A couple of Giant Pacific Mantas cruised slowly overhead to round out the day – June 6, 2011, Socorro and Sea Of Cortez – Captain’s Log

By on June 7th, 2011 in Archive

  We wrapped up the Socorro portion of this expedition on May 31st with a day of diving at San Benedicto. An early morning dive at the Canyon in search of schooling hammerheads unfortunately did not turn up any big animals with low visibility hiding anything that might be swimming by. For the remainder of […]

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Guest blog, and recent images from socorro

By on May 16th, 2011 in Archive

  How was your day? Two lovely dives today.  Sort of like a walk in a park. Erik. Every thing was great. The dives, the boat, the food and especially the crew. Marianne, from Switzerland. How was your day? Galapagos sharks, white tips, a couple of hammers. Many octopi out and about. Nudibranchs on the […]

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Perched on Top of a Small Pinnacle Lay my Wedding Ring!! I Found it!! Captain’s Log. Socorro Island. May 5, 2011

By on May 6th, 2011 in Archive

Its been a very interesting trip here on the Nautilus Explorer this past couple of weeks.  Any trip that combines a combo of the Sea of Cortez and Socorro Island holds promise, and this one certainly delivered.  The Sea of Cortez is everything I crave when I search for warmer climates that my homeland of […]

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The Young Sealions chewed our Thumbs and Tried to Bite the Cameras: Guest Blog from the Sea of Cortez – April 25, 2011

By on April 26th, 2011 in Archive

The first day of our journey we have seen our first sea lions at La Reina and we were very excited. We stayed for 2 dives, the visibility could have been a bit better and there was some current. The original plan to stay there got changed and we sailed to The Swanee, a very […]

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my best dive in my life! los ilotes – march 22, 2011

By on March 23rd, 2011 in Archive

Great Day! Saw a lot of playful sealions trying to bite in our suits, masks, cameras, imitating our bubbles and being childish clinging to our legs. Also some nice jawfish big groupers and so on. The water was quite cold but playing with mammals is totally different from interaction with fish, so it was worth […]

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DivemAster and Guest Blog – Whaleshark. Common dolphins and Sea lions in a flat, flat sea – Sea of Cortez – 20-21 Mar, 2011

By on March 22nd, 2011 in Archive

We started of this morning with help of a micro plane to spot whale shark. It took a good hour until the first big animal that the Pilot spotted was a grey whale instead. We still headed that direction and suddenly the grey whale got changed and we got a whaleshark instead so back to […]

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From Socorro to the Sea of Cortez we saw it all :: from seahorses to mantas, sharks, sea lions and even nudibranchs — dive guide and first mate blog – June 9, 2010

By on June 9th, 2010 in Archive

From South to North, Big and Small, We saw it all: Sea Horses, Mantas, Sharks, Sea Lions and Nudibranchs. Let us remember back a few days to those spectacular dives at Socorro where we left you off with our last Dive-Master Log. Our cruise North into the Sea of Cortez, was very smooth until we […]

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