Varadero
The most famous of all beaches in Cuba is Varadero, over 20 kilometers of powder-fine white sands, warm, transparent waters, comfortable hotels and a captivating tropical ambiance. Many are the options that Varadero has to offer lovers of water sports, in addition to cruises, motorbike and horseback riding, helicopter tours, parachuting, and other exciting entertainment to make your stay at this beach really unforgettable. Diving in this natural paradise is practiced out of the Barracuda Diving Center. Its varied program highlights shipwrecks, flooded caves, gulf walls or " blue hole," coral barriers and even feeding friendly moray eels. |
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Playa
Coral Depth:
20 meters Description: You can reach the coral barrier from the beach. There are over 30 species of coral, some quite developed that come up to the surface, interlinking to form channels, passages and caves, the habitat of a peculiar and fascinating fauna. |
Cueva
de Satumo Depth: 20 meters
Description:
A cavern flooded by both fresh and sea water, with abundant secondary
formations, stalactites and stalagmites. There is a lake and two galleries
where you can find blind shrimp and fish.
Las
Mandarinas Depth: 15 meters
Description:
Coral patch with diverse, greatly developed fauna, among which you will
find various coral reef fish, moray eels, (Gymnothorax sp.), groupers
and large schools of grunt (Haemuleon sp.), that eat out of the divers'
hands.
Caribe
Depth: 10 meters
Description:
Remains of and old German merchant ship sunk in 1943. There are many angel
fish (Pomacanthus sp.), barracudas (sphyraena barracuda), groupers (Epinephelus
sp.), lobsters (Panulirus argus) and green moray eels gymnothorax funebris)
of up to 2 meters long which are fed from the divers hands.
El
Cenote Depth: 25 meters
Description:
A limestone formation flooded by the sea through underground communication,
with a big lake at the entrance and side fissures that go down to great
depths. (So far they have been explored down to 70 meters.) There is an
abundance of coral reef fish. The site is located in a Natural Reserve
known as the Zapata Marshes, in the southern part of Matanzas Province.
Punta
Perdiz Depth: 40 meters
Description:
This site is located in the Bay of Pigs, in the Caribbean Sea and you
can swim up to it from the coast. It is one of the most spectacular wall
diving sites, since the ecological conditions in the area have favored
the development of a typical and exuberant underwater ecosystem which
accompanies divers right from the coastline down to the very edge of the
wall, at a depth of scarcely 10 meters, then drops off sharply to over
300 meters.
Related Links:
| Diving
Center - Acua Marinas Puertosol |
| Diving
Center - Barracuda Cubanacán Náutica |
| Diving
Center - Club Varadero SuperClubs |
| Diving
Center - Gaviota Gaviota |
Playa Larga
Diving
Center - Octopus Hoteles Horizontes
Address:
Hotel Playa Larga, Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas Phone:
(53 459) 7294
Playa Giron
Diving
Center - Playa Girón Hoteles Horizontes
Address:
Hotel Playa Girón, Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas Phones: (53
459) 4118 / 4110 / 4195
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