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Cuban Dive Sites
If you
are
planning
on diving and you are interest in Cuban dive sites here
you will find some good info
about
the island.
Cuba,
famous for its cigars and rum, is the largest island of the Greater
Antilles and offers breathtaking beaches, fascinating history, culture,
ecological wonders and more. Cuba has one of the
best conservation
of it's ecosystem, making every cuban dive sites feel like virgin and
making
Cuban waters a paradise filled with
coral reefs, walls, different species of sponges and fish.
Cuban diving sites average normal
visibility of 30 to 40 meters, water temperatures from 26 to
29°C. The warm, clear, calm diving conditions are consistent
all year round, although hurricane season (June to November)
can blow out some days of dives.
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Santiago
De Cuba
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The
second
most important and largest city after “La Havana”.
Santiago de Cuba offers
one of the best Cuban diving sites of the country with
many small hills separated by narrow pockets of
sand. These hillocks are covered with beautiful invertebrate fossils
forming
caves and tunnels protecting a big variety of fish, crustaceans and
mollusks.
Cuban history is not only found on the streets but also underwater
around this province, there is nothing more exiting than
the well preserved wreck: El Cristobal Colon, once the pride
of
the Spanish navy that went down at 90 kilometers/ 55miles west of
Santiago de Cuba more than 100 years ago during the war between Spain
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Battleship Cruce
Cristóbal Colón moments before it is abandoned in the mouth of river
Turquino, Santiago
de Cuba. 3 de Julio 1898. |
Trinidad
The
town of Trinidad with stately churches and great
architecture from the Spanish colonial times was declared a National
Heritage
Site by UNESCO in 1998.
It has been said that due to overfishing there is little marine fauna
in the
area, but to our observation they will recover very soon and they still
have a
beautiful coral life around the Ancon peninsula with beautiful sponges,
fan corals,
many tunnels and some wrecks.
All
the dive sites are less than 10 minutes by boat from the
dive center that is located at the Ancon hotel.
See all our pictures from
Trinidad
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Varadero
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The
most famous Beach-Holiday
place in
Cuba, with over 20 km of fine white sand, is
also an enclave featuring good diving sites from which divers can reach
the
coral reefs and observe caves, channels and a variety of artificial
reefs like sunken
planes and war shipwrecks. Loads
of fish to see: Jacks,
Barracudas, blue groper and more.
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