Barracuda Diving Center

The waters around the Cuban archipelago are characterized by their gentleness mild tides and no strong currents -, their warmth over 24C all year round, their virgin conditions - no pollution and well preserved bottoms -, the diversity of its underwater flora and fauna, and the total absence of aggressive animals. In this sites can be seen web developed gorgonians and diferent types of corals where you can also find a wide variety of coral fish, cubera snappers, groupers and a big school of grunts which are easily fed by divers.

Another diving site is a coastal coral ref. known as Playa Coral from 1 to 20 meters ( 3 to 66 feet) deep, that can be reached by swimming from the beach under its protection, where more than 30 coral species live, some of them with the remarkable development topping the surface, joined together forming channels, passages or caves as a shelter of a very particular and interesting fauna. Other interesting site is La Cueva de Saturno, a cave flooded by briny water, with a free surface lake and two galleries 20 meters ( 66 feet) deep, with extraordinarily transparent waters, as if you were diving in the air. This site also has secondary formations, pecular stalactites and stalacmites and you can see blind fish and shrimps. In general the divers can find angel fish, barracudas, groupers, lobsters and green morays up to 2 meters ( 6,5 feet) length that can be easily fed by the divers.