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Thanks to the crystal clear water, this is the perfect country to practice diving. You can enjoy beautiful reefs and marine fauna.
There are many 1,2 or even 8-day tour options to teach or practice your diving technique.
Generally the tour company provides the necessary equipment, the tour guides, scuba instructors, water transportation and stupendous food.
Dive Sites:
The Catalinas Islands are a group of different volcanic rock formations that emerge to the surface
off the FlamingoBay providing the special setting for our abundant marine life.
Huge manta rays, white tip reef sharks, spotted eagle rays,devil rays, schools of cow nose raysas well
as schools of jacks and grunts are among the most common species that divers usually spot in our rich
waters.
The bottom is mostly volcanic and the average maximum depth is 70 to 80 feet.
Visibility, currents and conditions in general tend to change every day. Currents, when present, are not
strong, divers drift with it and the boat follows to pick them up at the end of the dive.Visibility varies
from 30 feet to 60-70 feet, depending on the day and the season.
Shallow Dive Sites
Closer to shore there's a number of interesting shallow sites.
Always rocky and volcanic, these sites present more coral growing, from nice soft coral to hard
coralin beautiful colors such as green, yellow and brown.
The average maximum depth here is 40 - 50 feet and marine life is very colorful and tropical. Puffers
and porcupine fish are very abundant, from the spotted green puffer, to the Guineafowl puffer and the
freckled porcupinefish, there's a great variety of different ones. Also, parrot fish, butterflyfish and
damselfish, and a variety of wrasses like : dragon wrasse, spinster wrasse, chameleon wrasse and rainbow
wrasse.Moray eels come in different colors and shapes, such as the fine spotted moray eel, jewel moray eel,
zebra moray and tiger snake eel. Among the different shallow dive sites, these are the most.
Here you can find some snorkelling day tours or
you can also contact us for information and customized tours
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