Ultimate guide to the 5 best places to Dive in Mexico “Riviera Maya”
The 5 best places to Dive in Mexico “Riviera Maya”
The Dive in Mexico in The Riviera Maya has the best dives of the Mexican Caribbean and giving us many options to dive which can be combined very well if you are going to visit this place.
I will explain in this article the 5 best dives you can do in the main cities: Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.
In all these places there are several diving sites that I will recommend you with prices and tips.
1. Diving in Cancún.
In Cancun there are the tow most famous and well-known dive sites in the world and the Mexican Caribbean. Musa and Manchones.
Musa.
is the largest underwater museum in the world where many marine species lives and schools of fish of the Mexican Caribbean, there is 472 statues sculptures, here we can find lobsters, moray eels, sea urchins, French angels fish, rays, and most of the time we see turtles and much more , the maximum depth of this is 10 meters.
Manchones.
On the Manchones reef, thre is two of the most famous sculptures of the museum of Cancun: the collector of Dreams and the Man in Flames. Since they are shallow waters is avalible for Open Water Divers, this dive can cost $ 90 dollars for two Dives plus $ 10 dollars for dock tax and marine park conservation.
2. Diving in Cozumel.
Cozumel is an island in front of Playa del Carmen, the true Mexican Caribbean, the crystal and clear waters made of this place on of the best Dive in Mexico and the world, its wall of kilometers of reefs called the second coral reef in the world after Australia, it offers a variety of spectacular dives where we can see all kinds of marine life from sharks, large rails, turtles, barracudas and a variety of reef fish and many many other things.
You can cross to Cozumel in Ferry or with one of the only two diving boats in Playa del Carmen that cross daily, the dive is from $ 100 to $ 120 dollars for two dives.
3. Diving in Playa del Carmen.
In Playa del Carmen there are several places to dive near the city but the best experience in this place is the Bull Shark in the months of November to January, some times until February. The grate experience made this place one of the best Dive in Mexico.
Bull shark.
Some schools in Playa del Carmen have permission to feed the sharks during the dive and I assure you that it is a wonderful and safe show, thi dive is only for advanced divers since it is a direct descent to 25 meters deep, you do not need to swim , they always arrive at the same point even if you take the risk that they do not arrive and they do not return the money back, often they arrive there enormous rays and one that other fish to eat, the water is transparent and the price is from $ 90 to 130 dollars depending if you take the feed show or not: Phanton diver and dive mike is the two Diving school that I know and they are good.
4. Diving in Puerto Morelos
It is an old port and small fishing village located 30 minutes from Playa del Carmen in the direction of Cancun but it is very quiet and cozy where is one of the best dives in Mexico.
The dive in this place consists of a great variety of fishes and colors, spectacular reefs that are worth knowing, there we will find a sunken ship that is the only one in that area:
The C-56 Minesweeper (minesweeper)
Sunken Boat C-56 Minesweeper.
Also known as Juan Escutia was one of the ships of the United States Navy with a size of 56 meters was operated on the Atlantic Ocean during the Second World War and in the year of 1996 it was donated to form a coral reef full of many marine life that at the same time relives this beautiful wreck, is at a depth of 28 meters therefore it is only for advanced divers.
in the months between November and March they reach the schools of up to 50 eagle rays that can be seen on the boat.
Two dives including the boat cost $ 80 dollars.
5. Diving in Tulum
Tulum is a small quiet beach town with beautiful sunrises, the entrance to the ecological reserve of sian caan where we can appreciate one of the greatest wonders and mysteries of this planet, the Cenotes.
Cenotes: They are water holes formed by some landslides opening the way to many circuits of caves and caverns connected each to others by kilometers, its name comes from the Mayan word “dzonot” or “ts’onot”, which means sacred well or abyss where they did their sacred rituals and buried their ancestors since for them it was the entrance to the underworld. At the moment remains of humans are found in these places.
Cause of the crystalline waters, the reflections of the sun and the sea water mixed with the fresh water offer us one of the most special dives of the Mexican Caribbean and the world.
Certified divers can practice cavern dives as deep as they have but no cave dives, special cave certification is needed.
Cenote Angelita.
It was cataloged as the best dive in Mexico and the world by several occasions, it is an underground river under another river.
Diving here is like diving a dream, for a moment you will see yourself diving over a cloud due to the effect of cloudiness due to the gases that spring from the stones of more than 2000 years old and the combination of fresh and salt water called Haloclina. .
It is a difficult to describe this experience, you have to live it and it is the dive that I would recommend to any diver, one dive here combined with another dive is costs between $ 180 and $ 200 dollars.
Some other Cenote dives that I could recommend would be: Calavera, The Pit, Dos Ojos, Dream Gate, Great Cenote and more.
If you want to enjoy all these places, I recommend this Diving Package in Mexico where you have the best combination for all these dives.
The best option to know all this places in the Mexican Caribbean Package in Riviera Maya
