Cozumel
Cozumel
Cozumel
Cozumel
Scuba diving and dive sites in Cozumel Mexico
Cozumel is home to the largest reef system in the Americas, the Mesoamerican Reef. Teeming with hundreds of tropical fish, turtles, sharks, moray eels, eagle rays and other vibrant sea life, it is truly a diver's dream. There are as many as 250 different species of tropical fish including the illusive Cozumel splendid toadfish, only seen in Cozumel.
Cozumel is recognized as one of the best reef diving sites in the world. In the last 20 years many divers have opted to stay in Riviera Maya to spend their dive vacations.
The water temperature (78-85 F, 25-30 C) and clarity (with a visibility of 20 to 40 meters), allow for scuba diving all year round. The depth of the dives is usually between 10 and 30 meters (33 and 100 Ft.). A gentle current will drift divers along the dive site and it'll be just like flying underwater.
Scuba Planet Mexico can offer a direct diving trip “Direct to Cozumel”. In this case you can save time because you don't need the ferry from Playa del Carmen to Cozumel. Check our website to find the most beautiful spots for scuba Diving in Cozumel.
In this page you can find all the informations about scuba diving and dive sites in Cozumel Mexico.
Cozumel dive sites:
Palancar, Paso del Cedral, Santa Rosa Wall, San Francisco Wall, Youcab, Tormentos, Shipwreck C-53, Paradise Reef and much more ...
Dive sites informations
Paradise Reef
Max. depth: 40ft / 12m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: novice
Description: ideal site for beginners, shallow and easy. A perfect site for a second dive and to see the famous toadfish.
Very good for macro photo.
Beautiful coral and sponge formations
Shipwreck C-53
Max. depth: 76ft / 23m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: after 55 years of service C-53 was decommissioned and later donated to Cozumel underwater park. C-53 was sunk in 1999.
154 feet (56.3 m) long
33 feet (10.10 m) wide
40 feet (12 m) high
Displacement: 1000 tons
Tormentos
Max. depth: 60ft / 18m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: intermediate
Description: very rich in corals, sponges and very colorful site. Much sea life. Ideal for a second dive. You can see crustaceans, moray eels, grunts, snappers, groupers and toadfish
Yucab
Max. depth: 50ft / 15m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: intermediate
Description: perfect for a second dive. The reef is full of life and colors. Good opportunity for nice pictures. You can see scorpion fish, lobster, octopus and more
San Francisco
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: beautiful wall, perfect for a second dive, as the interesting part of it is not very deep. Very colorful, rich in fauna and flora. You can see schools of grunt, nurse sharks, eagle rays, and turtles
Santa Rosa Wall
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: is a popular first tank dive. This site is a splendid vertiginous drop-off with some small underwater caves to cross along the way, with beautiful coral formations and very beautiful and huge sponges. Less fauna than on other sites but a superb underwater landscape
Paso del Cedral
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: you can dive in two different parts of this site, the reef and the wall. Very rich in fauna, from the fact that there is always a strong current. You can find large groupers, nurse sharks, large green morays, stingrays
Palancar Gardens
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: novice/intermediate
Description: ideal first wall dive.
Excellent, photographers paradise, relaxing dive.
You can see schools of grunts, many blue chromis, butterfly, french angels and midnight parrot fish
Palancar Caves
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate
Skill level: intermediate
Description: here turtles are common, manta rays fly over, nurse sharks and butterfly fish.
There are some small underwater caves to cross along the way, with beautiful coral formations and very beautiful and huge sponges
Colombia Deep
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: the reef is very large. It is the favorite place of marine turtles and spotted eagle rays during wintertime. This site is a splendid garden with a series of underwater canyons and caves with beautiful coral formations and large sponges
Punta Sur
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate to strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: this dive is a sequence of underwater canyons and caves at the area of 100/130 ft. deep, such as the famous “Garganta del diablo” (Devil’s throat) and a magic place called “the Cathedral”, like an immense cathedral made out of coral
Maracaibo
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: strong
Skill level: experienced
Description: vertical drop-off and the spotting of larger animals, makes this site very appealing.
Rich in coral formation, but also in fauna. You can see turtles, eagle rays, black tip reef sharks
Palancar Bricks
Max. depth: 130ft / 40m
Current: moderate
Skill level: intermediate
Description: there are many swim-throughs. Southernmost portion of the Palancar sites. You can see big groupers, hawksbill turtles, juvenile spanish hogfish and occasional manta rays
Cozumel reef maps
