Dive Review of Nautilus Adventures in
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Nautilus Adventures: "Ocean and Land", Aug, 2024, by Daniel Turgeon, QC, CA ( 1 report). Report 13186.
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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	Land and Ocean My daughter Melanie, the aspiring wildlife photographer and documentarian, was returning to university in a few weeks. After a long summer of working, I decided that it was time for her to experience not just her first liveaboard trip, but also trekking into the rainforest of Costa Rica’s wild southern west coast. Doing some research, I discovered that Nautilus Adventures had an expedition that combined both diving and hiking. Our departure from Montreal was on a direct flight to Costa Rica, which, five and a half hours later, landed at San Jose’s Juan Santamaria airport. Everything went very well and after getting our gear and clearing customs we overnighted at the beautiful Marriott Hacienda Belen hotel where our shuttle was to pick us up the next day for the journey to Golfito where our ship the Nautilus Explorer was moored. We awoke to a glorious morning and after breakfast met with our Nautilus representative Anna who informed us that due to traffic conditions our shuttle would be delayed. The drive to Golfito is approximately five and a half hours. To fly takes only an hour, but since these are smaller planes there are luggage restrictions. With all our dive and personal gear, we didn’t fit the bill. So, we decided to bide our time to wander the hotel’s grounds which were spectacular. We got to witness a teaser of what awaited us on this trip. We observed and photographed crimson fronted parakeets, ruddy quail-doves, boat-billed flycatchers, white throated magpie jays, and great-tailed grackles. Between the foliage a large colourful orb-weaver spider also posed elegantly for us in the center of it’s web waiting patiently for its next meal. The shuttle took us along the western coast through all the many surfing destinations and plantations. We arrived where the Nautilus Explorer was docked to be greeted with welcoming smiles and glasses of champaign. Our luggage was brought to our assigned cabins and the dive gear was taken to our already waiting cylinders. I had been on this ship before on a trip to Socorro where I had the pleasure of being in a state room. This time we were below deck in our own cabin. The two beds we had were quite comfortable with a sink ni ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Nautilus Adventures
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Canada (Great Lakes and both coasts), Cayman isles, Bonaire, Florida, Cozumel, Socorro, Cocos, Hawaii, Roatan, Belize, Bahamas,
Closest Airport	Juan Santamaria / San José	Getting There	Direct, non/stop flights from Montreal
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy, cloudy	Seas	choppy, currents
Water Temp	80-76°F / 27-24°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	0-60 Ft/ 0-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Nitrox profiles, computer diving only, do not go blue
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	Great setup table on the dive deck with plenty of charging ports. We also had o ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Nautilus Adventures in Costa Rica/Cano Island

Nautilus Adventures: "Ocean and Land", Aug, 2024,

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Dive Review of Nautilus Adventures in
Costa Rica/Cano Island