Yellow-fin tuna hunting underwater and then becoming prey when false killer whales moved in on us – Captain, hostess and guest blog – May 22, 2010

More great diving at the one of a kind Roca Partida today, despite the wind and choppy sea state. For those of you not familiar with Roca Partida, from the surface it is nothing more than a rock, roughly 200 ft long by 100 ft high, jutting up in mid-pacific, hundreds of miles from any […]

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Overly frisky silky sharks & 50 false killer whales show up at Socorro Island. English y Portuguese. May 11, 2010. Guest and Divemaster blog.

Today was a bit of a strange day at Roca partida. The direction of the current was a bit unusual in its direction. And the sharks around the rock where fewer then normal. Though we had schools of tousands of yellow fin tunas exploding in all directions when we got in between them. And Whaoos […]

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Mantas, mantas, manta and loads of in-water time working with a film-crew at San Benedicto Island. Divemaster log. May 3, 2010.

We have had our last two days shooting at the Boiler at San Benedicto Island  and it has been a lot of time in the water.  Our normal day is to start to get a few divers in the water at around 09:00 and wait for the mantas getting in to the Boiler to get […]

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The baby dolphins is almost full size now and it seems like the mother is pregnant again – San Benedicto Island, Socorro – divemaster log – May 1, 2010

So up to the boiler at San Benedicto again for the 3 day. This morning when we where checking out the boiler we got saluded by a school of bottle nose dolphins. They stayed around for quite a while. One is a mother and baby I ve seemn for 3 years and the baby is […]

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Enroute from Socorro to Clipperton Island with a fascinating group of adventurers and scientists onboard + "what is a rebreather" – guest log – APR 13, 2010

We spent one day and one night crossing open ocean.  Some people worry that sleeping in a small bunk on a rolling ship with the engines churning all night might be hard.  For me though, its like being rocked in a cradle, and the engines  basically seems like no noise to your brain.  I really […]

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Very candid guest report and video from a recent trip to Socorro during which the scuba diving didn't quite measure up.. — April 1, 2010

Ken Kurtis trip video March 13/10 THE REVILLAGIGEDO ISLANDS (SOCORRO) MARCH 13-21, 2010 click here to see photos from this trip It may not have been the trip we’d hoped for but we still had a memorable experience diving the Revillagigedo Islands of Mexico, better known as Socorro. The trip started off on a semi-ominous […]

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Close enough to a wild dolphins to see it's beautiful eye and tiny spring of it's pupil – it's hazelnut redish in colour with a lot of kind of wrinkles – March 17, 2010

This two first days in San benedictos canyon was…ashy!  The vizibility went down to some times 10ft!!! we went around trying to find clearer water the first day, but it was all the same. Probably cause last weeks bigger waves that have ripped down the volcanic ash from San Benedicto Island which last erupted in […]

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