Cocos Island Diving Adventure (trip)

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Cocos Island Diving Adventure

  • San Jose Airport, Alajuela, Costa Rica
  • Active & Adventure
Costa Rica, Central America

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from $4,435* per person11 DaysYear-round
Comfort accommodations Exertion level: 3
Operator: Banana Adventure Tours 12 people max
A ten-day diving adventure at Cocos Island, 300 miles offshore of Costa Rica's Pacific coast. A distinctive and remote scuba diving location, Cocos Island is for the serious diver! Cocos Island has retained its pristine appearance both above and below the ocean's surface. Cocos is a very lush, rugged tropical island that is preserved as one of Costa Rica's National Parks. In the waters of Cocos Island, you will dive with white tips and hammerhead sharks, marbled stingrays approaching 6' in diameter, manta rays up to 12' across, giant moray eels and an occasional whale shark! Additionally, you will see Moorish idols, large schools of jacks and tuna, creole fish, lobsters, octopus and other various reef life. Silky sharks, silver tips, sailfish, marlin, and green turtles are also in the area. Visibility averages 80-100' with occasional extremes of 40 and 120'.

The history of Cocos Island is replete with true tales of pirates and explorers. The evidence is everywhere. It can be found in the archives of Spain and England as well as on Cocos itself. For four centuries, adventurers and sailors have left their mark carved in the numerous stones and boulders along the beach of Chatham Bay.

Come an enjoy they best Costa Rica Adventure Tour for experienced divers.

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Costa Rica, Central America

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1 testimonial about the provider, Banana Adventure Tours:

  • Reviewer: Liz Warren located in California USA
     -The attention to detail was perfect - these guys are professionals! It takes an enormous amount of work to make all the details work, and this was done seamlessly.
    I highly recommend Banana Adventures Tours to anyone who wants to get the most out of their Costa Rica vacation -

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Special information

  • This is a custom departure, meaning this trip is offered on dates that you arrange privately with the provider. Additionally, you need to form your own private group for this trip. The itinerary and price here is just a sample. Contact the provider for detailed pricing, minimum group size, and scheduling information. For most providers, the larger the group you are traveling with, the lower the per-person cost will be.

Itinerary

Day 1:

Pick up at airport and transfer to hotel. No activities and no dinners.

You will be met at the airport exit by one of Banana Adventure Tours representatives and accompanied to your hotel in San Jose. The evening is at your leisure. Due to flight schedules in and out of San Jose, the capital city, an overnight stay is recommended both before and after the cruise.  Evening at your leisure.

The night before departure a representative of the diving company will inform you at your hotel of your pick up time for transport to the vessel. The evenings onshore are at your leisure. Hotel nights and meals before and after the cruise are not included in the charter, but can be arranged by a Banana Adventure Tours Representative.

Day 2:

Pick up at hotel and transfer to Puntarenas

You will be picked up at your hotel and transferred by bus to Puntarenas, a seaport village where the beautiful cruise called Sea Hunter boards its passengers. On the day of departure to Cocos Island, generally between 8 AM and 1 PM, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred by Fiesta Tours to Puntarenas, the seaport village where you will board the vessel. The drive takes about 2.5 hours and gives you a chance to view the lush tropical forest and rich farmland of the region. On the way there will be a stop for a snack or lunch. The price of this meal is not included in the price of the trip. At the end of the trip you disembark at 8 AM and will be transferred back to your hotel in San Jose. That afternoon, you will begin the cruise to Cocos Island. the cruise to Cocos Island takes 30-34 hours and culminates with breathtaking views of numerous waterfalls.

Day 3:

All day of travel

There will be ample time to arrange dive and camera gear. The adventure tour for expert divers begins! The cruise gives you an opportunity to get acquainted with the other divers. Located in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 300 miles southwest of Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica, lies the famous Cocos Island Marine Park. A rugged and incredibly beautiful island, this World Heritage Site is the crown jewel of Costa Rica's many National Parks. Cocos Island has an irregular coastline, which makes estimation of land area more a matter of opinion than a surveyor’s science, but it is roughly five miles by two miles (8 x 3 kilometers).

Day 4 - 10:

Diving time at Cocos Island

Spent diving the pinnacles around the perimeter of Cocos Island. Divers usually average three dives per day at depths of 60-100' or more. Water temperature of approximately 78-82F (27-30C). The island has two large bays with safe anchorages and sandy beaches: Chatham is located on the northeast side and Wafer Bay is on the northwest. Just off Cocos are a series of smaller basaltic rocks and islets. The largest satellite is Isla Manuelita (formerly Nuez). The island also supports a verdant, high-altitude cloud forest. Rare for a small island, this is made possible by dramatic topography, abundant rainfall and surplus water stored in the porous reservoirs of the island itself. This extraordinary island ecosystem is unique to Cocos alone, of all the islands of the Eastern Tropical Pacific (Clipperton, the Revillagigedos, the Galapagos Islands, and Malpelo).

We daily schedule two dives in the morning (8 AM and 11 AM), one in the afternoon (2.30 PM) and a night dive at 6 PM.
After a dive briefing from our Divemasters on the mothership, our guests board the two skiffs that each accommodate up to nine divers plus Divemaster, who always dive with the group and the Skiff Driver. After a short ride, each of the skiffs will reach a different dive site that is switched on the following dive allowing the two groups to dive the same areas but at different times of the day.

Day 11:

Seiling back to Puntarenas

All day to discuss the diving and to compare your adventures!

Arrival in Puntarenas and transfer to San Jose.   The cruise will arrive to Puntarenas and immediately after breakfast you will be transported back to San Jose. Upon arrival in San Jose we recommend that you spend an additional hotel night prior to departing from Costa Rica.

Transfer out.
Transfers to the airport will be arranged depending on departure times.

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