Cocos Island

Hi guys, what about diving cocos in may - i want to go there next year...

anything special about visibility, current or sharks..

regards wolfgang

"Wolfgang Zwicknagl" <aon.104423630@aon.at> wrote in message
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> Hi guys, what about diving cocos in may - i want to go there next year...
>
> anything special about visibility, current or sharks..

Coco is am extremely exciting dive destination. It is also a very
unpredictable dive destination. When the vis and sharks are there it is some
of the best diving I have ever done. When the current kicks up it is also
one of the more difficult places I have ever dived. Definitely worth the
trip and cost for those animals and conditions, but I would suggest seeing
them in Galapagos instead, for a few reasons: 1) you fly into Galapagos
rather than beating against the sea for 30-32 hours each way 2) in Galapagos
if conditions at any particular area are bad you have a wide variety of
other locations to try, given the spread of the archipelago and 3) the land
tours/topside stuff is quite special.

I have been to both places and would choose Galapagos rather than Cocos.
Plus, at least in my experience, the sharks seem to come much closer in
Galapagos than Coco's. I'm not sure why that is but at Roca Redondo we have
had hundreds of sharks schooling away at 20 to 30 feet and weaving back in
amongst us as close as 4 to 5 feet if we held our breath and waited
patiently. I've never had sharks in Coco's come that close and they
generally school a bit deeper.