Cabarete diving
Cabarete diving offers a lot of opportunities to experience a wide choice of dives from wall diving to wreck diving for the experienced diver.Water
temperatures range between 26-29°c.
Visibility ranging from 18-35 metres.
The
bay's broad, peninsula shaped reef begins 15 feet from the surface,
dropping down to a depth of 60 feet on one side and 45 feet
on the other with a narrow slit that cuts through it, forming
a small canyon. Outside the bay, a second system featuring
a broad network of patch reefs known as "Tropical Garden"
follows the bottom's easy sloping contours from a maximum depth
of 100 feet, stretching back up to 30 feet, ending on a site
named Three Rocks.
Three Rocks is a shallow reef going to maximum 9m which makes
it suitable for all types of divers. Here plenty of sergeant
majors and snappers, parrot fish and
trumpet fish can be seen. A few scorpion fish have
also been spotted.
Most
dive shops in Cabarete take divers to nearby Sosua area which
has clear turquoise waters, just 15 minutes from Cabarete.
For advanced divers there are many opportunities to discover
walls, coral reefs and even underwater caves
in the area.
For divers looking for wreck diving there's the Miguelina
Wreck at max. 24m that sunk due to a heavy storm and which
has become a popular attraction. Near it is the 250 year
old anchor covered with algae and corals.
