Four final dives at "The Boiler" of San Benedicto Island June 1, 2021

The Nautilus Undersea made a nightime crossing from Socorro to San Benedicto, 59 km/37 miles to give us a final day of five days of diving at the spectacular "Boiler" site. We once again had great conditions and lots of Giant Manta interactions, it was a great final day of diving for a great trip. Here's several of my photos from our last day of diving, to see the rest, please copy and paste: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q5A6Y9sGNwYh6zut6 I'm having you cut and paste if you wish to see more because at present, the Google process for imbedding links is fubar.

Above, a Green Moray swimming down the side of The Boiler before Mantas showed up. Below, Guy Foster with an octopus:

Below: Octopus

Above, if you look closely, you can see that the octopus on the left, a male, has slipped a specialized arm for reproduction over into the female octopus on the right. They are mating. Below: A large spiny lobster on a "walkabout" on the Boiler before the Mantas showed up.

Below, Guy approachs the magnificent rock structure "The Boiler":

Soon we began getting many passes by Giant Mantas, the picture below is one intentionally bathing itself in the divers' exhaust bubbles. Sometimes Mantas get in the mood for a bubble bath!

Three at once!

I had one I nicknamed "stumpy" because he had lost his left chephalic lobe. He gave me several close passes, clearly enjoying my exhaust bubbles. On this pass, he completely fills my wideangle camera frame because he was only about 8 inches over the top of my head:

There are many more manta pictures at the link you can find back at the top, just copy and paste it to see them. Alas, all good things, like this wonderful trip, come to an end. The sun sets on our diving.