Dive Review of Nautilus Belle Ami in
Mexico (Western)/Islas Revillagigedos

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Nautilus Belle Ami: "It's always exciting at Islas revillagigedos (Socorro)!", Mar, 2018, by Steven Cohen, VA, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 10630 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	The Nautilus Belle Ami is one of the nicest liveaboards I have been on (more than 50 of them!) I elected a single cabin (modest upcharge compared to other operators) the Nautilus suite. Large king bed, AC, private bathroom, large cabin windows. I had some issues with the AC (which have subsequently been resolved) and they had to replace my toilet during the trip. The food was generally very good especially breakfast and lunch. Dinners were a little uneven. I found the dinners to be salty, but after I mentioned it to the staff, they resolved that problem for me. The staff, from stewards and stewardesses to crew to dive masters to captain are all top notch. I have found this to be true on all of my Nautilus trips (10 to date). We dove 3 main areas: San Benedicto: viz varied from excellent to 25 feet. This is a volcanic island and there is a lot of ash on the bottom. If a storm comes through, or heavy wave action, the bottom gets stirred up and viz goes to crap. We saw giant Mantas on every dive here, dolphins, & 3 tiger sharks deep. We moved over to Socorro for one day where we encountered heavy current but not much else. We then went to Roca Partida where we had schools of Galapagos sharks, hammerheads, lots of white tips, and 2 whale sharks. The whale sharks hung around for all 4 dives. I also found mating octopus on the wall. After the excitement at Roca, we returned to San Ben where unfortunately the viz deteriorated but we still had good encounters with mantas and sharks.
Websites	Nautilus Belle Ami
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean, Galapagos, Cocos, Fiji, Hawaii, Indonesia, Maldives, Guadelupe, Mexico, Islas Revillagigedos
Closest Airport	SJD	Getting There	Fly to Los Cabos, Mexico. boat departs from there
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy	Seas	currents
Water Temp	75-77°F / 24-25°C	Wetsuit Thickness	7
Water Visibility	25-100 Ft/ 8-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	none
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	1 or 2
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals	N/A	Tropical Fish
Small Critters	N/A	Large Fish
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Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Large camera tables with plenty of space. Lots of charging stations available. I was never crowded. It seems the days of the huge camera rigs are over. we had a few big setups (mine included) but mostly point and shoots and GoPros.

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Dive Review of Nautilus Belle Ami in Mexico (Western)/Islas Revillagigedos

Nautilus Belle Ami: "It's always exciting at Islas revillagigedos (Socorro)!", Mar, 2018,

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Dive Review of Nautilus Belle Ami in
Mexico (Western)/Islas Revillagigedos