Location: The Boiler and the Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos Early morning just before sunrise I will admit that I sneaked in to the cleaning station at the Canyon on San Benedicto Island to try something that still haven’t given result. Finding the thresher sharks!! Last year when Captain Mike unfortunately found just recently […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon and the Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Our last Socorro Island trip for the season is a bit different than normal; we have a film team that only are focused on giant mantas and filming them just at the brightest hours of the day in their natural light and the […]
Read More04.07.09 Kirk OK Sten It’s Blog time. To Start, I’ll say that this is without question the most elegant dive ship I have been aboard. The Vessel was obviously carefully designed and appointed.The crew all friendly and professional.The food tasty and well prepared. I’ll copy some notes from my log later. In Cabo 04.05.09 After […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon and The Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Baja California, Mexico This morning we got up there were dolphins swimming around the Nautilus Explorer and some of us where already in the water snorkeling with the dolphins before the pre-breakfast snack/continental breakfast at 0700.The first dive was really good. We had dolphins, hammerhead sharks […]
Read MoreLocation: Windy day and stuck at the Canyon on this last day of the trip because of larger seas at The Boiler. The giant mantas were not as cooperative as yesterday , but hammerhead sharks where present by the cleaning stations. Around the little pinnacle we could hear a dolphin doing a funny almost couching […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon & The Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Our first day in the water for this trip, and everyone was looking forward to it after a sun-soaked silky smooth crossing! Weather conditions could not have been better for the start of this trip, and the transit from Cabo to Socorro Island was […]
Read MoreAfter another quiet night at anchor, we headed around the corner to the famous ‘Boiler’, a pinnacle jutting up from several hundred feet to within around 10 ft of the surface. As the ocean swell passes over the rock, the swell climbs and breaks, creating the boiling effect. Today however we had one of those […]
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