Best Diving in Costa Rica?

[Scubanoobi]

The pacific side of CR is probably my favourite place to dive, I dove Catalinas, Bat Islands and local diving around Playa Del Coco. All of my diving in CR (30 ish dives) have been with Rocket Frog divers and I highly recommend them. They have a few shops including in Playa Del Coco and Flamingo beach. In my view Bat Islands is a must, I had several bull sharks on 5 of 6 trips there. Here is a short video from my trip there last year, all the footage is from Catalina, Bats and Local dives.

 

[JamesBon92007]

We stayed at Bahia Del sol...

We dove with Pacific Coast Divers.

Flamingo is about 1/2 drive north of Tamarindo.

Thanks. We stayed in Guanacaste a few years ago and I did a couple of dives from Playas del Cocos and it was pretty good but we're thinking about maybe going down there again next year. Did you stay at a resort, AirBnB, VRBO? We stayed at a resort and the only thing we liked about it was it was a 2 minute walk to the beach. I dove with Sirenas in Playas and they were excellent. I'm not sure if I want to go out to the island where that bull shark has been eating divers

Edit: Also, is there any kind of public transportation in Playa Flamingo? Taxis? Colectivo? Is a rental car necessary?

 

[JamesBon92007]

The pacific side of CR is probably my favourite place to dive, I dove Catalinas, Bat Islands and local diving around Playa Del Coco. All of my diving in CR (30 ish dives) have been with Rocket Frog divers and I highly recommend them. They have a few shops including in Playa Del Coco and Flamingo beach. In my view Bat Islands is a must, I had several bull sharks on 5 of 6 trips there. Here is a short video from my trip there last year, all the footage is from Catalina, Bats and Local dives.

Nice shots and very good stabilization. It it a GoPro? Is some of it slowed down a little?

 

[nippurmagnum]

If you like riding horses, some of us have no interest

If you have no interest, you have no interest. I just mention it because it’s just down the road from the dive shop, and it looks like this:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RqfZEvgjPw127ozz8

 

[nippurmagnum]

The pacific side of CR is probably my favourite place to dive, I dove Catalinas, Bat Islands and local diving around Playa Del Coco. All of my diving in CR (30 ish dives) have been with Rocket Frog divers and I highly recommend them. They have a few shops including in Playa Del Coco and Flamingo beach. In my view Bat Islands is a must, I had several bull sharks on 5 of 6 trips there. Here is a short video from my trip there last year, all the footage is from Catalina, Bats and Local dives.

Many thanks for this. I didn’t know about the Bat Islands. Now I know where we are going on our next vacation.

 

[Scubanoobi]

Nice shots and very good stabilization. It it a GoPro? Is some of it slowed down a little?

That was my LX10, mostly shot in 1080 60FPS slowed down 50%. I'm super picky about stabilization so your comment is reassuring

 

[Scubanoobi]

Many thanks for this. I didn’t know about the Bat Islands. Now I know where we are going on our next vacation.

My best dive there started with a giant pacific manta as soon as we hit the bottom, followed by 15 bull sharks circling us for 40 minutes. At one point I could see 9 at the same time, and viz is abut 30-40 feet. It's not a baited dive either, the bull sharks are just there and come to check out the divers.

 

[nippurmagnum]

My best dive there started with a giant pacific manta as soon as we hit the bottom, followed by 15 bull sharks circling us for 40 minutes. At one point I could see 9 at the same time, and viz is abut 30-40 feet. It's not a baited dive either, the bull sharks are just there and come to check out the divers.

You had me at giant pacific manta.

 

[scubadada]

@Scubanoobi, beautiful video, brought back wonderful memories of CR, I was there 13 years ago

 

[flyboy08]

You had me at giant pacific manta.

My avatar was shot in CR off of Flamingo.