From the Sea of Cortez to Socorro

After a relatively calm navigation, we arrived at San Benedicto not knowing what to expect given the two hurricanes that hit the islands in two weeks. But everything was there just as we left it: a playful pod of dolphins, four mantas, some isolated hammerheads and Galapagos sharks to make a great start in Revillagigedo!

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A Week on the UnderSea in the Sea of Cortez

A never-ending highway of fish! A fish soup or a snowstorm of fish! Thousands and thousands, Creole fish, Jacks, fusiliers, gaftails pompanos, spotted nose snappers, we saw a couple of huge 5 foot Pacific dog snappers and thousands of Bonitos hunting.

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The Sea of Cortez is Bursting with Life

We had three beautiful dives with mating octopus, seahorse, nudibranchs, scorpion fish, morays and lovely schools of grunts, snapper and surgeonfish also. Not to mention a couple of playful sea lions to brighten our day!

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The Great Big White Sharks of the Season

The first great big white sharks of the season have shown up at Guadalupe Island. Each of these big mommas was 16 feet with enormous girth. Captain Gordon on our beautiful Nautilus Belle Amie reports 7 individual sharks cruising around the ship this morning including the first of these big mommas. It is very interesting […]

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The Lonely Rock: "La Reyna"

Sam says, “Don’t pass on the second dive…You might regret it.” Thanks to Sam, I went for the dive and had an amazing time. – Laura, Florida La Reyna With bad weather around the cape last night, we decided to come up into the Sea of Cortez until it settled down a bit. Our first […]

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