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A beautiful manta flying with its remora. Photo by Divemaster Mirko

Incredible Diversity in the Revillagigedo Archipelago

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2019-01-18
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El Canyon was incredible with the diversity including a school of hammerheads, a few juvenile silvertips, a couple of really big Galapagos sharks, some juvenile Dusky sharks, a few chevron mantas and 2 amazing tiger sharks.

A silky shark at night. Photo by Sandra Haessler

Sharks for Christmas at Socorro

Post author By Nautilus Crew
Post date 2018-12-28
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By Nautilus Crew on December 28th, 2018 in Crew, Socorro

We descended right down to the cleaning stations and were greeted by a school of juvenile silvertip sharks, 2 chevron mantas, a hammerhead, and lots of cool fish.

Large Female Great Whites Continue to Arrive at Guadalupe

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-10-31
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By Nautilus Guests on October 31st, 2018 in Guadalupe, Guests

There were a lot of sharks both at the surface cages and the submersible cages. Everyone was in awe of the massive females that showed up toward the end of the day.

Marine Biologist Miguel Meets his First Manta

Post author By Nautilus Guests
Post date 2018-07-03
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By Nautilus Guests on July 3rd, 2018 in Guests, Socorro

And there it was: a beautiful animal, a majestic MANTA, the first one in my life. My heart started beating fast, my breath was taken away, my eyes and mind hypnotized. The best experience of my life, I finally saw my dream in front of me, a moment I have taught about a thousand times, and it came true, I was not dreaming.

Tags blacktip reef shark, Galapagos Shark, Giant Mantas, jacks, marine biologist, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, sea turtles, sharks, silver tip, stingrays, The Boiler, Tiger Shark, Wahoo, Whale Shark, white tips, yellowfin tuna

Checked out by a Tiger Shark!

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Post date 2017-06-20
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By Nautilus Staff on June 20th, 2017 in Guests, Socorro

Roca Partida: Day 2 Nautilus Under the Sea and its crew were fantastic at accommodating our party of rEvo closed-circuit rebreathers (they were able to provide complete rental tanks and absorbent, too!). The staff has experience with rebreathers, and knowing the advantage of silent diving, offered to drop us in as the first divers of […]

Tags dusky shark, Galapagos Shark, giant manta ray, Hammerhead shark, rebreather, silky shark, silvertip shark, Tiger Shark, Wahoo, yellowfin tuna

If you can tear your eyes away from the big fish, you’ll find a vertical wall extending straight down for 200 feet with caves filled with resting white tip reef sharks lined up like sardines

By Nautilus Staff on December 10th, 2013 in Archive

Roca Partida as we know it from the surface is a guano covered rock extending about 100 feet into the air and about 200 feet in length, poking up out of the pacific ocean 60 nautical miles from the nearest island of Socorro. In the bigger picture it is the very tip, the last second […]

Tags black jacks, Cabo San Lucas, cottonmouth jack, creole fish, galapagos, Roca Partida, schooling hammerheads, silky, silver tip sharks, Wahoo, whale sharks, white tip sharks, yellow fin tuna

Captain's Log – Turtle erotica… I watched through the wheelhouse windows as 2 green turtles locked in a steamy embrace. Or maybe they were just cuddling.

By Nautilus Staff on June 15th, 2013 in Archive

We’ve just left Roca Partida and are on our way back in Cabo San Lucas to disembark and prepare for our next trip back to the Socorro Islands. The highlight of this trip was definitely the diving at Roca Partida. Our one day at Socorro Island was a little disappointing as far as big animals […]

Tags Cabo San Lucas, dolphins, galapagos, hammerheads, manta, Roca Partida, silkies, turtle, Wahoo, yellow fin tuna

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