Volkswagen Beetle Sized Tuna?

Wonderful, supportive, extremely professional crew aboard, across all disciplines from captain to chef. Exceptional food, snacks, and cookies. Roca Partida is amazing. Every dive is filled with swarms of fish, various sharks, mantas, joy, and smiles. Diving here four times a day does not get boring. Looking at the majestic rock from both above and […]

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Checked out by a Tiger Shark!

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 […]

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This is my third trip to Guadalupe Island as first mate with the Nautilus Explorer and once again, it is an awesome experience!

I have been diving all of my life and never thought I would be in the water with great white sharks and loving it.  Truly the best place to see these sharks. Already starting to see the females as well. Along with the sharks, also have seen lots of dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, yellowfin […]

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As we rounded the corner a Galapagos Shark spied us. June 8, 2011 Guest Blogs Socorro on Nautilus Explorer

First day at Roca Partida.  We were very excited about this first dive since at Socorro Island, visibility was not so good. We jumped into the water and the first thing we spot is a bulky silver tip and a big lonely tuna surrounded by many jacks. Plenty of jacks and other fishes, pretty good […]

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A couple of Giant Pacific Mantas cruised slowly overhead to round out the day – June 6, 2011, Socorro and Sea Of Cortez – Captain’s Log

  We wrapped up the Socorro portion of this expedition on May 31st with a day of diving at San Benedicto. An early morning dive at the Canyon in search of schooling hammerheads unfortunately did not turn up any big animals with low visibility hiding anything that might be swimming by. For the remainder of […]

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Diving Here is Like Swimming in an Aquarium – June 5, 2011 – the Boiler

  The boiler today proved once again that diving here can be like swimming in an aquarium. We entered the water with schools of Big Eye Trevally Jacks in the blue around the boiler and thousands of colourful Wrasse’s all around the top of the boiler. Dropping down and moving around the nooks and crannies […]

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Galapagos shark swallows a 5 ft green Moray eel in front of our masks! Roca Partida April 19 2011

19 april 2011 Roca Partida , Socorro islands , Revillagigedo , Pacific Ocean, Mexico Same mother and calf humpback as last trip are visiting us! And a Galapago sharks swallows a 5 ft green Moray eel in front of our masks! Today we had two great dives with as well beautiful show of humpbacks breaching […]

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