Dancing with giant mantas at San Benedicto

Location: The Canyon and The Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Baja California, Mexico Back again in to the Canyon divesite at San Benedicto Island and our checkout dive started with watching hammerhead sharks at the cleaning station.  We had several sightings of small groups of 3-5 hammerhead sharks slowly swimming around in circles. Under the Nautilus […]

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High expectations but nothing at the Boiler.

Location: 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 […]

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Dolphins, giant manta and big school of hammerhead sharks.

Location: The Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico We are coming back to San Benedicto Island starting at the Canyon. The water is like oil, just flat. getting to the anchorsite we get welcomed by dolphins.  Down on the cleaning station we got hammerhead sharks every where. In a moment I dont know where to […]

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Dolphin mother feeding her baby with stolen fish.

Location: 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 […]

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Welcomed by a giant manta

Location: The Canyon, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos We anchored up at the Canyon on San Benedicto Island and looking in to the water it was not crystal clear so the mood went down a bit. For those divers that swam to the cleaning station, a big female hammerhead shark passed just a couple of meters […]

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Giant mantas and hammerhead sharks at San Benedicto Island

Location: The Canyon,  San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos, Mexico Well here we are once again off San Benedicto island in the Revillagigedo archipelago, having just wrapped the first day of diving with our new guests! The run down from Cabo San Lucas was pleasant and uneventful, with the occasional humpback whale sighting breaking up the endless […]

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Sun-soaked silky smooth crossing to Socorro Island

Location: 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 […]

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