The Complete Guide to Scuba Diving in Cabo San Lucas

• Pelican Rock: Ideal for beginners and advanced divers, featuring schools of fish, pufferfish, and occasional sea lions.  For begginers we can start scuba diving as shallow as 4 feet or less than 2 meters for a slow dive introduction when you are on a discor scuba diving program or on an Open Water PADI course but for certified divers starting at 20 feet or 7 meters really fast we swimm to a deeper area with deep drops if you feel confortable finding also big school of fish like red snapperds, goat fish and some others that create a cloud of marine life.  We have a buoyed area in this dive site that creates a protected area from boats for warming up on a first dive just to start but later we swim away of this area looking for more marine life.

• Neptune’s Finger: A great spot for spotting rays and eels hiding in crevices.  Many times we choose this sedond dive site as is a smooth and small area to wait floating in the blue for sighting schools of mobula rays -devil rays- or schools of cow nose rays depending the time of the year there could be more chances as well as the giant schools of red snappers.  

• The Sand Falls: One of the most unique dive sites in the world, where cascading sand mimics an underwater waterfall.  Sometimes of the year mainly outum and summer could be working this sandfalls as it needs south swell for being active.  Still is part of the Pelican Rock extension the same as the North Wall.  In one dive depending we can scuba dive the area from the north wall and finishing at the shallow area of the Pelican Rock and we discover the magic area all in once going above rock formations, sand falls, the deep drop until the sandy shallow area for the safety stop at the Pelican area.

• Lands End: We called like that for being the last tip of the Baja Peninsula.  This dive site is a sandy area that goes as deep as 80 feet or 24 meters but we can start al 30 feet or 10 meters and it´s a big area for scuba diving.  This dive site sometimes has strong current and it´s hard to dive in but the marine life with schook of fish, school of rays can make it a hotspot, the same as an old shipwrek that every year depending on the storms we either find more or less parts of it as sun covers it of the currents remove sand to do it better to sight it.   We go around a big rock formation around the Arch where during the summer and beggining of winter we might have more chances to find the sealions under water.  We head to a shallow area at 15 feet or 5 meters and have a look if they are This sealion area is part of a resting spot for them.  They tend to move to a breeding sealion colony part of the year in Espiritu Santo, La Paz where we recommned for sighting the babies sea lions.

Between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, this area offers fantastic diving with less boat traffic and a variety of reefs.  Most of the time we are scuba diving alon with no other divers wich makes it perfect as we also don´t hear any boats pollutions.  The other great thing during the winter and whale watching season is being able to hear them singing.