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Diving in Puerto Rico
offered by supplier M05296 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 1
day(s)
Group Size: 4
- 20
people
Destination:
Puerto Rico
Category: Scuba diving operators
Specialty:
Dive boat, Diving instructor, Scuba diving center
Season: January - December
Min Price: 89 US Dollar (USD) per person
Max Price: 150 US Dollar (USD) per person
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Our Dive Center is your scuba & snorkel gateway to the aquatic world of the "Enchanted Island" known as Puerto Rico, and it's Spanish Virgin Islands! Whether you are interested in underwater guided tours, seeking your first Scuba Diving experience, looking to advance beyond your current certification level, or just want to snorkel about in our warm Caribbean waters-, our Dive Center is a great destination!
The sites that we dive or snorkel are just a short boat trip offshore Fajardo, and are made up of an archipelago of small uninhabited coral island atolls, so that our captain is able to anchor leeward off of the little islands making for calm sea conditions, interesting coral reefs and abundant sea life!
Fajardo has beginning to intermediate dive spots, mostly consisting of shallower dives from 30 - 80 feet. The dive spots are coral reefs around small coral atoll islands. Visibility while not ever truly predictable generally ranges from 20 - 75 ft. For the morning 2 tank trip we need the divers to be at the dive shop in Fajardo at 08:00 and the boat leaves at 08:30 and returns back to the marina at about 12:30. For the afternoon 1 tank trip we need the divers to be at the dive shop in Fajardo at 1:30 pm and the boat leaves at 2:00 pm and returns to the marina about 4:30.
We are proud to be a 5-Star member of PADI, the worlds largest diving organization, where diver safety is of the utmost concern and our Professional Dive Staff are 100% PADI Certified. Our dive boats are inspected and licensed by the United States Coast Guard, the Puerto Rico Public Service Commission, and we are fully endorsed by the Puerto Rico Tourism Department. Your aquatic adventure, with Sea Ventures Dive Center, will be a safe fun time and what diving is all about!
* Fajardo Dive sites:
- Pyramid: Depth: 30 feet: When Discover Scuba and snorkelers dive through the current-free depths, they view a coral rise teeming with breathtaking schools of small fishes, anemones and small reef lobsters.
- Sandslide: Depth: 15 to 70 feet: Coral, coral, everywhere! Immerse yourself in corals ranging from sheet coral to brain coral, and from clusters of thumb coral to elkhorn coral, as you surround yourself with sea life including manatee, dolphins, green and hawksbill turtles, barracudas, groupers, lobsters, conches, large hermit crabs, moray eels, cowfish, boxfish, small tuna, jacks, octopus, blowfish, and more.
- Sebation: Depth: 20 to 45 feet: Play hide-and-seek with stingrays, spotted eagle rays, occasionally dolphins, small nurse sharks, conch, manatees, bahama bluerunners, grouper, puffers, blue tangs, octopus, and eels as you dive along a very sandy channel running East to West with mainly sheet, brain and thumb coral mounds on the North and South side.
- Big Rock/Little Rock: Depth 35 - 80 feet: Are you looking for buried treasure? You might find it here among the remnants of boat wrecks, as well as in the round coral mounds with a mud bottom and a reef that reaches to the shore of Cayo Palomino. Or maybe the real treasures are the sea creatures including abundant grouper, schools of blue tang, goatfish, Bahama bluerunners, conch, stingrays, hog snapper, mutton snapper, stoplight parrotfish, snake and moray eels.
- Cayo Diablo: DEPTH: 45 - 50 feet: You can't always get there (because of swells and high wind), but when you can, Cayo Diablo is the place to be. A fringing reef wraps the island in rings of hard and soft corals. Mild and strong currents carry in schools of barracuda and the occasional eagle ray along with clear, beautiful water. There's also beach for surface intervals with excellent snorkeling right in front.
- Lobos: DEPTH: 6 - 35 feet: Where do you go to find yellowtail snapper, huge schools of blue tangs, sergeant majors, dolphins, stingrays, spotted eagle rays, anemones, reef lobsters, toad fish and octopus? Check out the mouth of the Atlantic and Caribbean that features clusters of elkhorn, sheet, golf ball, thumb and fire coral mounds with a sandy bottom.
- The Wall: DEPTH: 15 - 75 feet: Why imagine a living wall when you can see it? Sheet and thumb coral with spots of fire coral create a “wall,” with various species of sponges and sea fans waving between the corals. Queen trigger and trigger fish, cowfish, boxfish, grouper to schools of goatfish, and mutton snapper hiding amongst the sea whips are also part of the mix as well as spotted eagle rays, lobster, spotted drums and lots of parrotfish.
- Dolphin Point: DEPTH: 45 - 60 feet: Sure, you'll find dolphins here on the sandy bottom with clusters of sheet coral. But you’ll also find yourself in the company of barracuda, grouper, red hind, trumpetfish, squirrelfish, eels, several species of snapper, and schools of blue tangs, sergeant majors, Bahama bluerunners and sardines.
- Spurs: DEPTH: 15 - 65 feet: Are you looking for dramatic formations of sheet coral in the form of small caves and overhangs? Then visit the sand channels with coral mounds from 15 to 45 feet with a small wall that drops off down to 65 feet. The sand channels run East to West with the wall running North to South, and they're filled with octopus, parrotfish, eels, groups of spotted eaglerays, stingrays, schools of squid, lobster (including reef and shovel nose).
And speaking of drama: in March and April, Spurs is a calving area for dolphin. In February, its on the migratory path for pilot whales. At all other times of the year, it’s a haven for grouper, barracudas, cowfish, and boxfish.
- Spurs & Grooves: DEPTH: 10-70 feet: You’ll find spur-and-groove fingers growing from a sandy bottom that slopes from 10 feet down to 35 feet, and a brief wall coated with coral and sponges that plummets from 35 feet to 70 feet. Best of all, invertebrates frequently crowd the top reef and turtles are often found in the shallows.
- Hourglass: DEPTH: 25 - 50 feet: On the sandy bottom running East to West with coral mounds on North and South sides, you’ll find sheet corals, thumb corals, and some elk corals and staghorn corals with outcroppings of sponges. Tiny caves are home to octopus, grouper, eels, squirrelfish, silversides and puffers, and beyond those caves you’ll find many types of snapper, bahama bluerunners, little nurse sharks, conch, lobster, boxfish and squid.
Member discount:
10% discount for InfoHub customer. Request a free gift certificate.
Notes:
* 2 Tank dive is $99 per person (including gear rental)
* Discover Scuba is $150 per person
* Open Water Referral is $300 (for 4 boat dives)
* Open Water Certification Course is $450 - all inclusive.
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