Scuba Diving in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Recently I became a PADI certified SCUBA diver.  I immediately fell in love with this fantastic sport and wanted to be able to share the experience with like minded divers.

  We started offering group dive excursions at Havana Discovery Tours http://www.havanadiscoverytours.com/

and have had the great pleasure of taking our first 2 groups to Santiago de Cuba.   Our excursions were booked into a great gem of a resort called the Gran Caribe Club Bucanero, about 30 minutes from the Santiago Airport.

This resort was chosen for a lot of reasons proximity to Santiago for day trips a smaller resort with great customer service a highly recommended dive staff and most important fantastic diving.

All of our criteria were met and even exceeded by this resort and its staff.

 Most of our group dove everyday we did shore dives and boat dives and even 2 night dives, but for me the most exciting were the wreck dives.  Just a short boat ride east of the Hotel are 4 wrecks that were sunk by the Cuban Government to attract marine Life and divers to the area.

The dive was taken on a catamaran which was arranged primarily for snorkeling in the area but we used it as a great dive platform.

The excursion included a trip to Santiago on the catamaran lunch in a restaurant on Santiago bay and a short visit to the City itself.  The group boasted several excellent photographers who photos are posted on our dive group facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Havana-Discovery-ToursDive-Tours/278679772155978#!/pages/Havana-Discovery-ToursDive-Tours/278679772155978?sk=wall

Our experience as a group was fantastic and all agreed on the desire to come back and dive this location again. The fantastic dive instructors Julian and Manuel were perfectly suited to our group, all of whom had different levels of experience.

We were all pleasantly surprised at the level of care given to us and our equipment all of it taken care of at the end of each days diving.

The area abounds with sealife and was a constant fascinating view of Caribbean fish and crustacean.  We were fortunate to see fantastic Moray Eel and even Octopus in the waters close to the resort beach.

There are even 2 small caves that can be visited 1 that also has an above water entrance and is the Home of a large number of bats.

We were fortunate to take 2 separate groups to the same resort in just 3 weeks and will be offering the same excursion in the New Year.   Without a doubt we all highly recommend the resort its staff and the diving in and around Santiago de Cuba.