“SCUBA DIVING IN CAYO LARGO DEL SUR”

“SCUBA DIVING IN CAYO LARGO DEL SUR”

Cayo Largo del Sur is a charming island of 37.5 km² at the south of Cuba that is part of the archipelago of the Canarreos to which also belongs the Isle of Youth. The diving area is distributed for 30 miles in the surroundings of Cayo Largo and other smaller depopulated keys. The numerous and varied coral reef formations that border these cays have created an impressive underwater scenario where a varied and abundant marine fauna and flora coexist. They can be divided into three main diving areas.

In the first zone, in the vicinity of Cayo Largo, we can enjoy a great diversity of coral bottoms with barriers, camellotes, and canals in an area that presents a curious fall to a point where it rises again in the form of mountains of corals that make the veril. In the second zone, a little further away from Cayo Largo, in the surroundings of Cayo Rosario, 19 miles away, at an average depth of about 18 meters, there are irregularly arranged coral mogotes among which various species of fish swim. The third and farthest from the diving areas, it is located approximately 30 miles away, near Cayo Sigua and Cayo Blanco, bordering the Gulf of Cazones, and where there are special conditions for wall diving due to the impressive falls you can find after 15 meters deep, which has abundant colonies of sponges, gorgonians, and black coral as well as a great fish variety.

Cayo Largo del Sur now has 32 dive sites. Among the preferred ones are Cañón de Martín (25 ), Acuario I (15 meters), Las Cadenas (15 meters), Canal de Espondrilus (25 meters), Los Ballenatos (13 meters), Abismo (15 meters), La Montaña (25 meters), Cañón de Cayo Sigua (15 meters), Cañón de Cayo Blanco (15 meters), Tony Point (18 meters), Albert Point (28 meters), among others.

The daily dive trips are scheduled to perform two rotary dives that are defined in advance. Divers who have bought a single dive must wait for the others since the boat returns after concluding the two dives.

Half day or Full Day diving for advanced and open water divers.

The service includes:

• Diving equipment, air tank, belt with weights, the assistance of an internationally certified instructor guide, who will do a briefing of dive to be made, and the use of the boat that leads from the dive center to dive sites.
• Professional diving instructor service for every 6 diving clients.
• Transfer service to and from the hotels to the Marina Marlin Cayo Largo del Sur.

Not included:

• Tips.

Very important notes:

• All clients must be over 12 years old (between 12 and 18 accompanied by a guardian), present their diving certification and valid passport.

LIABILITY WAIVER AND EXPRESS ASSUMPTION OF RISKS FOR THE PRACTICE OF DIVING BY THE CLIENT:

• Clients must sign a liability waiver to be able to practice diving activities in Marinas Marlin dive centers where among other points:

• The CLIENT acknowledges that snorkeling, freediving and scuba diving are potentially hazardous activities that carry a risk of serious injury and/or death and/or property damage and agree to assume all risks associated therewith.

• The CLIENT acknowledges that compressed air diving carries some inherent risks: decompression sickness, embolism or other hyperbaric injuries requiring treatment in a hyperbaric chamber may occur and that the CLIENT expressly assumes all such risks.

• The CLIENT must comply with the ship's safety guidelines and diving safety guidelines, in addition to complying with local regulations and legislation.

• The CLIENT agrees and certifies that he/she is fully aware of and expressly assumes all such risks and all other risks involved in conducting such boat trip, shore excursions and dives, conducted as leisure dives or as part of a dive class.

• The CLIENT agrees that they are in good physical and mental health for diving, that they do not suffer from any medical condition contraindicated for diving, that they will not dive under the influence of alcohol, nor under the influence of any drug contraindicated for diving. In case of taking any medication, the CLIENT declares that he/she has consulted a doctor and has the authorization to dive in the conditions of this activity while under the influence of the medication/drug.

• The CLIENT must declare: That ___ yes/no ___ has a personal insurance policy (covering the diving activity). If yes, he/she must specify which company is contracted and the policy number.

• The CLIENT declares that he/she releases the dive center from responsibility for any incident that may occur to the client, without being attributable to the dive center or its auxiliary staff. The CLIENT declares that he has been duly informed by the dive center staff and is fully aware of the risks of accidents involved in diving activities, which he assumes full responsibility and declares that if he or anyone, including his heirs or representatives, should be affected, they will not establish any claim against the dive center, its officers, instructors or employees, nor against the AGENCY.

• The Dive Center Marina Cayo Largo del Sur

Technical Specifications

• Operator: Marina Marlin Cayo Largo del Sur
• Dive Sites: 32
• Daily Capacity: 60 pax
• Daily Departures: 3
• Type of Seabed: Coral reefs, walls, sunken ships, abundant species (barracudas, whale shark in winter) and caves.
• Course Certification School: SSI
• Boats: Two 41-foot boats
• Nearest hyperbaric chamber: In Havana or Gerona, by helicopter transfer
• Facilities: Equipment rental available
• Quantity of Dive Instructors: 6