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Diving Los Cabos

Cabo San Lucas Bay
Cabo snorkel couple.jpgCabo San Lucas Bay is a marine sanctuary and home to schools of triggerfish, angelfish, goatfish, parrotfish, and more. Spear fishing, collecting or fishing is not allowed, but you can explore as much as you like. If you’ve never snorkeled or dived before, most tour operators offer snorkel instruction, and beginner’s resort SCUBA classes that will allow you to dive, accompanied by a dive master, in just a few days.

Diving manta.jpgAt Lover´s Beach, behind the arch, you can snorkel, dive or watch the sea lions on your own, or take a guided tour. Just remember that the Pacific side of Lover’s Beach, with its strong currents and undertow, is not for watersports of any kind, so stick to the calmer water on the bay.

The arch area is also incredible for all levels of divers. Visibility ranges from 30 to 50 feet in winter to over 100 feet from April to October. For beginners, try Pelican Rock, Neptune´s Finger and the Sea Lion Colony. For a challenging advanced dive, don’t miss the Abyss, 100 feet from the arch. The Sandfalls, a 90 foot dive documented by the late Jacques Cousteau, begins at Pelican Rock then drops to an incredible 1,200 feet.
Snorkeling and Diving in the Tourist Corridor

Santa Maria, Chileno Bay and Palmilla.

Small and picturesque, horseshoe-shaped Santa Maria Bay is a protected marine park at Km. 12.5 of the 20-mile Tourist Corridor. One of the most beautiful areas for both SCUBA and snorkeling in Mexico, it’s popular with midday snorkel cruises. There are no services, so bring supplies and gear with you, or take a family-friendly cruise.

 

Santa Maria’s dive sites are well offshore. You´ll see guitarfish, small nurse sharks, stingrays, eels, sea fans, and many tropical fish. Snorkelers will want to go to Santa Maria early, before the afternoon winds come up.

Two kilometers east of Santa Maria is Chileno Bay, a gorgeous wide bay with a reef close to shore, perfect for snorkeling and diving with some of Cabo’s best dive sites. Chileno is easy to access from the highway and is another snorkel cruise destination.

At Km. 27, Palmilla Bay offers fair to good snorkeling on the bay between the point and the fishing boats. While visibility is not as good as Santa Maria or Chileno, this beautiful bay makes a perfect family daytrip.

The East Cape
Other fascinating areas for diving and snorkeling are northeast of San Jose del Cabo, along a stretch of coastline called the East Cape. At Punta Gorda, seven miles up the coast, diving the Gordo Banks is for experts only. About eight miles offshore the summit of the banks lie at about 110 to 140 feet, in water teeming with manta rays, hammerhead sharks, gamefish, bullfish, bulllsharks, and whale sharks

Cabo Pulmo
Snorkeling and SCUBA diving are fantastic at Cabo Pulmo, a live coral finger reef system and National Marine Park, further up the East Cape. Daytrips usually combine snorkeling, diving and kayaking. Cabo Pulmo has excellent dive sites offshore, including a tuna boat wreck, for all levels of divers. Snorkelers will be amazed at the variety of fish and marine life inshore. A word of caution: coral is very sharp and walking on the reef can kill it.

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