Scuba Diving in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is an eco-tourism paradise with rainlate fall season. The operator I used was Rich Coast
forests, exotic wildlife, volcanoes and much more. ThisDiving. The local Costa Rican divemasters from Rich
little Central American country is also an interestingCoast they took all of the scuba equipment including
place to scuba dive. Most of the diving in Costa Rica istanks down to the beach every morning by pickup
done on the west coast Pacific Ocean side with antruck.The dives ranged from about 60 feet to 85 feet
area up in the Guanacaste region located in thewith mild to moderate currents. One thing that all divers
northwestern part of the country and another south ofwill notice here is that the diving in Costa Rica is very
the capital city of San Jose near the middle of its westdifferent from the usual Caribbean reef diving. The
coast. If flying into San Jose, one would have to dovisibility is a lot poorer and there are some noticeably
some internal traveling to get to either of these twocolder thermoclines. The poor visibility is due to higher
locations.The Guanacaste area is a bit easier to get toamounts of plankton in the local waters compared to
especially if one could arrange a flight right to the townthe Caribbean Sea. In some dive sites, we had to
of Liberia in northern Costa Rica. There are someswim through sections of water which turned into an
seasonal charter flights from North America directly toalmost brown color soup. This cut the sunlight from the
Liberia. The town of Playas del Coco which is used astop drastically. However, there is a huge plus side to
the main base for divers is a short cab ride from thethis poorer visibility. The plankton attracts larger marine
Liberia airport. There are restaurants and small hotels inanimals and if divers came here to see the big ones,
Playa del Coco including a few American ownedthey will not be disappointed.Even some of the reef
scuba dive operators. These dive operators usuallyfish here are larger. For example, the trumpet fish we
have special package deals available which includesaw down here are significantly larger than the ones
both diving and accommodations with one of the localfound in Caribbean waters. Also, there are much more
hotels. Everything in town is within easy walkingporcupine puffer fish here.
distance.I made a trip for scuba diving here during the