February 7th, 2010
The Canyon and the Boiler dive sites, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedos
Well, just another day in diving paradise! I’ve been on many liveaboard diving adventures all over the world and those who have done likewise will agree that It’s not every day that you can more or less guarantee swimming with a giant Manta ray, hammerhead sharks, humpback whales or a pod of dolphins. Well, that was before I had the privilege of diving on the Nautilus Explorer just off the Socorro Island.
This is a must for serious divers.
Miles Brough
Partis de La Paz mercredi dernier, nous (nous = 10 frenchies amoureux des voyages plongees) avons navigue pendant une journee entiere avant d arriver a San Benedicto. Premier jour de plongee de «readaptation» sous le bateau avec des requins marteau dans le bleu (oui DES requins), des mantas geantes qui nous tournent autour pour jouer avec nos bulles. Deuxieme jour, meme bebetes avec en prime des dauphins qui nous attendent au pallier. Troisieme jour, tout pareil avec des baleines a bosse qui soufflent au loin. Nous sommes actuellement a Roca Partida, un caillou au milieu de nulle part ceinture de bancs de thons, de carangues, de pointes blanches a gogo et de requins marteau. Outre les plongees formidables, le bateau est parfait pour la croisiere, l equipage genial et adorablement attentionne, nous avons meme une guide quebecoise rien que pour nous pour nous traduire les briefings. Ah et n oublions pas le plus important pour les francais : la bouffe et le cafe sont delicieux !
Day 2 of Socorro trip on Nautilus Explorer and I am getting the hang of it. Four San Benedicto dives today – first a very mellow visit to the Canyon, left the camera behind for a little break. Â The current was down and the diving easy & beautiful, with a visiting giant manta surrounded by four or five happy scuba divers. Â Then first dive on the Boiler with Neal, and a second one with divemaster Jessie – Team Force Fin! Current back up back at the Canyon on the fourth dive, and a flaky scuba regulator sent me up early. Â But I am jealous of the Barcelona group, who jumped in on three humpback whales s alongside the boat on our first Boiler dive. Â Must go, time for dinner (eat, sleep, dive ya know…)
Sharron Sussman
En dos palabras IM PRESIONANTE, we just jumped in to the water and 3 humpback whales were there waiting for us.  It was something mystic, The humpback whale with its baby playing around and the companion just behind them.  Now how afortunated I was, I just still can  ot believe it. It was the best celebration for my 200 dive.  If you google happy, you would get my picture back …………. oh!!!!!!!! that was in The Boiler.
Esther Salvatierra.
Tags: dolphins, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, humpback whales, luxury liveaboard, mexico, Nautilus Explorer, Revillagigedos, San Benedicto, Socorro, socorro island, The Boiler, The Canyon
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February 4th, 2010
Location: San Benedicto, Socorro Islands, Baja California South, Mexico
After a very successful dive expedition last week, on Wednesday we set out once more from Cabo San Lucas for the 220 nautical mile voyage to the rugged volcanic Islas of the Revillagigedo, better known as the Socorro Islands, offshore Mexico. The 24 hour crossing was not our most pleasant ride out this season with moderate winds kicking up a beam sea and causing a bit of a roll onboard. Thanks to our specially designed “flume tank” (sort of an anti-roll tank) onboard, however, the vessel handled the seas handsomely and kept the rolling to a manageable degree.
As usual on arrival at San Benedicto we were greeted warmly by our friends the dolphins who joined us for a “wake surf” as we approached the island. As we rounded the corner of the long dark lava finger jutting out of the ash on the south-east side of the island, we found ourselves in the lee of the island at a divesite called the Canyon, sheltered from the wind and swell and able to enjoy our first dive day in calm waters under a clear blue Mexican sky! Our very multi-national guests wasted no time getting wet and completed three great dives here before the end of the day. The Canyon delivered what it is known for with schooling hammerheads, silver tip sharks, and several Giant Pacific Manta Rays who wanted nothing more than to interact with their land dwelling, bubble blowing Scuba friends. Even after the divers had come up from dive two we had two of the Giant Mantas hanging around off the stern of the boat, not quite ready to say goodbye. Ever accommodating for our Manta friends several divers shed their now empty tanks and continued the interaction with nothing but a mask and snorkel, enjoying their company for another 20 minutes on the surface. As if friendly Giant Manta Rays and Hammerheads were not enough, two lucky divers got a glimpse of one of the oceans most feared (and probably misunderstood) predators, the Tiger Shark! A big, beautiful animal that is a rare treat to see and usually will disappear as quickly as it appears.
