Pelagic Feet, Socorro Vortex yacht is one of the best liveaboards in Mexico
If you’re into scuba diving with sharks, and when I say sharks, I mean Great White Sharks! You may want to consider diving from the Socorro Vortex yacht from Mexico.
The Socorro Vortex yacht is a hard liveaboard to beat for comfort and design. It’s designed by divers for divers! She’s a fast boat and as one of the Socorro Vortex reviews states: “Our crossing to the archipelagos took approximately 16 hours shaving approximately 9 hours off the average crossing time of 25 hours“.
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The Socorro Vortex of the Pelagic Feet, Mexico – 10 out of 10, 5 stars, review rated Exceptional for scuba diving
Mexico’s Socorro Vortex liveaboard Yacht is rated ‘Exceptional’ by scuba guests who’ve stayed on this Pelagic Fleet liveaboard of Mexico. Reviews include words like “Amazing experience”. “The crew was amazing”. “Easily one of the best vacations I have been on”. “an extremely professional, friendly and personable crew”.
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The Socorro Vortex yacht was built by divers for divers. She is part of the Pelagic Fleet of liveaboards, catering for up to 14 guests in 7 first-class, deluxe cabins. All cabins have air conditioning, TV’s and en-suite bathrooms.
The Socorro Vortex liveaboard has a dive deck and platform that’s been designed to make kitting up easy. The dive platform has plenty of room to move and has ample storage space.
World’s largest great white shark: 7 metre (23 feet) long ‘Deep Blue’ around Guadalupe Island
World’s Largest Shark: 7-Metre-Long ‘Deep Blue’ Believed To Be Biggest Ever UNSEEN footage of what experts believe is the biggest great white shark ever caught on camera has been released. The seven metre-long female known as Deep Blue stunned the world last year when video was unveiled of it dwarfing cage divers off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Now, diving enthusiast Michael Maier, 48, has released even more eye-catching clips of the giant female feeding on bait and inquisitively circling divers. Deep Blue, who is estimated to be at least 50 years old, was filmed by Michael in November 2013 – but these latest files were previously unseen.
Socorro Vortex liveaboard review – Key features of the dive boat
A nitrox only liveaboard where the nitrox is complimentary.
For those that are not Nitrox certified, Nitrox certification is available on board.
This is a Re-breather optimised liveaboard (special requests on full boat charters).
“What a life changing experience! Easily one of the best vacations I have been on. The crew was amazing and they worked so hard to make everything perfect! The boat is absolutely beautiful and super comfy! I did NOT want to leave!!!“
Recommended for: The crew was amazing, the boat was beautiful and the food was great!
“Just got home yesterday from the maiden voyage of the SOCORRO VORTEX! What a boat she was…beautiful, comfortable, and fast! She is very well equipped and complemented with an extremely professional, friendly and personable crew. I had a very memorable 8 days trip to the REVILLAGEDO ARCHIPELAGOS where I completed 19 dives in total. Got some great interactions and fantastic closeup pics of giant mantas, dolphins, hammerheads, and an enormous school of Jacks amongst the highlights.
Even saw humpbacks on the surface, however was unable to get up close enough to dive with. I have been diving for 30+ years and have 1200+ dives and have been a guest aboard about a half dozen liveaboards and the SOCORRO VORTEX ranks right up there at the top.
Not only with the comfort and the luxurious cabins, but the layout was extremely diver friendly. With separate personal indoor photographic and electronic work stations you never had to wait for space like on a shared camera table. Each station equipped with it’s own 110 v power supply. Two pengas or zodiacs shuttle you to and from dive sites from the mother ship. Guest numbers is 14 total so there is always plenty of room aboard the VORTEX as she is 140 feet long!
The top deck is a huge open sun deck, with a large jacuzzi hot tub and comfy lounge chairs for relaxing during your surface intervals. Overall to sum it up the people at PELAGIC FLEET placed a lot of time and effort to put out the best ship possible to provide the most demanding diver with the ship that allows you to be pampered, and to be surrounded with all the creature comforts to make all your dives on your vacation to be as easy as possible.
Everything about the VORTEX is top shelf from the ship, amenities, food, and the crew. Last, but not least the VORTEX is a fast boat which means less travel time and more enjoyment time. Our crossing to the archipelagos took approximately 16 hours shaving approximately 9 hours off the average crossing time of 25 hours!“
To read more reviews and to book the Socorro Vortex liveaboard to dive the Guadalupe and great white sharks or Socorro Islands with hammerheads and manta rays, please go to Liveaboard.com.
Great White Shark Trips to Guadalupe Island – 5 day, 4 night scuba diving trip with approximately 12 dives with great white sharks. Offered August through October each year. Ensenada, Mexico to Guadalupe Island. Cage diving on the surface using surface supplied air (hookah) instead of SCUBA tanks. You don’t have to be a certified scuba diver to participate in these trips. But if you are a scuba diver, you can dive in a submersible cage instead…if you dare!
Socorro Islands diving – 9 day, 8 night scuba dive trip with up to 20 dives or a 11 day, 10 night 27 dive trip. The dive trips to the Socorro Islands run from November through June. The weather is better and it’s the best time to encounter the large pelagics. From mid-January through mid-April the Socorro Islands are home to humpback whales who come to the islands to breed and calve. Whale sharks are also seen, along with giant Pacific manta, pods of wild bottlenose dolphins, large tuna, wahoo, large schools of jacks, plus the visiting hammerheads, plus up to seven other sharks species of sharks. Known for the best big animal diving in the world!
Socorro Vortex liveaboard charter with rebreather support for tech divers – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
The Socorro Vortex liveaboard is available for full charter. Plus the great part of chartering this top class liveaboard boat is if you’re a tech diver, it comes rebreather optimised.
Whilst you don’t have to use rebreathers in order to charter this liveaboard, it’s just an added advantage.
If you’d like to read more reviews. Plus if you also want to book the Pelagic Fleet’s Socorro Vortex liveaboard. But more importantly to scuba dive the Guadalupe Islands with great white sharks.
Alternatively, to scuba dive Socorro Islands with hammerheads and manta rays, please go to Liveaboard.com.
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Article written by Russell Bowyer who has been a scuba diver since diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1989. After his first dive he trained as a BSAC diver in the UK. He attained his Diver Leader certification with BSAC. He then went on to become a scuba diving instructor, teaching others how to dive and was voted as Diving Officer and Treasurer for the Saffron Walden BSAC club too. Russell has dived all over the world, including the UK, on liveaboards in the Red Sea, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA. Russell is experienced in all dive types, including drift diving, deep dives that involved decompression stops and recreational dives too.
