Scuba diving in Mexico

Popular choices in Mexico, where you can enjoy excellent scuba diving, are Cozumel Island and Cancun, both offering amenities for unforgettable vacations.

Cozumel Island & Cancun

Cozumel Island is known by vacationers as one of the most interesting places to go and practice scuba diving. This Mexican island offers not just a wide variety of diving activities, but features also extremely clear waters allowing a visibility of about 150 foot!
Vacationers who travel to Cozumel Island have the opportunity to dive in many different reefs. Some of the most visited reefs are Punta Tunich, San Francisco, Paraiso, Tormentos, Chankanaab, Maracaibo, Punta Sur, Santa Rosa, Colombia, Palancar and Paso del Cedral. All these resorts offer magnificent beaches as well as very interesting diving areas.
Cozumel Island is a great place for practicing wall diving. This island has several walls filled with beautiful corals and surrounded by a very colorful and varied sea life. These walls and reefs are protected by the Mexican Government National Park.
The island's waters have a very rich sea life, especially abundant colorful fish. In some areas, even swimmers can see some of this island's beautiful sea life from the surface. Due to the wide range of land and water activities that this island offers, people of all ages can find something to do, so if your family or your friends are not crazy about scuba diving they will find a another interesting vacation activity.
Cancun is one of the world's best known travel destinations and is synonymous with Caribbean romance, exciting nightlife, five stars hotels and restaurants, water sports adventures and miles of white sandy beaches. This is also a world-renowned center for scuba-diving, fishing and snorkeling. Every year, millions of vacationers from all over the world travel to Mexico to experience the Cancun lifestyle. Perhaps the main reason why vacationers find themselves in Cancun is the spectacular diving.
The northern side beaches from Cancun are excellent not just for diving, but for swimmers, beachcombers and other water sports too. The waters of Caribbean around Isla Mujeres are very calm and the beaches of the island are very clean and are dotted with first class hotels. This area is also where the cruise ships and shuttles dock.
Some of the recommended beaches here include Playa Las Perlas, Linda, Langosta, Tortugas, and Caracol. The eastern side beaches are also perfect for water sports such as scuba diving, snorkeling, kayaking, jet-skiing, windsurfing and others. Beaches Gaviota Azul, Chac Mool, Playa Marlin and Playa Ballenas are really amazing dive resorts in Mexico!