Whenever I ask a guest how their dive was and they respond with, “I could go home happy right now”, as they emerge from the water, I know it must have been pretty good! When it’s only their second dive of the trip that says even more about how special it is to experience this interaction with the Giant Manta Rays of the Socorro Islands. We won’t go home just yet though, we’ve got 6 more days of amazing diving to come.
Capt. Gordon Kipp
Surface conditions: Mostly clear skies, winds moderate (15-20 kts), swell 5-7′ but calm in the anchorage, air temp 75-80F
Diving conditions: Visibility 40-60 ft, current moderate to strong, water temps 76F
Tags: giant manta, hammerheads, mexico, Revillagigedos, San Benedicto, Socorro, The Canyon, Tiger Shark
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February 3rd, 2010
Actually, we stand corrected on that.  Socorro is only one of 4 islands in the Revillagigedo Archipelago.  The other islands are San Benedicto, Clarion, Roca Partida  – although it’s a bit of stretch to call the tiny outpost of Roca Partida an island!!  Socorro Island has been temporarily closed for security reasons by the Mexican Navy but no matter, the diving at San Benedicto and Roca Partida is hotter than ever as the photos following show.  All images were taken by guests on our most recent trip.  Questions??  Please don’t hesitate to email me directly.  mike@nautilusexplorer.com
Tags: Roca Partida, San Benedicto, Socorro, socorro island
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January 30th, 2010
Today was a special day!!
We arrived at Roca Partida in the early morning to humpback whales around the little island. Now, I’ve seen humpback whales before, but in my 25 years of diving, it was the very first time I actually saw one underwater. Â Every trip to Socorro and Revillagigedo is pretty much guaranteed to show us something good, something beautiful, something that makes you want to do every single dive, that makes me want to guide and work here. Sometimes it might be the playful mantas or maybe the sharks, but today we got to share a snorkel with a mother humpback and baby whale. After the first dive of the day, the whales came by the boat and took a couple of good enticing breaths. With just snorkeling gear on, we got in the water and much to our amazement, they stayed around. The mother just floated about 40ft below the surface and the baby would nuzzle up to her or dive, doing loops around her mothers mouth. Then first the baby and then the mother would come up for a breath just meters from were we were floating and go back down to their quiet play. This lasted maybe 15 minutes but for every one of us there the memory will last a lifetime and any words, even any image or video would ever do justice to an experience like this!
Peter Schalkwijk
Divemaster
How can I put into words what I’ve experienced this last week aboard the Nautilus Explorer! Â It started at “The Canyons”, can you say MANTA, MANTA, MANTA, MANTA, they were everywhere! Dancing with each other, four of them at one point, below, above, to the left and the right, they weren’t just interacting, they were playing with us. From there only getting better by the minute – Humpback whales singing and breaching by the boat (All thanks to BOB), my very first dolphin encounter at Roca Partida and did I happen to mention THE SHARKS: Silkies, Silver tips, White tips, Galapagos, and then of course those INCREDIBLE HAMMERHEAD SHARKS!!!!!! Â What an amazing animal, my favorite moment was seeing fifty to seventy of them at Peter’s (DM) spot at “The Canyons”. Â THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for one amazing ocean adventure filled with phenomenal world class diving, incredible sunsets, great stories, fantastic friends, and a WONDERFUL CREW that just made it even more SPECIAL. Dr.Dieter J. Moya.
