Location: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico After a couple of days of white sharking that seemed to get progressively quieter and quieter, it was energizing to get “back on the money” and have the sharks back in full force today. Diving conditions were quite a bit tougher than normal as we had to deal with […]
Read MoreLocation: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico We’ve had an excellent season so far with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island with lots of awesome sharking. Unfortunately, as is true of all big animal diving, not every day is going to be awesome. Yesterday was one of our slower days and today was really slow. We […]
Read MoreLocation: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Our new submersible shark cage is wildly successful beyond anything that I had imagined. The last couple of days in Shark Bay have been tough with 35 – 40 knot winds and a 3 foot swell rolling into the anchorage. The biggest difficulty is that the current […]
Read MoreLocation: Shark Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico Dive day 2 of this trip and it was a doozie. The Mexican navy frigate is still anchored on site in Shark Bay and we are getting to know the crew. They are good guys and very interested in the experience of diving with great white sharks. […]
Read MoreLocation: 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 […]
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