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.

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Important to know about Cuba

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.

Capital: La Habana Language: Spanish. Currency: Cuban pesos for locals and for tourists Convertible Pesos. Population: Approx. 11,500,000 Climate: Mostly temperate with rains from December to May and hurricane warning between June and November.

Other excursions besides diving in Cuba

There is plenty to do in the island. In many places you will find cigars and rum factories. Night clubs for Salsa (Cuban dance) and City tours with colonial and revolution's history and culture. Visiting La Habana; capital of Cuba is a most do excursion.

Where to dive in Cuba

The island of Cuba has hundreds of kilometers of virgin beaches, little islands and unexplored underwater terrain. It had been mentioned that Cuba's diving jewels can be found in the central section of the southern coast (Playa Giron to Manzanillo). This area includes the best cuban dive sites of the island in "Isla de la Juventud" and "Jardines de la Reina". These sites have nothing to envy to the "Top Dive Sites" of the world.

Marinas y Náuticas, Marlin S.A, is a company of the Ministry of Sports Tourism in Cuba which operates several fully equipped dive centers across the country and around the hotel network.

Diving information for Cuba

Cuban diving sites average normal visibility of 30 to 40 meters/ 100 to 133 feet, water temperatures from 26-29ºC/78-85ºF. The warm, clear, calm diving conditions are consistent all year round, although hurricane season (June to November) can blow out some days of dives.During the winter (October to March) from time to time the northern part of the island receives strong Atlantic winds that also affect the diving excursions.

Normally it is possible to dive all year round, you just have to play your luck with mother nature.

Cuban Dive Sites

Diving_Guardalavaca Guardalavaca They have a great wall with really nice tunnels and a grave yard of Russian military tanks underwater. Read more.

Cayo largo beach Cayo Largo is one of the best places for diving in Cuba. The area is protected and the sub aquatic diversity is extraordinary. Read more.

Ship wreck Santiago De Cuba offers one of the best Cuban diving sites of the country with many small hills separated by narrow pockets of sand. Read more.

Ship wreck Trinidad The town of Trinidad with stately churches and great architecture from the colonial times. Read more.

diving in varadero Varadero The most famous Beach-Holiday place in Cuba, with over 20 km of fine white sand and good diving sites. Read more.

diving in bay of pigs Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs is a beach on the southern coast near the Bay of Pigs (famous for the 1961 failed attack on Cuba by the CIA). Read more.