Wow! Â What else can I say! Unbelievable Giant Manta interactions….today, 3 at one time coming to visit each diver individually as if to come by and introduce themselves to us giving each diver a up close and personal interaction and taking the time to pose for pictures. Yesterday not only did we have sharks but a Humpback whale mother, calf and escort in water encounter snorkel in blue water! Unfortunately our diving is done for the week but not to worry, we have left plenty for the next guests when then visit this magical part of the world’s ocean next week and many more after that! Special thanks to the crew of the Nautilus Explorer for a wonderful week and my fellow shipmates that made this a very special time. Â And, I have to add an apology to Dr. D for not taking a picture of him with the mantas but I think he was always overloading on Nitrogen playing with the Hammerheads 
. Terri Huber
Best day of the trip. Large groups of inquisitive hammerheads, interactive mantas – even a lone silky to keep us company during the safety stop on our last dive. Great trip, great boat, great crew. Highly recommended. – Reuben
It is hard to know where to start…we have seen it all in just a matter of a few short days.  They talk about the friendly mantas of the Socorros but you have to experience it for yourself! Not just a quick swim-by but multiple dives with multiple giant mantas.  Big animals are  the norm here not the exception.  What would you like to see?  Sharks, mantas, dolphins, whale sharks and humpback whales.  I was very happy to take one, I mean a couple for the team, when they said Whales all you heard was a splash and I was off swimming as fast as possible. I had the rare chance to see a mother and calf resting just beneath the surface and then see three whales later in the trip.  This has been a very special dive vacation for me.  I am very fortunate to have met an incredible group of fellow adventures and also a fantastic crew.  Did someone say whales?…….splash.
Bob Scarzafava
Snorkeling with humpback whales, schooling hammerheads and playful dolphins….and that was all before lunch time! – Kevin
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January 29th, 2010
Roca Partida, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedo’s
Today started with the captain saying he had a dream about whale sharks. Â Well his dream was my dream come true. Â My first whale shark ever. Â Today was one of the best dives that I have ever had, Â It started slow with no animal action then as my buddy and I started back to the anchor….Mantas. Â Two giant mantas circled Bill was able to snap several photos while I video taped from below. Â Then one large manta ray came towards me, closer, closer then it was right there. Â It slowly circled and came back again, I slowly raised my hand then the manta came over and stopped. Â It slowly sank towards me. Â The two giant mantas took turns coming up to me for some manta loving. Â Over ten minutes of very close interaction with up to three mantas. Â I have never had that type of close and personal action with animals that size!! Â It was the most incredible experience. Â Bob S.
How can you sum up todays dives? A school of hammerhead sharks, a lone one who came so close to make eye contact with me for a few minutes, 2 dolphins who passed so close I could have touched them, a whale shark overhead closely followed by a manta, a 15 minute encounter with a friendly manta ray and his buddy a silky shark. Yes, definitely a good day!
Tina x
Diving with dolphins, hammerheads and close ups with giant mantas from a beautiful boat anchored just off an incredibly dramatic volcanic island in the Pacific. Yeah, good day. – Reuben
Came on this trip to get lucky and sure enough, it happened on the second day. She was beautiful, in the water all by herself. She came straight at me. The only thing I could think off was ” Ikelite, Nikon, don’t fail me now… Snap… Snap… Snap… Ten beautiful pictures of my first whale shark. – Bill
Never had the chance to interact with giant mantas before. They would swim right over you and enjoy your bubbles. Their underside is much rougher then sharks by far. WOW WOW WOW what else can you say. Ron
Tags: dolphins, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, Revillagigedos, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, Socorro, Whale Shark
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January 29th, 2010
Location: San Benedicto, Islas Reviegigedos, Baja California, Mexico
At day break this morning, we pulled up anchor and headed for The Boiler at San Benedicto Island.  The mexican navy has closed Socorro Island for the next month or so but that’s fine with us and our guests because we think the very best diving is “usually” at San Benedicto and Roca Partida.  Maybe we should start calling these trips  by the correct geographic name of Revillagigedo Archipelago (of which Socorro is just one of the islands).  With humpback whale spouts on the horizon and leaping dolphins on the bow, we arrived to find great diving conditions. Everything looked perfect, very little current,crystal blue water, great visibility, and to top it all off a rainbow on the horizon.
