Dive sites: pelagic

Costa RicaPelagic

Bat Islands (Islas Murciélago)

Guanacaste and the North Pacific

15 to 35 mAdvancedFrom June to October

BoatCurrent: strongVisibility 5 to 27 m

The Bat Islands are an archipelago in Santa Rosa National Park, 45 minutes by RIB from Playa Flamingo.

A school of scalloped hammerheads in silhouette in blue-green water, seen from below, about twenty animals

Costa RicaPelagic

Bajo Alcyone

Cocos Island

25 to 40 mAdvancedFrom June to November

LiveaboardCurrent: strongVisibility 10 to 30 m

Bajo Alcyone is a seamount with its summit at 25 meters, off Cocos Island, 36 hours by boat from the Costa Rican coast.

A mobula ray seen from the side swims to the left, olive green back and white belly, two remoras stuck under its body and its sickle-shaped wing dipping down, in clear blue water

AzoresPelagic

Ambrósio

Santa Maria

5 to 46 mAdvancedFrom July to September

BoatCurrent: variableVisibility 20 to 40 m

Ambrósio is a shoal three nautical miles off the north coast of Santa Maria, where dozens of mobula rays rise from June to October and circle a meter from divers holding the buoy line.