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LOCAL SITES: Punta Gorda
| A great spot for macro.
Everything from white-tips to frog fish. Several varieties of eels in
rocks. One of the few sites with hard coral. Usually grunts, sergeant
majors, and stone fish everywhere. We have seen as many as
200
golden/cow-nosed rays on the site as well as sea-horses and occasional
eagle rays. This site is 15-20ft deep on one side of the pinnacle and
drops to 75-80 on the outside, with most of the life at the top of the
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LOCAL SITES: Bajo Tiburone
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This is a great site for
white-tip sharks. We also see southern sting rays here. There are some
crevices that house white-tips and squirrel fish. The top of the rock is
at 20-30 ft, making the safety stop interesting. We have sighted 500 to
1.000 mobulas on many occacions lately on this site. There are 3 basic
rock formations with sand channels between. |
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LOCAL SITES:
Virador
| This is a singular rock
pinnacle, 20 ft on the front side and 90 ft or so on the back side.
There are horse-eye jacks, butterfly fish, grunts, sergeant majors and
many other varieties of schooling fish to see here. We have also seen
the harlequin/clown shrimp here as there are several varieties of
starfish. You may see white-tip shark, jew fish and turtles too. |
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LOCAL SITES:
Los Meros
| This is a perfect place for
a check-out or refresher dive as well as a great local dive. You will
not see larger schools of grunts on any other site we have. There are
also eel, octopi and nudibranchs. If you want to go deeper then 40 ft,
you will have to bring a shovel. |
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These are located
approximately 50 min. to 1 hour from our dive shop. We have seen
white-tip sharks, schools of cow-nosed rays and huge schools of
horse-eye jacks, along with moorish idols, tangs, and many other
varieties of eels and starfish. There most times non anchored dives with
surge and some current. During the months of Jan-April, you will be
delighted to find Manta Rays with 14 to 24 ft wingspans. We have seen as
few as one and as many as 50 on one dive!!
 
Photo by Collin Rennison
Photo by Collin Rennison
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LONG RANGE SITES:
Bat Islands
These are located approximately 1:45 to 2 hours from our dive
shop. Here we go looking for the BIG Bull Sharks. They range from 9 to
15 ft in length, with some of them weighing around 2.000 lbs!! The site
is called Big Scare. The large schooling fish-snapper, jacks, rainbow,
runners and gafftop-sail pompanos are unbelievable. Our other sites at
Bat Islands also have these and more. We have sighted the giant Manta
Rays here many times as well as eagle rays, and occasionally schools of
thousands, yes thousands of golden, cow-nosed rays. There are
non-anchored and very challenging dives. We make a day of it and stop in
a wonderful area called the Refuge for snorkeling on the surface
interval. This trip is a must for everyone who wants to see the best the
area has to offer. Back
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