Just returned from an amazing trip on the Undersea Hunter and feel like it’s a good time to post my first trip report. We were on then 01-11 December trip 2019. My brother and I booked the trip through liveaboard.com and have had zero regrets.
We arrived in San Jose the night before the trip departed and we booked one of the 4 hotels the undersea Hunter pics up from for $58 bb. I would recommend the Park Inn by Raddison ( lovely rooms with 2 double beds and good quality breakfast included.)
We were picked up on time by Undersea Hunter in a well air conditioned minibus with decent enough quality WiFi for the trip to Puntarenas. The whole transfer took about 3 hours but we had 2 stops , one at a fruit market and booze shop and the other at a place for a good quality lunch break.
On arrival at Puntarenas we boarded the boat and were allocated our rooms. All the rooms have a double bed on the bottom and single bed above- which is a treat I wasn’t expecting. ( apart from the more expensive rooms on the upper deck which just had a double bed.)
The 36 hour sail to cocos was very calm the first night and slightly choppier the 2nd night but overall completely manageable. The lower deck rooms were quite noisy but no more than I would expect from such a liveaboard. When we arrived at cocos we certainly were not disappointed, as it was amazing.
The diving was better than I had hoped for, we were not sure that it would be as good as it could be as we were late in the season. However all my fears were put to rest. We saw schools of hammerheads on 3 occasions, 11 tiger sharks over the course of the trip ( one came to check me out very closely as I very slowly swam towards it.)
Having dived in Galapagos on the aggressor , in my opinion ( it may totally have been luck of the draw) I would say that the visibility was better in Cocos and the sharks tended to come closer in the clearing stations.
We arrived in San Jose the night before the trip departed and we booked one of the 4 hotels the undersea Hunter pics up from for $58 bb. I would recommend the Park Inn by Raddison ( lovely rooms with 2 double beds and good quality breakfast included.)
We were picked up on time by Undersea Hunter in a well air conditioned minibus with decent enough quality WiFi for the trip to Puntarenas. The whole transfer took about 3 hours but we had 2 stops , one at a fruit market and booze shop and the other at a place for a good quality lunch break.
On arrival at Puntarenas we boarded the boat and were allocated our rooms. All the rooms have a double bed on the bottom and single bed above- which is a treat I wasn’t expecting. ( apart from the more expensive rooms on the upper deck which just had a double bed.)
The 36 hour sail to cocos was very calm the first night and slightly choppier the 2nd night but overall completely manageable. The lower deck rooms were quite noisy but no more than I would expect from such a liveaboard. When we arrived at cocos we certainly were not disappointed, as it was amazing.
The diving was better than I had hoped for, we were not sure that it would be as good as it could be as we were late in the season. However all my fears were put to rest. We saw schools of hammerheads on 3 occasions, 11 tiger sharks over the course of the trip ( one came to check me out very closely as I very slowly swam towards it.)
Having dived in Galapagos on the aggressor , in my opinion ( it may totally have been luck of the draw) I would say that the visibility was better in Cocos and the sharks tended to come closer in the clearing stations.
