The 116' dive liveaboard ship Nautilus Explorer visits Socorro Island and the Revillagigedo Archipelago every winter and we are really pleased to work with this fine operation in offering a "Light and Motion Socorro demo trip" to our valued clients. Mike Lever, Captain of the Nautilus, explained to us that throughout the year he and his team offer diving from "icebergs to mantas".

Their summer season is spent exploring Alaska and British Columbia, diving with giant pacific octopus, wolfeels, sealions and the incredibly prolific invertebrate life that the area is famous for as well as whale watching, climbing onto icebergs, viewing spectacular calving glaciers and doing lots of shore expeditions. In the fall, the vessel then voyages down to visit the white sharks of Isla Guadalupe before continuing on to the Sea of Cortez.

The majority of their winter season is spent diving the offshore and remote volcanic archipelago of which Socorro Island is the most famous. This is where you can truly get up close and more intimate with giant mantas than you ever thought possible. The photography opportunities are endless. You will also see silky, galapagos, silver tip, hammerhead and white tip reef sharks, jacks, wahoo, tuna, turtles, dolphins and a surprising amount of macro life.. If you are lucky, you might even encounter a tiger shark, whaleshark or have an inwater encounter with humpback whales.

The Nautilus is noted for being exceptionally camera friendly with both PC and Mac computers with card readers, Photoshop and IPhoto set up in the main salon and networked to guests laptops, a large plasma TV with DVD, CD, SVideo, RCA and computer inputs available, E-6 processing, a slide projector, rental D-100's in Titan housings available and a crew who are truly interested in photography. Interested divers should check out the Captain's Log at www.nautilusexplorer.com