Coco Island operators

Coco Island is quite a ways off the mainland of Costa Rica, are these
the only operators/boats that go there?

Okeanos Aggressor
Bill Beard Costa Rica
Seas Hunter & Underseas Hunter

thanks in advance,

-lance smith

"Reef Fish" <Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> outside@ziggyworks.com (lance smith) wrote in message
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> > Coco Island is quite a ways off the mainland of Costa Rica, are these
> > the only operators/boats that go there?
> >
> > Okeanos Aggressor
> > Bill Beard Costa Rica
> > Seas Hunter & Underseas Hunter
>
> AFAIK, Bill Beard's Diving Safaris in Costa Rica does NOT have a
> boat that goes to Cocos Island. It's a landbased operator in Costa Rica.
> It does not have a web page either.
>
> The only BOATS that go to Cocos Island, besides the Japanese boats
> that are poachers of sharks, are the liveaboards:
>
> http://www.aggressor.com/oa_home.html
>
> http://www.underseahunter.com/
>
> and the Sea Hunter (I don't have a web page reference for it)

Same outfit runs MV Sea Hunter and MV UnderSea Hunter, both of which I would
select over the Okeanos Aggressor based upon my experiences on each of the
three (though I would recommend Galapagos, rather than Cocos, as the
destination). You get more species and numbers of animals in Galapagos, and
the opportunity to dive alternate areas, given the size of the archipelago,
if the prime spots have bad conditions. Not to mention you fly into
Galapagos rather than beat across the ocean for 30-32 hours each way.

outside@ziggyworks.com (lance smith) wrote in message news:<36f85e46.0306222132.50b105a4@posting.google. com>...
> Coco Island is quite a ways off the mainland of Costa Rica, are these
> the only operators/boats that go there?
>
> Okeanos Aggressor
> Bill Beard Costa Rica
> Seas Hunter & Underseas Hunter

AFAIK, Bill Beard's Diving Safaris in Costa Rica does NOT have a
boat that goes to Cocos Island. It's a landbased operator in Costa Rica.
It does not have a web page either.

The only BOATS that go to Cocos Island, besides the Japanese boats
that are poachers of sharks, are the liveaboards:

http://www.aggressor.com/oa_home.html

http://www.underseahunter.com/

and the Sea Hunter (I don't have a web page reference for it)

-- Bob.

Thanks for the info!

FYI: here is a link to Bill Beard's web site:
http://www.billbeardcostarica.com

I also found another operation that goes out to Coco Island:
Agua Rica Dive Center
http://www.tamarindo.com/agua/
They have a (small?) sail boat that goes out there when they have 6+
divers and will take reservations 4 in advance.

It is a long way to the island, if I had to do it I think I'd rather
do it in a large boat. I'm going to Costa Rica primarily for a
backpacking trip and want to get in some diving on the side- I think
I'll stick w/ Cano island (20km off shore)

-lance smith


"David Rod Keller" <davidrodkeller@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<dfFJa.569$xF5.25466@news.uswest.net>...
> "Reef Fish" <Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:8fb7380b.0306230312.a8a0efa@posting.google.co m...
> > outside@ziggyworks.com (lance smith) wrote in message
> news:<36f85e46.0306222132.50b105a4@posting.google. com>...
> > > Coco Island is quite a ways off the mainland of Costa Rica, are these
> > > the only operators/boats that go there?
> > >
> > > Okeanos Aggressor
> > > Bill Beard Costa Rica
> > > Seas Hunter & Underseas Hunter
> >
> > AFAIK, Bill Beard's Diving Safaris in Costa Rica does NOT have a
> > boat that goes to Cocos Island. It's a landbased operator in Costa Rica.
> > It does not have a web page either.
> >
> > The only BOATS that go to Cocos Island, besides the Japanese boats
> > that are poachers of sharks, are the liveaboards:
> >
> > http://www.aggressor.com/oa_home.html
> >
> > http://www.underseahunter.com/
> >
> > and the Sea Hunter (I don't have a web page reference for it)
>
> Same outfit runs MV Sea Hunter and MV UnderSea Hunter, both of which I would
> select over the Okeanos Aggressor based upon my experiences on each of the
> three (though I would recommend Galapagos, rather than Cocos, as the
> destination). You get more species and numbers of animals in Galapagos, and
> the opportunity to dive alternate areas, given the size of the archipelago,
> if the prime spots have bad conditions. Not to mention you fly into
> Galapagos rather than beat across the ocean for 30-32 hours each way.