The first dive was great! As the divers were suiting up, a pod of dolphins passed back and forth between the boat and the rock. They stayed around during the dive, periodically visiting the divers and swimming circles around a few of us. A very friendly giant manta also came around to check out the scuba divers. All throughout the dive, we all kept looking out into the blue expecting a Humpback Whale to appear out of the blue… but we only heard and felt their songs. Coming back up on deck, we could see their blows off the bow, but they were too far away.
During the second dive today, the same manta ray from before came in again. This time, the giant manta went from diver to diver checking out each one. There was also a large school of jacks hanging mid water making a beautiful circling pattern. With such a mild current, it was great to hang in mid water and watch the parade of fish species. A couple dolphins were seen at a distance, too shy to interact this time. With such great visibility, nearly the entire pinnacle could be seen from the surface.
Our third Boiler dive was just as great as the other two. The friendly manta, several small groups of dolphins making appearances, and a couple of Hammerhead sharks. Unfortunately, the weather had started to pick up a little by the afternoon and the viz had dropped a little. It was decided to pull up anchor and head for the Canyon for the final dive of the day. Â Back at the Canyon, we had beautiful blue water and a strong current. Not deterred, the scuba divers jumped in, went down the line, and went straight to the wall. As before, just over the rocks, was the school of Hammerheads we were all looking for. It was wonderful to see the size and numbers of these animals schooling together. As they disappeared into the depths, we wanted to follow them, but our time was up. One by one, we let go of the rocks and flew back toward the boat. While hanging at our safety stop, another manta came in to say goodbye.
divemaster Jessie
Underwater Conditions: Temp. 76 F, Viz. 50-100′, Current ranging from mild to strong.
Announcing the launch of a brand new Nautilus Explorer.  She is beautiful.  Shiny white just like the original Nautilus. Suspiciously familiar lines.  Accomodations seem a  bit more compact.  Still no head on the dive deck.   But looks really good otherwise.   Hmm, yup, she has a twin to dive skiff Inde on the back deck.  Shark cage deployed over the side. Briefing board in the main salon across from the bar.  Cappuccino machine in the dining room.  WAIT – it’s a miniature Nautilus Explorer only 1.5 metres – 5 feet – in length, specially built by our friend Juergen, master craftsman from Stuttgart, perfect in every detail and currently on display at the dive show in Dusseldorf, Germany.  Next public display will be in Chicago on 18 February and we invite everyone in the area to drop by our booth to take a look at this masterpiece.  Captain Mike
Tags: dolphins, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, humpback whales, mexico, Revillagigedos, San Benedicto, Socorro
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January 28th, 2010
Location: The Canyon and Boiler dive sites, San Benedicto Island, Socorro Islands, Baja California, Mexico
Two dives = Whale shark, Giant Manta Rays, hammerheads, and dolphins!
Our ocean safari started right out of the gate this week after departing Cabo San Lucas under a beautiful blue sky and a gentle breeze on the morning of January 25th. Around 10 miles south of the cape we came across two adult humpback whales slowly patrolling the coast, occasionally spy-hopping to get a closer peak at us as we cruised along beside them. Only a few hours after that we came across a huge pod of dolphins, numbering in the hundreds, many of whom broke off from the group to join us on the bow, cruising alongside us and surfing our wake as we continued our journey south. A long swell from the North West rocked us gently throughout the crossing, but with almost no wind to speak of throughout the journey our passage remained very comfortable all the way to our first stop at San Benedicto, of the famous Socorro Islands.
Dive day 1 offered us some beautiful weather and promising conditions topside, but in the end turned out to be a little slow by our very high standards diving at these islands. A strong current at the Boiler kept us to one dive there, and although clear and blue near the surface, the visibility at the Canyon diminished greatly near the bottom. Despite these less than ideal conditions a few people still managed to spot a couple Giant Mantas cruising by as well as a few scattered hammerheads patrolling the area.
