive two took us about 4 miles south of Agua Verde into the bay of San Marcial. There are some submerged rocks there in the middle of the bay that we wanted to dive. As soon as we got in the water I could hear dolphins in the distance but nothing ever came close to us. On the dive, we saw a few jawfish, one large southern stingray, and more cortez anglefish than I have ever seen at once. When we surfaced from the dive we were surrounded by dolphins, still at a distance, but everywhere. We got all divers into the RHIB and we set off to get a closer look. We had a group of at least 100 moving south along the coast so we got into a good position and put the group back in the water with fins and masks. Over the course of about 20 minutes, almost everybody got a very close look at them as they passed around and under. And there was some amazing acrobatics on the surface. I saw one leap at least 20 feet high over and over. It was incredible. After the surface swim we got back on the RHIB and made some fast passes by the pod, which by then we could see stretched almost to the visible horizon –I would easily estimate 1000+ individuals—and got some good bow and wake riders before turning back toward home.
Read MoreToday is a bit windy, is getting calmer as time goes by, blue skies with lots of whites, guests did pretty good on the check dive now we are getting ready to depart for La Reina, make two-afternoon dives there then come back to Carpenter rock to do a night dive, the check dive had loads of fish including a mantis shrimp which was the highlight of the dive.
Read MoreWe completed two more dives yesterday afternoon at Punta Perico. Both had good conditions and the guests enjoyed them. All but two of the guests made the dive and everybody came up happy with the day. We got underway right after dive three to run up to Espiritu Santo and anchor close to Los Islotes. Once we got north of Ceralvo the winds were blowing pretty hard out of the WSW and tossing us around a bit. I had hoped to get protection tucked up along the NE side of Isla Partida for the night, but there were enough wrap-around seas to make that unpleasant so we ended up anchoring about three miles south of Los Islotes on the east side.
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