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Giant Manta Identification, Photo by Miguel Ortiz

Giant Manta Identification in the Revillagigedo Archipelago

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-07-23
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By Nautilus Guests on July 23rd, 2018 in Citizen Science, Guests, Socorro

I worked with giant manta identification to differentiate each individual, and thus evaluate their population. This helps to obtain important information including how many individuals are in the biosphere reserve, how many mantas are present every season and if there are new mantas every season. It also includes which islands attract more mantas, how many females and males are there, and how the mantas move between the islands.

A Week on the UnderSea in the Sea of Cortez

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2018-06-22
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By Nautilus Crew on June 22nd, 2018 in Crew, Guests, Sea of Cortez

A never-ending highway of fish! A fish soup or a snowstorm of fish! Thousands and thousands, Creole fish, Jacks, fusiliers, gaftails pompanos, spotted nose snappers, we saw a couple of huge 5 foot Pacific dog snappers and thousands of Bonitos hunting.

Tags electric rays, green turtle, jacks, la reina, machete fish, Mantas, moray eels, pufferfish, sea lions, Sea of Cortez, stingrays, triggerfish, UnderSea

Zen-Like Bluewater Diving Looking for Mantas and Sharks

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2008-02-11

By Nautilus Staff on February 11th, 2008 in Archive

Silky, Galapagos, and hammerhead sharks made numerous appearances, along with large schools of yellowfin tuna, almaco jacks, trevally, and the innumerable triggerfish and reef animals that we’ve come to expect.

Tags almaco jacks, blue water dive, bluewater diving, drift dive, drift diving, galapagos sharks, Giant Mantas, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, jacks, manta rays, Mantas, Roca Partida, silky sharks, trevally, triggerfish, tuna, yellowfin tuna

Drift Dive Through Schools of Tuna and Hammerhead Sharks

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2008-02-02

By Nautilus Staff on February 2nd, 2008 in Archive

Almost immediately we were mobbed by an enormous school of yellowfin tuna swimming powerfully all around us, with silky and silvertip sharks thrown in the mix. After they passed, a group of hammerhead sharks made an appearance, allowing some excellent photographing opportunites. As we approached the island, a cloud of triggerfish burst into view, with circling silvertip sharks deep below us. The island drew by quickly in the current, and as we passed to the south we were given one last sendoff by yellowfin tuna and some curious wahoo, with some coy passes by hammerhead sharks for an encore.

Tags blue water diving, drift diving, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, Nautilus Explorer, Roca Partida, sharks, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, triggerfish, Wahoo, yellowfin tuna

Tuna, Hammerhead and Silvertip Sharks Galore but Where’s the Giant Mantas???

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2008-02-02

By Nautilus Staff on February 2nd, 2008 in Archive

There was a coldwater current running past the island steadily for the whole two days, and with it came excellent visibility and a great amount of hammerhead, silky, Galapagos, whitetip, and silvertip sharks. That’s on top of the friendly wahoo, the massive schools of tuna, the unique photographing opportunity of a moray eel wrapped comfortably around resting whitetip sharks, and big schools of triggerfish, big-eyed trevally, jacks, and other familiar faces.

Tags galapagos sharks, hammerhead sharks, hammerheads, jacks, Moray Eel, Roca Partida, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, triggerfish, tuna, Wahoo, whitetip sharks

Leaving a time capsule behind on Clipperton Island

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2007-04-22

By Nautilus Staff on April 22nd, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

None of us are ever going to forget the 1/2 million booby birds (and their incredibly cute chicks) that we saw, the 5 million bright orange land crabs, the amazing number of moray eels and their bizarre behaviour, the thick “clouds” of black and big-eye jacks, heavy schools of black triggerfish and rainbow runners, the endemic iridescent blue Clipperton angelfish and the coconut groves, white sand beaches and beautiful setting.

Tags angelfish, booby birds, CLipperton, clipperton angelfish, Clipperton Atoll, giant manta rays, hammerhead sharks, jacks, land crabs, moray eels, rainbow runners, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, triggerfish, whale sharks, white tip reef shark

Spawing surgeonfish at Cabo Pearce

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2007-02-16

By Nautilus Staff on February 16th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

Visibility was variable at the outer cleaning station, but we had good sightings of 4 different mantas, schools of tuna, a couple of inquisitive Galapagos and silky sharks, and small schools of scalloped hammerheads as well as 1 possible sighting of a 12 foot long great hammerhead.

Tags freediving, galapagos sharks, great hammerhead, hammerhead sharks, Mantas, pompano, scalloped hammerheads, silky sharks, surgeonfish, triggerfish, tuna tagging

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