What we missed on the first day, however, we made up for on day 2. We started the day at the Canyon, and before the lunch bell had even wrung I was being regaled with tales of giant schools of hammerhead sharks, whaleshark encounters, curious dolphins and ‘molestation by Manta Ray’ (his words not mine!). A school of hammerhead sharks numbering close to 100 stuck around for most of the day, passing close enough to touch at times. The Giant Mantas were as friendly as ever, circling repeatedly and hovering above the divers, then slowly sinking until pushing down on the diver, enjoying the tickle of bubbles and, apparently, the human contact. As if that was not enough, a whale shark showed up and cruised slowly by, passing closely to those divers lucky enough to be in its path, before continuing on into the blue. The action was steady throughout most of the day, with 3 of our 4 dives being “dives of a lifetime” for many of our guests. All this after only two days, wow!! I think I can speak for most everyone on board when I say I can’t wait for tomorrow, but now it’s off to bed ’cause I’m knackered!
Captain Gordon
Surface conditions: mostly sunny with clouds in the morning, winds light, seas calm, air temp 77-82F
Water conditions: visibility 20-100 ft, water temp 76F, current mild to strong
Tags: dolphins, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, humpback whales, San Benedicto, socorro island, The Boiler, The Canyon, whaleshark
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January 27th, 2010
The giant mantas of Socorro have always been extremely friendly with scuba divers in the islands for at least the last 25 years.  And the bottlenose dolphins have well, acted just like dolphins always behave by surfing in our bow wave and making the occasional appearance mid-water off at a distance.  And then 2 1/2 years ago everything changed when a pod of dolphins first chose to interact with our divers.  It happened twice that season.  And then the interaction with our guests happened almost half the time last season.  HUH???  Most amazing of all, the dolphin interaction has continued to become more and more intense and we have had fabulous behaviour – as show in the images below from our most recent voyage – at least twice  on EACH trip so far this season.   The only bad news is that we are going to have to rework all of our marketing materials to include images of these amazing animals..   Cheers from the BOOT dive show in Dusseldorf, German.  Captain Mike
Special thank you to Guy Stevens, Jack Connick, Shera Allen, and Ian Blair for their wonderful photos.
Tags: bottlenose dolphin, dolphins, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, socorro island
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January 22nd, 2010
Location: Canyon and The Boiler dive sites, Â Â San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Revillagigedo’s, Mexico
Finally on Day 4 of this trip we got our giant  mantas!   You never know when the big animals are going to show up on these trips.  Sometimes it’s right at the beginning. And sometimes it’s not until the last 2 days.   It’s not Disneyland and that is part of the magic.  The mantas come up at us after the second dive and started to pose infront of us just direct of the back of Nautilus Explorer. So it is very comfortable scuba diving. For some of us who went out exploring a bit further out we got sourrounded of a big school of yellowfin Tunas swimming round and round of us and like sitting in a giant well formed by tunas and from the bottom of the well a school of scalloped hammerhead sharks came up!! We looked at each others and clapped our hands of excitement. Lots of Wahoos this day.
Then we thought we spotted dolphins..? No I recognise that fin and blow , false killer whales!!   mini orca’s!!  A  group of 7-9 animals caught interest of us and stayed with us for a 10 -15 minutes. They just stayed 1 foot beside the boat and we could smell their breath. We could hear them squeaking and whistling and getting close  they made their clicking sound checking us out. Very impressive to see their curiosity on us, 1 baby was with about 2 m long. It really warms your heart seeing them but as well a bit intimidating with a big animals as the about 4-5 m long. The False orcas went and instead 6 silky sharks started to get in closer and they wanted to come back on board
Last dive the swell had picked up a lot a very long but deep swell un usually big for this area , it is affected by a storm that is taking place up the Californian coast. The visibility was so low that we did not even dive the boiler instead we decided to dive in a pocket of better viz beside the nautilus looking at wahoos , Big school of big eyed jacks and Yellowfin Tunas.
