Guest Fernando’s Report

Comecamos muito bem este segundo dia de mergulho. Logo que estabilizamos a profundidade, vimos as pequeñas covas cheias de White tip sharks descansando. Ao sairmos navegando, o primeiro encontro com Whale shark. Logo em seguida, um imenso cardume com galapagos sharks, dusk sharks, hammerhead sharks, silver tips… wonderful! – Fernando Avellar, Brasil

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The way the ocean used to be?

Schools of Galapagos sharks, Juvenile Whale shark being pursued by Galapagos sharks, Big school of hammers, silkies, silvertips, various species hunting balls of fish, big healthy schools of trevallies, many many shelves of whitetip sharks resting together, a healthy thriving system. I had to ask my self was this the way the ocean used to […]

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Once in a lifetime, to be repeated!

Here on the Nautilus Explorer each day starts with the normal dive briefing, go here, look for that, get out of the water with this PSI… but nothing can prepare you for the heart racing experience of being face to face with a whale shark. Looking this gentle giant in the eye. Nothing in the […]

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The giant mantas acrobatic circling

We have just finished our last dive at Roca Partida – wow! As usual, the giant mantas put on an acrobatic display, gliding over our bubbles and circling back again and again. A whale shark cruised by and we all checked it’s spots to see if it was the same one that we saw yesterday […]

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Where rare manta interactions become common occurrence

Wow. Just… Wow. It’s been a long time coming to get to this point in my life, career and journey of exploring new places, countries, the world and the ocean. Out of all the places that I have been so far, which have been many, the Archipelago Revillagigedo has been, and will continue to be, […]

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Besting 10+ years of diving

Today was our first day of diving and it was amazing! We saw many mantas in the morning and they came right up to us and swam around and around us. I actually made eye contact with one of them! And then there were the sharks….whitetip reef sharks, silvertip sharks, and hammerheads. On two separate […]

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Amazing check dive – Manta City!

After a day at sea travelling from Los Cabos to San Benedicto, we began our diving with an amazing check dive at El Canyon, San Benedicto Is. No sooner had we given the okay to descend sign to our guide Mirko and descended over the Manta feeding station, one of the stars of the show […]

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