Amazing Experience at Socorro Islands – The Diver’s Paradise

There were Giant Pacific Mantas all around the cleaning stations, at least 4 to 6 of them. El Canyon was a sharky place with lots of hammerheads from the east to the southwest and a big tiger shark

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Merry Sharkmas and a Fintastic new year

Another magical trip sadly ends again. This trip was literally the X-Mas edition. The eastern Pacific Ocean had loads of gifts for us under the tree. Not one wish had been forgotten.

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Whale shark off the back of the Nautilus Explorer all day long and dolphins playing with her. Phenomenal.

Yesterday at Roca Partida was phenomenal. Had two whalesharks and everyone had multiple encounters on all their dives. One whaleshark was hanging around the stern of the Nautilus Explorer a couple times during the day. Loads of dolphins all day as well on all dives, hanging out with the divers and playing with the whaleshark. […]

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Giants Manta Wings Waving Goodbye – Great White Shark Teeth Grinning Hello! From Socorro to Guadalupe.

Divemaster Dan here.  Writing from Vancouver, British Columbia where I left the warm water and wonderful pelagics behind for “doing time” in the office (it’s actually really easy – I just talk to  people all day about how cool it is to have a staring contest with a Great White Shark from only 4 feet away, […]

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We finished the day strong with an adrenalin inducing night snorkel with feisty silky sharks – Captain and crew blog – May 23, 2010

The sea state was actually not too bad when I woke up this morning at 0530 for my turn on watch. A fairly long 6-10′ from the NW which we were riding over quite smoothly. I must have done something to upset the ocean G*ds though because around 20 minutes after I stepped onto the […]

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Return to the Sea of Cortez for some really nice diving brings back memories – dive guide log – 14 MAY 2010

So after finishing up last day diving in San Benedicto and Socorro Island with A LOT of hammerhead sharks at the Canyon and actually no big animals at the Boiler we decided to run north to the Sea of Cortez for a couple of days of scuba diving. . We met som decent waves on […]

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