The waves where impressive! They crashed in to the west shore of  San Benedicto The spots where up to 40 to 50 m high up in the air!!
Next day we went on the Canyon and stayed here the rest of the day. Â First day gave hammerhead sharks ,but no manta rays. Viz was down cause of the swell so we tried a new kind of diving we done before. We went BLUE!! With a buoy and 3 teams staying tight to the line of the buoy. We had 44 min of nothing more then a few Tunas and Wahoos, and on the 45th minute the giant manta ray that was tagged last trip called Obama a big black manta started to play with us, So it ended great. An other group had hammerheads. Always fun to try different diving . The 3 dive was just great under the Nautilus we had two Giant mantas at the cleaning station and we stayed and played with them the whole dive one was a small chevron female manta that also was tagged last trip and so friendly she totally stopped. And a huge easy 18 ft black manta. It was probably the best dive of the week,/ last dive we had silkies and a couple of hammers, the visibility dropped a lot of the huge swell , letting up silt.
We are expecting heavier swell and Captain Mike has been closely watching and worrying about the weather in the shore office.   One of the biggest storms on record for this time of year is pummelling California which makes us to the decision to move up to Baja Peninsula before it get worse and save our crossing to be safe and comfortable and end up diving our last day up in the Sea of Cortez. Not much to do about it then do the best of it! We have worked enough time at sea and with experience of not challenging the mother of sea to much cause she can have temper!! I am personally curiouse of some of the dive sites we are going to tomorrow, they are new for me even living here in La Paz diving Sea of Cortez luckily we have our old time diveguide Pedro Cervantes who lives in San Jose del Cabo since long time. He will show us his back yard tomorrow. So loocking forward to that.     Divemaster Sten.
Surface condition: 30 C big huge long swell sunny , no wind
Underwater: 24C to 77F  Viz from 60ft to 10 ft A bit  of surge  close to bottom or underwater obstacles.
Tags: dolphins, false killer whale, giant manta, Hammerhead shark, Nautilus Explorer, Revillagigedos, San Benedicto
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January 20th, 2010
The Boiler dive site, San Benedicto Island, Socorro, Mexico
Best experience of my life, swimming with a pod of False Killer Whales….a once in a lifetime event. Â The island is beautiful, the Nautilus Explorer and crew are fantastic. I wish I never had to go back on dry land. I will be back, how can you stay away? Â Kat
At the boiler dive site on San Benedicto Island we had a school of a thousand plus yellow fin tuna all over one hundred pounds each. Ed
Some of us missed the false killer whales and had to make do with an awesome manta encounter in crystal clear water. Â There are are few things in life more amazing than having a manta hover a few feet away and staring you in the eye.
Sten spotted a large group of false killer whales. Â I never thought they would swim with me. This was a unique and rare experience for me and was one of the highlights of this enjoyable trip. martha
I’m just getting around to writing about yesterday’s dive at Roca Partida because my job as hostess on the Nautilus Explorer keeps me pretty busy!! Â Â I love it. Â This was my second dive of the trip at Roca Partida. Â We dropped down to about 80 feet to two hammerhead sharks synchronized swimming side-by-side toward the group. Â They were shortly followed by a couple of silver tip sharks swimming straight at us. Â It seemed like a couple’s retreat. Â We continued on around the rock until we found ourselves in the most enormous amount of fish happily swimming around us. Â The relaxing dive ended with my first (and fairly close) encounter with a Wahoo and a school of Jacks. Â This was also the first time I heard the humpback whales singing while I was scuba diving- a sure sign that humpback season is here. I’ve discovered the key to this dive site is to relax, stay in one place, and let the life come to you.
Hostess Eve
Tags: false killer whale, giant manta, Jacks, mexico, Nautilus Explorer, Roca Partida, San Benedicto, Socorro, The Boiler, Wahoo
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