Dive Review of Nautilus Explorer/Nautilus Belle Amie - liveaboard in
Mexico (Western)/Islas Revillagigedo

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Nautilus Explorer/Nautilus Belle Amie - liveaboard: "Islas Revillagigedo ROCKS!", Mar, 2023, by Bobby Munno, NY, US ( Sr. Contributor 24 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 12368 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	In January of 2022 at my wife's insistence, I changed our dive plans to the Nautilus Belle Amie for a March 2023 sailing to Las Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico, aka Socorro. Our dive buddy friends of over a decade just got off the vessel and immediately booked a return trip. Their review and my wife's desire to dive with them again were enough reason for me to act with alacrity in spite of my trepidations. I have long known of diving Socorro but always thought the "commute" as off-putting. The twenty-four-plus-hours-long crossing to the archipelago was always a large negative in my mind. It a ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Nautilus Explorer
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Bahamas, Belize, Bonaire, Cabo, Cancun, Carriacou, 3 Caymans, Cozumel, St Croix, Curacao, Dominica, St Eustatius, FL, Grenada, HI, St Helena, Iceland, Jamaica, LI, St Lucia, Mntsrrat, NYC, Palau, PA, Philippines, Poland, Roatan, Saba, Socorro, Tobago, Turks&Caicos, Utila, St Vincent, Yucatan cenotes
Closest Airport	SJD	Getting There	easy direct flight from NYC JFK to Los Cabos, Mexico SJD
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents
Water Temp	65-74°F / 18-23°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-81 Ft/ 15-25 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	maximum dive time of 60 minutes. no deco. dives. do not go "blue". do not touch the animals. (yes, they get that close)
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	> 2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	the Belle Amie has a large camera rinse tank, many underwater camera stations, fire-protected charging station ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Nautilus Explorer/Nautilus Belle Amie - liveaboard in Mexico (Western)/Islas Revillagigedo

Nautilus Explorer/Nautilus Belle Amie - liveaboard: "Islas Revillagigedo ROCKS!", Mar, 2023,

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Dive Review of Nautilus Explorer/Nautilus Belle Amie - liveaboard in
Mexico (Western)/Islas Revillagigedo