Dive Sites to Explore with The Cortez Club​

Difficulty: Advanced Open Water Depth: 60 – 100+ft ( 30+m) The seamount is located 8.2 miles, 032o degrees from Los Islotes. There are three distinct underwater peaks arrayed along a three hundred yard line running 120o – 300o, the northern most rising to within 83ft of the surface, the central peak to within 52ft and the southern to within 69ft. The central peak, with its shallow depths and relatively flattop, is the primary dive site and anchoring location
This is one of the premier dive sites in the world for schooling Hammerhead sharks. Schools range from between six to hundreds travelling in a clockwise direction around the seamount for unknown reasons. While schooling, hammerheads are not aggressive, and reassuringly enough they actually appear disinterested in divers. As a seamount El Bajo is home to an abundance of sea life, mass schooling fish (amber jacks, tuna etc), octopus and the impressive Panamic Green moray; a colony of over fifty can be found in a small canyon. Aside from possible encounters with hammerheads frequent visitors to the seamount include; whale sharks and giant pacific manta rays. NOTE: this is an Advanced Open Water Dive.

Difficulty: Novice Depth: 25-30ft (8-9m) Voted as one of the most enjoyable sites by our divers.
With a max depth of 35 ft, great visibility, coral heads, walls covered with gorgonians and hundreds of schooling fish Swanne Reef is an excellent dive site.
This site is where the famous wreck of the "Salvatierra" hit bottom some 35 years ago you can still find the deep gauge left behind by the big ferry, now barely visible because it is so overgrown by corals and sea fans.
The top of this reef is only 6 ft deep and it is covered with living coral where a wide variety of creatures find and call it home.
This reef is now marked with a channel marker to avoid more incidents.
Here big schools of green jack find shelter from larger predators, at any given time you can be surrounded by them just to see them disappear when other fish or a sea lion comes by.

Difficulty: Intermmediate Depth:25ft – 100+ft (8 – 30+m) This small rock pinnacle located on the west side of Isla Cerralvo has a constant current in which schools of fish “hang” waiting for their dinner to pass. Large groupers, sea fans, brain corals and conger garden eels are among the attractions, which make this a favourite site. [/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title="San Rafaelito"][vc_column_text]Difficulty: Novice Depth:20 –100+ft (12 – 30+m) A local dive site boasting a large number of coral heads, small caves and overhangs.
This is our popular night dive site, where on can see huge sleeping Parrot Fish cocooned in their own mucus hiding their scent from potential predators and upon waking, swim free of the cocoon.
Once home of a colony of Sea Lions who occasionally return to visit their old home.
There’s a multitude of fish life and several species of ray buried in the surrounding sand.

Difficulty: Novice Depth:20 –100+ft (12 – 30+m) A local dive site boasting a large number of coral heads, small caves and overhangs.
This is our popular night dive site, where on can see huge sleeping Parrot Fish cocooned in their own mucus hiding their scent from potential predators and upon waking, swim free of the cocoon.
Once home of a colony of Sea Lions who occasionally return to visit their old home.
There’s a multitude of fish life and several species of ray buried in the surrounding sand.