Pro & Film Crews
Custom Expedition in Baja California
Customized Service To Get The Shot You Need
Over the past decade, our team has worked and collaborated with various professional film crews, marine biologists, and scientists. We offer different packages for dive professionals, marine wildlife film productions, research programs, and more.
Depending on your needs and your budget, our team will take you where the action is and make sure you get the shot you need!
Custom expedition
Why to chose us ?
For more than 10 years, Baja Shark Experience has dedicated its efforts to working with sharks and other marine life around the world. Our passion for those iconic animals runs deep and we are committed to providing you with a rewarding and unforgettable underwater experience.
Our team is used to working with different kinds of productions and various groups of clients. We can cater to a single day trip or multiple-day private expedition and adapt to every budget. Whether it’s a very basic trip that only focuses on marine life to extremely luxurious adventures, we can arrange it for you.
Nothing will please us more than to help you achieve a successful project.
What We Offer
Do you have a special project involving sharks, Mobula rays, Marlins, Whales or Orcas?
We can organize tailor-made marine expeditions around Baja California for a professional crew or a private group (researchers, TV film crew, photographers, and others). Just let us know and we can make it happen.
Services provided during our custom expeditions:
- The full support of our qualified and experienced team for your project
- Private boat for your expedition (different sizes and configuration available)
- Full day trips (including lunch box, water, soft drinks, and snacks)
- Pick up Ford F150 4x4
- Paramotor with a professional pilot (perfect to spot marine life for wildlife documentary)
- Full electronics, GPS, radar, sonar
- Satellite phone
- First Aid Kit
- Ability to travel throughout Baja California
Tailor made trip to Baja California
What is the difference between our regular trip and special expeditions ?
Our half-day shark diving experience is open to all, from first-timers to experienced ocean explorers.
We offer the opportunity to safely interact with various shark species in Los Cabos. The special packages for professionals will allow us to travel larger distances and reach some of the best remote places to observe a wild ecosystem.
Our special expeditions will also give you more time in the water with marine life, more flexibility regarding interactions with animals (**depending on your needs and your experience), and the full support of our qualified and experienced team for your film production or research program.
Our team will strive to find the encounter you are looking for and will provide all the help you need to make your project a success.
Conservation efforts and collaboration with local communities
Our quest for unique encounters with wildlife will sometimes take us to remote areas of Baja California. Who better than local boat captains or fishing communities with decades of experience to help us find the right place and provide the support needed for successful encounters?
Since the beginning of Baja Shark Experience, our team has always tried to involve the local fishing communities as much as possible in our projects. The most effective way to protect the ocean is to directly involve those who work hard every day on the ocean. By fostering a good relationship with local communities, we can develop more sustainable programs.
During our previous explorations of the peninsula, we have established close ties with various fishermen who are now beginning to change their habits and have become a valuable aid to successful expeditions. By encouraging communities to co-exist with marine life, we can also motivate the people to take a more active role in wildlife conservation.
If your project involves taking us to remote places where the organization can quickly become a nightmare, our team will create the link you need with trusted people who have already collaborated with us.
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Baja California Marine Life and Conditions
Month | Marine Life | Visibility | Water temp |
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January | Mako Sharks, Smooth Hammerheads, Silky Sharks, Humpback and Grey Whales, Orcas | 30ft to 60ft | 72°F / 22°C |
February | Mako Sharks, Smooth Hammerheads, Humpback and Grey Whales, Orcas | 20ft to 60ft | 70°F / 21°C |
March | Mako Sharks, Smooth Hammerheads, Humpback and Grey Whales, Orcas | 20ft to 60ft | 70°F / 21°C |
April | Mako Sharks, Smooth Hammerheads, Humpback and Grey Whales, Orcas | 20ft to 50ft | 70°F / 21°C |
May | Mobula Rays, Mako Sharks, Smooth Hammerheads, Humpback and Grey Whales, Orcas | 20ft to 50ft | 74°F / 23°C |
June | Mobula Rays, Mako Sharks, Smooth Hammerheads, Silky sharks, Orcas | 20ft to 50ft | 74°F / 23°C |
July | Big school of Silky sharks, Mobula Rays, Smooth Hammerheads | 30ft to 60ft | 78°F / 25°C |
August | Big school of Silky sharks, Smooth Hammerheads | 40ft to 80ft | 83°F / 28°C |
September | Big school of Silky sharks, Marlins, Baitballs | 40ft to 90ft | 84°F / 29°C |
October | Big school of Silky sharks, Marlins, Baitballs | 40ft to 90ft | 84°F / 29°C |
November | Silky sharks, Marlins, Tunas, Baitballs, first whales start to arrive | 50ft to 100ft | 80°F / 27°C |
December | Silky sharks, Mako sharks, Marlins, Humpback whales | 40ft to 60ft | 74°F / 24°C |
Marine species in Baja California
Mako Shark
The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), also known as the blue pointer or bonito shark, is a large mackerel shark. It is commonly referred to as the mako shark, as is the longfin mako shark (Isurus paucus). The shortfin mako is on record as the fastest-swimming shark, capable of bursts of speed up to 18.8 meters per second (68 km/h; 42 mph).
Orcas
Orcas are one of the world’s most powerful predators. They are very intelligent mammals and effective killers. There are resident pods and transient pods of killer whales. Resident pods usually like to target fish while transients pods have a preference for marine mammals.
Whales
The protective bays of Baja California make the perfect environment for breeding and calving humpback whales. These magnificent whales usually begin arriving in the warm and nutrient-rich waters of Mexico around November and stay there until the end of March.
Mobula Rays (Devil Rays)
Lucky people who witness Devil Rays perform surface acrobatics rave about their experience. Watching these marine creatures make aerial leaps is truly an unforgettable experience.