Location: Socorro Islands, Baja California South, Mexico We just completed our last dive day of this 10 day expedition to the wilds of the Socorro Islands, offshore Pacific Mexico. This place never ceases to amaze even the most seasoned veterans of the area with the sheer variety of big marine animals to be seen and […]
Read MoreLynn: Giant mantas, Hammerhead sharks, and a Tiger shark! This trip is incredible. Yesterday was amazing, we played with a manta ray who stayed with us until we had to go up. (S)he kept circling around us, and got right up close, eyeball to eyball, and (s)he kept sinking down over our heads I and […]
Read MoreLocation: Punta Tosca, Turtle Bay, Socorro Island, Revillagigedos, Baja Sur, Mexico Ok, pick one: Sting Ray, Giant Manta Ray, Green MoRAY (Yes I know, the last one is stretching it a little). Still, they were all out in full glory on the final day of Scuba Diving this week as the Nautilus Explorer finished its […]
Read MoreThe second dive of the day got off to an unexpected start. Dive master Dan appears beside me wide eyed and excited pointing at something in the distance. He clawed at the ocean with both hands and made the Shark signal. I thought it was a Great White, but it turns out it was a […]
Read MoreLocation: The Canyon and the Boiler, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Baja California The intense blue sky ardour of yesterday gave way to a selection of brindled pinks and a lurid orange afterglow. The memory of this builds expectation as I find myself in the solitude of another pre-dawn bridgewatch at sea. Again, a fair crossing from […]
Read MoreMatt: Giant Manta, Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins, Hammerhead Sharks and a Whale Shark all seen in one 25 minute dive: Excellent. You can’t compress more good things into 25 minutes than that! For me, by far, the greatest dive of the week. Corey: Tiger Shark, Dolphins, Giant Manta Rays: just another crappy dive on the Nautilus […]
Read MoreLocation: Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico The crew sent me a satellite message today to say that the diving they have been experiencing in the Sea of Cortez is the best they have seen there in quite a while. We are getting reports of everything from tiger sharks in the Biosphere […]
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