We daily schedule two dives in the morning (8 AM and 11 AM), one in the afternoon (2.30 PM) and a night dive at 6 PM.

After a dive briefing from our Divemasters on the mothership, our guests board the two skiffs that each accommodate up to nine divers plus Divemaster, who always dive with the group and the Skiff Driver. After a short ride, each of the skiffs will reach a different dive site that is switched on the following dive allowing the two groups to dive the same areas but at different times of the day.

On the way to or from the divesites it is very common to find exciting snorkeling opportunities with Pacific Mantas, Bottlenose Dolphins or even a Bait Ball that will keep the adrenaline brewing all day long.

Between the dives, as the tanks are being refilled there is time for Sea Kayaking or to go back on the skiffs for a photo tour or land excursions.

Due to the remoteness of both Cocos and Malpelo, safety is an absolute priority at all times.

Our Captains are qualified with internationally recognized seafaring licenses. Many of our crew are Medic First Aid Instructors or are trained for basic first aid and as DAN O2 providers. All our crews maintain peak performance skills for emergencies like Man Overboard, Lost Diver Searches, Fire at Sea and more.

Since the nearest hyperbaric facility in San Jose is 1.5 sailing days away, we must maintain a safe diving practice within the recreational diving limits. Thus decompression dives are not permitted and a maximum depth of 130 ft. / 40 m. is imposed. To increase safety and bottom time while maintaining safe non-decompression dives the use of Nitrox becomes essential.

DAN O2 Emergency kits are present on all of our skiffs as well as on the mother ship.

The total isolation of these Islands and the prevailing ocean currents play a major roll in our emergency plan and readiness for when divers might drift away from the dive sites. With the frequent rainsqualls, surface conditions are unpredictable at times. For this reason we have hired and trained highly skilled skiff operators who have the knowledge and the know how to search and locate divers even in the most extreme conditions.

We conduct a short dive briefing before each dive including the points of interest of the specific dive. All dives are lead by our dive master. The buddy dive system is obligatory. A 60-minute maximum dive time is enforced.

We further provide all guests with our Safety Kit that includes an extra-large orange dive sausage, a powerful storm whistle and a special safety light. Furthermore after one year of testing several Radio Diver Locator systems, we have found the symbiosis that fully satisfies our rigorous standards. The ACR miniature Personal EPIRB together with a high-tech Radio Direction Finder from Sea Marshall will help locate a drift diver more than five miles away. These electronic units are fixed to the individual divers BCD. An on-board homing receiver will guide the vessel towards the missing diver, and these units will also transmit the marine international distress signal that is monitored by all ships and coast guard vessels.

Several excursions on the island can be planned during our trips. Most popular is the visit to the isolated Ranger Station at Chatham Bay where pirates, whalers and yesteryear’s visitors left their ships names carves in stone on the numerous boulders along the beautiful sandy beach.

Other excellent options are walks to one of the beautiful waterfalls where, after a short hike through the impressive tropical jungle, you can take a treasured bath in one or several fresh water pools.
Also available, depending on weather, are guided tours of the trail linking Chatham and Wafer bays. This hike offers marvelous panoramas of Cocos shores and a rare glimpse of the Island’s dense rain forest. One of Cocos endemic birds, the Cocos Finch is a common and curios companion along this trail. So unaccustomed to human presence, they can almost be touched.


For the serous hikers among us, a long 8 hours trek to Cerro Yglesias summit, the highest peak in Cocos, can be planed with prior arrangement and the permission of the national park rangers. A visit to the main park ranger installation at Wafer Bay and its adjacent stream and forest can be arranged when sea conditions permit a safe beach landing.