We spent 5 days on the Nautilus Belle Amie sailing to Socorro and it was an amazing experience. The staff was great, the food is nice and the cabins are very spacious. We saw a lot of manta rays, hammerheads, whale sharks, Galapagos sharks, silvertips, and more. It is a wonderful experience and I recommend everyone to come and join the Belle Amie for an amazing trip!
Read MoreLocation: Roca Partida Weather: Clear Skies, Light Breeze, Calm Seas Yesterday we did our last dives at the boiler, mantas all the time were present, three mantas were circling the divers all dive long, and one group could see a small school of nine hammerheads, some white tips on the rock, a school of yellowfin […]
Read MoreYesterday we finished Cabo Pearce, third dive was very quiet, a couple of mantas were present for a few minutes and then gone in to the blue, one Galapagos and some whitetips, We are now in Roca Partida, the first dive with a light current to the N, great dive here, Roca is on fire today, lots of action on the north side with silvertips, whitetips, and Galapagos, lots of bonitos and yellowfin tunas, and the manta action was great, around five mantas were there all dive long, very friendly mantas.
Read MoreThe first dive this morning here had moderate current from the north and somewhat poor visibility, around 15 meters. But there were at least two mantas present and a group of around 10 bottlenose dolphins came in for a very close show. All of our divers loved it. Dive two had much less current and more visibility but was fairly quiet for animals. But divers all enjoyed the topography now that they could see it and the last group of divers had a large manta pass just below them on their safety stop. Everybody is excited for the afternoon.
Read MoreIn all, the divers have loved their first morning. We plan for two more dives here this afternoon and then we’ll have taco night on the top deck before moving to anchor overnight at the boiler, where we will dive tomorrow.
Read MoreThe first dive was conducted just under the boat, in Fondeadero, guests enjoyed it a lot as it was easy, had good visibility lots to see including Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, a big tiger shark singing whales, and three mantas, black and two chevrons.
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he last two days have been dolphins and mantas galore! In the last seven dives, we have been lucky enough to be joined by dolphins on four and mantas on four. Yesterday, we were joined by a group of nine dolphins on the first dive just after our group got into the water. They stayed and played for a little while, swimming in circles around us and coming within inches of us. After about 10 minutes they swam off, but we were not sad about the dolphins leaving for long as we were soon after joined by a manta.
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