Close encounters of the best kind

Second day on the Nautilus Explorer, finally after 24 hours of waiting, we immersed for the first time were three dives for me to settle, after the long journey. For the moment the manta rays are waiting but I am confident that sooner or later they will show up, since all the other groups have […]

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The Rock’s Welcome

Today and last night we returned to diving the rock! Also known as Roca Partida, a jewel in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, which we visit every trip during the Socorro season. What a site, and what a fantastic welcome back “The Rock” has given us. It was sharky to say the least. On every dive we […]

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Undersea – End of Socorro Season!

As Larry implemented the tradition of end of season, all the crew gather on the swim step of the boat and jump in the water with our uniforms on. It’s been a great season and an amazing way to finish it, Several mantas, tiger sharks, huge tunas, wahoos, silvertips, all the whitetips, and Roca. Magic […]

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Checked out by a Tiger Shark!

Roca Partida: Day 2 Nautilus Under the Sea and its crew were fantastic at accommodating our party of rEvo closed-circuit rebreathers (they were able to provide complete rental tanks and absorbent, too!). The staff has experience with rebreathers, and knowing the advantage of silent diving, offered to drop us in as the first divers of […]

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Really looking forward to going back down again tomorrow!!

Our first day at Roca Partida was hard to beat (school of hammerhead, 6 different giant pacific mantas playing around with us) but current has been picking up today and sharks have been showing up on our last dive. We saw 5 different species of sharks in one dive: white tipped reef, silvertip, galapagos, silky, […]

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April: Expectations Met

We are diving in the last week of April and this season really filled up my expectations: today only, we dived with curious and interacting giant mantas, had hammerheads circling us, galapagos and silvertips coming out of the blue, whitetips sleeping under the rocks…it’s more than i can describe! The topography in the divesites is […]

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Life In A Fish Bowl Full Of Sharks –  divemaster and guest log –  Roca Partida, Socorro Island.   16 DEC 2010

1, 2, 3!!! Splash!!! As we descended along the wall at Roca Partida this morning, we knew it was going to be a great day of diving. The water was full of busy pink Creol Fish and Chromis surrounding the divers as if they were swimming in a fish bowl. Just below, the Black Jacks […]

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