I was shore diving in the bay of pigs. No boats.
In fact that bay looked empty everytime I was there. The thing to see was a 200 meter drop off about 80 meters from shoe. There was a small wreck but it was at 20 meters depth or so.


Near Santiago.
The Brisas Sierra Mare Cubacan diving center. Three diving boats. Easy to secure inland and high ground is very, very easy to find there.

However the diving center 10 meters from the shore with a mangrove swamp about 100 meter inland.

As for that big catamaran. Hmmmmmmm.

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there's a place called CUEVA DE LAS PESCAS en route from Playa Larga to Giron. It's marked with a dive flag, and looks like a small campground. You walk a ways inland to an inland lagoon. Turns out, the first 5 meters or so is freshwater, but under that, it is brackish. At the bottom of this what looks like a pond, there is a yellow unexploded (harmless?) bomb from the Bay of Pigs invasion. There is also an entrance to a cave that takes you to about 125 - 130 feet. The cave is set up with a guide line. Given the depth, bottom time isn't much, but when you look up, you can see a fissure in the surface, all the way up, and the light glimmers down into the depths. Not much of anything down there except for more cave boulders.

The divemaster there for the longest time was a guy who called himself, "Pappa". Relatively young guy at the time (this goes back several years), one of the preeminent divers in Cuba, nad a good dude. I learned a couple of years later that he died of complications related to repeated deep diving presumably while under the influence of alcohol. RIP, Pappa. I, for one, cannot and refuse to forget the dive that day...or the impact your brief part of my life you had.

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I was over there last year, asked for a dive. Result: cause of an accident diving isn't allowed anymore for the public, only snorceling.
Hope they will change their mind in the future.

Not at all a interesting place; many big fish, some huge crabs. The couple of copperfish in the sidearm (left side, if you are in front of the cueva) is very curious; if you stay quite in the water, after 1-2 minutes they come really close.

Btw. in my case there was the brackish and salty water always at the surface, in a depth of 1m may be the salt concentration similar like the ocean. May be it depends on weather and the tide.

My bad...the cave and the water below the freshwater surface is fed by the ocean water in Playa Larga, through the maze of the complex caves that are down there.

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Diving accidents. I wish Cubacan would cough up the money for aluminum tanks.

The steel tanks they have. I am a bit concerned that some fleck of rust will jam into the air way out of the tank. Happened once but not to me. Another guy.

As for surfacing without a boat present. Doesn't bother me but it scared the he11 out of a wife husband diving pair there. They were traumatized.

The Canadian, German and I did not give shyte but that couple. Cheeeeeez.

When I started diving I had nothing but mask, snorkel, regulator, tank and weights. A wet suit when I dove up here. T-shirt when I was down south.
No BC, no gauges and no spare regulator.

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