Smiley Mantas!

Thank you guys, you did a great job in our first diving day. We are with my wife diving beginners and we didn’t know what we can expect. We dived with Casey and on San Benedicto, The Canyon we met giant pacific mantas with the smile on their bellies and white tips sharks. Then we […]

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A guest recounts her amazing underwater exploration while diving at Socorro Island…

Roca Partida has lived up to its hype and then some. The two day stay began with an eventful exploration of the ancient magma plug. Schools of fish including almaco jack pairs, horse-eye jacks and more white-tip sharks than I could count, and of course, the incredible giant mantas. All of this peppered with yellow-tail […]

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If you don’t like big animals, stay away from Socorro Island on the Nautilus Explorer

Where to start….  The diving has been amazing.  We started at San Bendicto with a Manta on our first dive at The Canyon.  After a couple dives there, we moved to the Boiler and it only got better.  If you don’t like all the big stuff, i.e. Sharks, Mantas, and Dolphins I guess this place […]

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I became a dolphin zombie today thanks to 8 extremely loud and playful dolphins

Boiler is the word for this trip! That Rock is  just on fire!! I became a Dolphin zombie today thanks to 8 Dolphins extremely loud and playful. I got pictures and will show them soon. Thanks Boiler. Great group by the way!  Seattle is on Board the Nautilus explorer and Larry likes to call them […]

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looking back on our New Year's trip – there were dolphins at the window as we were having breakfast

What a way to start this Socorro trip, with the calm weather and flat seas. We headed out at about 10PM from Cabo, straight to San Benedicto. I was more than excited just to see what was awaiting us for the New Year. The end of the year 2013 was excellent with the giant mantas […]

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Everyone was quiet, wondering where the humpback whales had disappeared to when an adult exploded out of the water in full body breach!

Our last dive day of this Socorro Expedition had us back at the island where we started the trip – San Benedicto. Sun was shining and the water a beautiful blue for our morning dives at the Canyon. A small group of dolphins were playing at the surface nearby as we suited up for our […]

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Guest blog – the manta dove straight at me and I rolled backwards in surprise – Socorro Island – 04 MAR 2011

Steve and Bud and Juan was our divemaster and towards the end of our dive we saw a giant manta and it played with us for about twenty minutes. When we separated, the manta would go to one of us. At one point, when it was coming to me, the manta ray dove straight at […]

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