Eels of Costa Rica
Easily mistaken as sea snakes, eels are actually elongated fish measuring from the smallest 5cm to the largest 4meters and weighs from lightest 30 grams to the heaviest…
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Scuba Dive Costa Rica
Located in Playa Flamingo in Guanacaste, Scuba Dive Costa Rica is a PADI Dive Center that services the areas of Tamarindo, Langosta, Grande, Conchal, Brasilito, Potrero…
Artificial Reefs made from Old Tires – A Bad Idea
The invention of tires has made car travel more easier and smoother but when tires are worn out, having an average life span of 50,000 miles, they need to be replaced…
Artificial Reef Projects in Costa Rica
The artificial reef project in Costa Rica started in the 1980’s where used tires are bundled together forming a huge underwater structure for corals to attach. But most…
Is it possible to make an Artificial Reef out of Costa Rica’s Electrical Grid Waste?
Coral reefs start its life cycle as a floating organism called zoaea wandering the seas until it reaches a certain time that it needs to settle down and attach itself to…
What is a Healthy Coral Reef System?
“To dive in a healthy reef”, that’s what most divers dream of. We often use this term to describe how beautiful a dive site can be. But technically, do we really know…
Buceo Gavilana Dive Centre
Located 2 kilometers from the beach in a place called Las Delicias near the entrance of Playa Garza Cerca de Nosara in Guanacaste, Buceo Gavilana Dive Centre is both a…
Aquacenter Diving
Coming from an International Group of Companies that specializes in Diving, Aquacenter Diving is now operating in Costa Rica and registered as a PADI Resort Facility.…
Nitrox Diving in Costa Rica
When we go diving and use our conventional scuba tanks, we are just like breathing air but in a compressed form. Comprising 78% of nitrogen, the air that we breath from…
Sea Turtles of Costa Rica
Aside from sharks, manta rays, whales and schools of fish, what comes in to your mind if you think about the dive sites of Costa Rica are Sea Turtles. Diving in Catalina…