Tag: turtles

NafNaf – the fearless baby silky shark

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro
Post date 2007-02-14

By Nautilus Staff on February 14th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

We all fell in love with a really tiny baby silky that had to be a newborn, and couldn’t have been more than 20″ in length – AT MOST! He was very, very cute and our guests promptly named him NafNaf. NafNaf was certainly a fearless shark, and he kept on getting in the way of the larger sharks to the point of snatching a piece of fish out of the mouth of one of the big guys! All of our hearts went out to him.

Tags baby silky shark, dolphins, humpback whales, manta, night snorkel, silky sharks, silvertip sharks, spyhopping, turtles, whale calf, white tip reef shark

Humpback whales singing underwater at Socorro Island

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro
Post date 2007-02-05

By Nautilus Staff on February 5th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Socorro

It was a sunny, hot and cloudless day. The visibility was great, we could hear the humpback whales singing underwater, dolphins were interacting with us, we saw lots of really cute juvenile silky sharks as well as white tip reef sharks hiding in caves in the coral gardens, turtles, loads of fish, aggressive Socorro lobsters, schooling wahoo and, of course, giant manta rays.