Magical manta encounter

Five minutes into the dive, passing through in the Blue, three massive hammerhead sharks! Another one in the sandy bottom at 25mts, two Manta rays, two big Galapagos sharks, and two Silver tip sharks.

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Socorro’s best marine life & “Mantastic” Safety Stops

Between the impressive passes around Manta Rock and “mantastic” safety stops in the blue, no diver was left out on the manta sightings for our first day.

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Trip re-cap & checklist

This trip as an overall was fantastic. Weather conditions were great everyday. Temperature off the water was 26c in most of the dives and visibility was around 20m to even 40m. If we use a fauna checklist this trip would check most of the amazing animals that the Revillagigedo Islands offer. Mantas were around in […]

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Guest Neil's San Benedicto Report!

After a smooth ride out to San Benedicto, we chose the canyon as our first dive. Easy diving just from the Nautilus Under Sea’s dive deck. We jumped in and straight away got to see what we came for. A giant manta showed up 5 minutes into the dive, we saw white tip sharks, some […]

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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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Special guest –  Dr. Ingrid Visser – world renowned whale expert  –  Captain and crew blog – FEB 18, 2011

I recieved a huge Welcome Back to the Nautilus  Explorer upon my return from holidays!  It was great to hug the crew and meet new friends.  Even our departure from the beautiful beaches of Cabo showed us something new.  An anchoring cruiseship, a massive yacht with a helicopter on its back deck and about 5 […]

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