Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a small country in Central America that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean Sea within 100 miles (160 km). The country attracts half a million tourists a year, mostly Americans. It is a crowdpuller for adventurous vacationists, like surfers, sports fishers and rafters. We obviously come here to dive. The division of the two oceans is reflected in the diving possibilities in the country. The sites at the Pacific coast is characterized by the huge wealth of animal species. The sites at the Caribbean coast are special because of the wonderful reef formations. This east coast does not yet have such a good infrastructure for scuba divers as the more developed west coast.

Bahia Drake

Eco lodges at the end of the world

Drake Bay is a small but well-known town in one of the most inaccessible regions of Costa Rica. You can only get there by boat and cell phones are mostly out of range. From here you can dive around Caño-island.

Playa del Coco

Touristic hotspot for water sports and nightlife

Playa del Coco lies on a horseshoe-shaped bay, in which any thinkable water sport can be practised. Of all possibilities, the diving tourism is the most popular.

Guanacaste

Sun, the ocean, a bay and lush forrest

Guanacaste is a well-known region for both tourism in Costa Rica. Along with nice scuba diving opportunities, you will find lots of other possibilities for activities and excursions like jungle trekkings, rafting and surfing.

Puerto Viejo

Reggae, spicy aromas and paradise-like beaches

Puerto Viejo stands for sun, sea, sand and parties. Diving tourism is not very big here but that doesn’t make the diving any less attractive.

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Yucatán

Cave diving in a huge system of underground rivers

Under the peninsula Yucatán is an enormous, thousands year-old cave system. You can enter the spotless water on places where the roof has collapsed, so-called Cenotes.

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About Cancún
Yucatán is a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the street of Yucatán and the Caribbean Sea. The largest part falls under Mexico, a small part under Belize and Guatemala. Yucatán is visited by tourists because the remains of the ancient Maya civilisation and the white beaches. The famous seaside resort on Yucatán is the city Cancún, situated at a bay in the northeast.

Cave diving in Yucatán
Because of tropical rainstorms and volcano outbursts the soil of limestone has been eroded. Thus, enormous chambers and passages full of water came into being. In some places the ceiling has collapsed, so the clear water of the underground rivers became visible and reachable. Such a place is called a cenote. In Yucatán thousands of these cenotes have been discovered already. The most famous, Nohoch Nah Chich, gives access to the largest underground cave system in the world.

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