Socorro Vortex | 墨西哥

关于游轮

Socorro Vortex是一艘豪华型的专业潜水船宿游轮，长34米，该游轮配有1250马力的MTU双引擎柴油发动机，其平均巡航速度可达16海里/小时，最高速度可达21海里/小时，这绝对是迄今为止世界范围内巡航速度最快的船宿游轮了，同时该游轮也是目前墨西哥最奢华的船宿游轮。

该游轮是一艘曾在加拿大海岸警卫队提供服务的船只，专为世界各地的恶劣海况而设计，经过全面升级后，该游轮于2018年4月起正式开始在墨西哥境内海域提供最高标准的豪华舒适船宿行程，并且保证绝对的安全。

Socorro Vortex 主甲板层上设有一间宽敞的室内空调沙龙室，带有一个独立的用餐区域，室内酒水吧台，自助小吃区域，休闲娱乐区域。休闲娱乐区域里配有舒适的沙发座椅区，各种多媒体娱乐设施，图书角等，可供旅客在潜水之余放松时使用。

位于主甲板层的室内用餐区配有5张可同时容纳4位旅客进餐的餐桌，船上的厨师每天会为旅客提供3次丰盛的主餐，以及餐间加餐零食，船上的菜单每期都不大一样，主要以美国和墨西哥美食为特色，厨师会尽可能地使用当地新鲜的食材。

除此以外，船上总是有新鲜水果，冷果汁，苏打水，现煮咖啡，以及热茶和冰茶供旅客品尝。如果您有特殊的饮食要求(素食,忌口等)，请告知我们的客服，这样我们就可以提前告知游轮公司为你准备好适合你的餐食需求。

Socorro Vortex 的另一个休闲空间位于上层甲板的后方，配有舒适的休闲座椅区，户外酒水吧台，以及一个户外用餐区域，甚至还有专业的烧烤设备。在这里，旅客可以与朋友聊天，一边品尝吧台的特制冷饮，一边欣赏美丽的海景。

该游轮顶层的阳光甲板为那些希望在墨西哥阳光下尽情沐浴，晒出性感小麦色的旅客准备的，而且顶层甲板甚至配有一个可供直升机降落的空间，以备不时之需。

该游轮的潜水甲板位于主甲板层的后方，不仅宽敞，而且还配备齐全，每位潜水员都拥有各自的准备台和储放箱，即便是在所有潜水员一同进行准备的情况下，也丝毫不会显得拥挤，每位潜水员都能有足够的空间为潜水做准备，以及有大量的空间方便潜水员挂晾潜水服，带低压空气软管和充电插座的相机置放桌，多个清洗水箱，蛙鞋置放处，以及两个带热水的淡水淋浴，潜水甲板的尾部配备了两个梯子出口。

关于客舱

Socorro Vortex船上共有7间豪华的旅客客舱，该游轮最多可承载14位旅客出行：

所有客舱均配有私人卫浴室，空调，风扇，带多媒体播放器的纯平电视，储物空间，充电插座等客舱设施：

1间 尊享套房：
位于上层甲板，该客舱是船上面积最大的客舱，配有一张加利福尼亚试的特大号双人床，工作桌/化妆桌，带有多个海景窗

2间 套房客舱：
位于主甲板层，每间客舱内配有一张特大号双人床，可根据旅客要求改为两张平行的单人床，带有多个海景窗

4间 豪华客舱：
位于底层甲板，每间客舱内配有两张平行的单人床，可根据旅客要求改为一张大号双人床，带有舷窗

关于潜水

• 索科罗船宿：每日提供3－4潜，具体取决于海况

• 哥达卢佩笼潜船宿：一般每日提供3 － 4次笼潜

• 潜水员每人都必须自带潜水象拔才能进行潜水

• 登船日 & 离船日当天均不提供任何潜水项目

• 所有潜水项目均提供专业的潜水向导领潜服务

• 针对索科罗船期：潜水员必须达到AOW + 50潜

• 针对哥达卢佩船期：潜水员&非潜水员均可参加

其他信息

• 高氧潜水：可以提供，但需额外收费
• 15升气瓶：限量提供，且需额外收费
• 循环呼吸器潜水：目前暂时无法提供
• 技术潜水：目前暂时无法提供 / 支持
• 潜水装备：可以提供，但需额外收费，行前2周必须告知
• 潜水保险：潜水员必须持有效的潜水保险才能进行潜水
• 网络供应：可以提供，但需额外收费
• 洗衣服务：目前暂时无法提供该服务
• 按摩服务：目前暂时无法提供该服务
• 船宿期间支付方式：现金(美元/当地货币)
• 船员人数：总人数未知，含2位潜水向导

