What really made the dives special was the Mobula rays. On every dive we did here (5 total), we saw Mobula and I don’t mean one or two. I mean many, and the action was constant for the whole of our dives sometimes.
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On the other dives we were watching sea lions and the fish life that has definitely been showing the effect of protecting this as a park. Snappers and Groupers are much bigger and in larger groups. We are also seeing much more of the grown up Bumphead parrot fish than ever before. Two days in the Sea of Cortez with flat sea and a different sea than where we are going, a very rich “Fishy sea.”
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As Larry implemented the tradition of end of season, all the crew gather on the swim step of the boat and jump in the water with our uniforms on. It’s been a great season and an amazing way to finish it, Several mantas, tiger sharks, huge tunas, wahoos, silvertips, all the whitetips, and Roca. Magic […]
Read MoreHow was your dive with the mantas at the boiler? Fantastic! – Fawn. Today we had awesome day at Roca been surrounded by silky sharks, white tips sharks, silver tips, Galapagos and hammerhead sharks swam between a lot schools of jacks, tuna, black snappers, palometas and wahoo’s, so our guests were not bored for even […]
Read MoreIt was my first day of working as a deckhand on the Nautilus Explorer and my very first (and long anticipated) dive with great white sharks. I spent the day painting and scraping and generally making the boat ship shape while lending a hand to the divemasters and other crew. By the time the […]
Read MoreWhen you couple together the Big female and curious male White Sharks along with four cages loaded with guests from sunrise to sundown, the Ship is vibrant. There is nothing better than to greet a guest as they surface from the cage. Its all about the smiles grinning from ear to ear and […]
Read MoreI came aboard the Nautilus Explorer as a deckhand expecting the typical deckhand duties; cleaning, scrubbing, and making the Explorer look beautiful! But when I heard that I might have the chance to act as divemaster for one trip I was almost jumping with joy! I’m onto my second day as acting divemaster now and […]
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