COSTA-RICA

 

 
 
I had the chance to make several trips there. It was the greatest experiences of all my diver life! The island beauty and the underwater wildlife are really astonishing...

Cocos Island

Comments

My 2 trips were done aboard the Sea Hunter. The boat is the most comfortable I ever saw. There are plenty of space and power supplies for all the camera and diving gear. The crew is very professional and the food is excellent. We had a very pleasant travel between Puntarenas and Cocos with a calm sea. Diving in Cocos is one of the most astonishing experiences I ever made. The visibility is perfectly clear and the fishes are everywhere. Although you can see frogfishes or small stuff, Cocos is not known as a macro spot. It is thus, a paradise for big stuff lovers :-) If you like to see marble rays, hammerheads or plenty of white tips sharks hunting at night, this is the right place to be! I also had the chance to see a huge manta ray and a mobula ray that turn around us during 15min when we made the safety stop. Among all this big fishes, what is amazing in Cocos is the huge schools of jacks and snappers that are all around you... Except from Sipadan, I never see such huge concentration of fishes in any of my previous travels. This trip is definitively one of my best souvenirs. The Cocos Island is very impressive, with all the birds flying around it... You can see here one of the last rough lands on Earth... This makes you feel so free!

Pictures

All the pictures proposed in this section are made during my several trips by a Canon EOS 20D and Canon EOS 5DMkII digital SLR camera.

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Cocos
   

Book

I used some of the pictures of my trip done in February 2008 to create a photo book that you can see here:

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Falkland
   

Deepsee submarine

Comments

I also had the chance to test the "Deepsee" submarine that was on the boat during our cruise. This submarine can handle 3 persons and can dive up to -350m deep. Diving in a submarine is one of my dreams when I was a child... and I made it, thanks to the Sea Hunter team! The experience of diving in a submarine is priceless (but my purse feels much lighter after this) and I could see species and landscape that we cannot meet as a "normal" air/nitrox scubadiver.

Pictures

All the pictures proposed in this section are made during my several trips by a Canon EOS 20D and Canon EOS 5DMkII digital SLR camera.

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Cocos
   

Arenal volcano

Comments

The bad weather near the Arenal volcano makes the trip less interesting than expected. But I could see some nice animals like iguana, crocodiles and birds...

Pictures

All the pictures proposed in this section are made by a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR camera.

Arenal

 

Poas volcano

Comments

I can take some picts of the Poas Volcano and a Butterflies farm near San José.

Pictures

All the pictures proposed in this section are made by a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR camera.

Poas

 

Management

  • My first journey was prepared by the travel agency KeyLargo.

  • My second journey was prepared by Gilbert who lead our group and by the travel agency H2O Voyages .

 

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