Guadalupe Islands

The Socorro Vortex starts the Guadalupe season at the beginning of August and runs through October. Our trips are all 4 nights/5days with 3 full days of cage diving. Clients are picked up on day one at 10 a.m. at our host hotel in San Diego close to the airport and escorted safely down in an air-conditioned luxury coach to Ensenada, Mexico. It’s actually a beautiful, scenic drive down the coast once you get past all the Tijuana border traffic. This is about a 1 1/2 hour drive, departing Cruiseport Marina at approximately 12 noon. It’s an eighteen hour crossing putting us at the island early morning of day 2. We start operations immediately and day 2, 3 and 4 are spent cage diving with great whites. At the end of day 4 we wrap up and start back to port arriving by noon on day 5. The luxury coach is waiting to drive our clients back to San Diego that afternoon. However, because the border crossing at Tijuana can take time, we advise our clients not to book any return flights until late that evening or the next day.

Socorro Islands

The Socorro islands trips are only available November through June due to weather conditions. During all these months, giant mantas, playful bottlenose dolphins and sharks are plentiful. The water temps are 75F – 80F in November, December, and sometimes into January and also in late April, May and June.

In mid-January, February, March and the beginning of April the water varies between around 70F – 74F. The humpback whales visit Socorro during these cooler water months. You can hear these gentle giants singing on almost every dive and as previously mentioned, underwater encounters with these whales are increasing every year.

San Benedicto Island
Home of the world-famous “Boiler” where very friendly Giant Pacific Mantas congregate, San Benedicto is usually the first island visited on the trip. This island is the third largest in the Revillagigedo group at about 2.6 miles long. It has two prominent peaks, one that is very obviously a volcanic crater. The walls of the volcano are eroded, leaving vertical ridges from top to bottom. The crater is almost 1/2 a mile wide. At the base of this volcano is a lava delta that reaches out into the ocean. The north half of the island is green with vegetation.

One of our favorite dive sites here is “the Boiler”, a large pinnacle that reaches from the depths to within several feet of the surface. Its small enough to swim around several times in one dive, but is large enough to be a favorite gathering point, attracting marine life from miles around. Humpback whales, whale sharks, and schooling hammerheads can be encountered here.

What makes this site so magical is the congregation of very friendly Giant Pacific Mantas. They often greet our divers even before we get into the water and swim with us all day. Divers may observe many mantas who come here to be cleaned by the endemic clarion angelfish. They seem to enjoy swimming closely over divers and stopping directly above to experience the bubble Jacuzzi on their bellies formed by exhaling bubbles from the divers. They often swim from one diver to the next posing for every photographer along the way.

On the other side of the island is “the Canyon”. Here we commonly see mantas, dolphins, hammerhead sharks, Galapagos sharks and silky sharks.

Socorro Island
Socorro is about 30 miles south of San Benedicto. The island is about 10 miles by 9 miles in size and is home to the Mexican Naval Station since 1957. The island was discovered by Spanish explorer, Hernando de Grijalva and his crew in 1533 and had been rediscovered in 1542 and again in 1608 when it was given its name “Socorro”, meaning “Help”.

In the center of the island rises volcanic Mt. Evermann, who’s top is 1130 meters above sea level. The mountain was named after Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California in honor of the scientific exploration he promoted there at the beginning of the twentieth century.

It’s most recent eruption was in 1993. The island is covered with low order vegetation—sage, some grass and a dense growth of cactus that grows around the lava outcrops and lines. In September 1997 the island was struck by Hurricane Linda, one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded.

Socorro Vortex usually visits dive sites here which include the Aquarium, Punta Tosca and Cabo Pearce.

Roca Partida Island
Roca Partida is a small pinnacle located west of Socorro and San Benedicto, about 250 miles south of Cabo San Lucas. It is only 115 feet high and 300 feet from end to end. Its the smallest island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago.

This stony pillar attracts pelagics and large schools of jacks and tuna. Beneath the surface the wall drops straight down to deep water. There are many shelves and ridges that give refuge to the animals that hide there.

At about 40′ there are large caves where groups of whitetip sharks can be found sleeping most of the time. Depending on the current, its possible to swim around the pinnacle several times in the course of one dive. Other times divers prefer to just hang out in one area and watch the pelagics swim by.

Guests commonly encounter schools of hammerheads, whitetip sharks, Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, giant manta rays, dolphins, an occasional whaleshark and even humpback whales visiting from Alaska.