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The dive shop features a full range of all-new rental gear including BCDs, regulators, fins, masks, snorkels, weights and belts, dive lights, and "shorty" wetsuits.

We run 3 dive trips daily: 9 am, 11:30 am and 2 pm. Night dives are by appointment. Snorkel trips and Hobie Kayak rentals are offered too.

Our dive boats are relatively small, custom built with individual tank racks and provide for a safe and intimate diving experience. Our daily dive trips include sites for both the inexperienced and the advanced diver. We will be happy to customize our trips for your group.

scuba, dive, Little Corn Island, NicaraguaOur PADI instructors teach a wide variety of courses, from Discover Scuba Diving (often called a resort course) to PADI Open Water Diver and up to Dive Master certifications. To give yourself more time in the water while you are here, you may also opt to do your classroom work in your home town, then do the water work with us, completing your certification after presenting us with a referral letter from your classroom instructor.

So, what's the diving like?

The island is protected on three sides by an intricate barrier reef system, which features a wide and healthy variety of corals, sponges and marine animal life. There are some 20 different dives sites located all around the island. The boat trip from the dive shop to the dive site takes between 5 to 15 minutes. Average depth is between 30 to 80 feet, which allows safe and long bottom times, which often go 55 minutes or longer, air supply permitting. Our conditions are excellent for the underwater photography enthusiast. Year round water temperatures average 28 degrees Celsius (82 degrees Fahrenheit) and visibility is around 50 feet.

scuba, dive, Little Corn Island, NicaraguaOur underwater scenery is varied and diverse. White Holes, for example, is a dive off the north end of the island. There are white sands, huge stag horn coral formations, plenty of nurse sharks sleeping on the bottom, eagle rays, porcupine puffers, spotted drums and schools of many other Caribbean tropical fishes.There is Shark Hole where black tip, reef and bull sharks swim with you as you negotiate a network of caverns and swim-throughs underneath the reef. Tarpon Channel is a dive right in front of Casa Iguana. This cut through the reef has wild rock formations and overhangs, schools of eagle rays and lookdowns and, yes, Tarpon. On several occasions we've had close encounters with a large resident hammerhead shark and we even have the photos to prove it.Virtually every site provides the likelihood of spotting schools of barracudas, jacks, African pompanos as well as Big kingfish, permit, Cobia and more.




Meet The Dive Crew

Shell and Clint

Clint and Shell have been managing Dive Little Corn for over a year. As PADI Staff Instructors they each bring more than 6 years of dive experience from Great Britain, Greece, Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam.

Shell is happiest in the water teaching students all the way from Open Water level up to Assistant Instructor. Her favourite course to teach is the Rescue Course, her forte being those ultra-realistic rescue scenarios that keep the students on their toes. Shell also enjoys teaching the Dive Master trainees at Dive Little Corn, this year putting through DLC's first Assistant Instructor candidates.

Clint is the driving force behind the scenes, ensuring the smooth-running of the business and dealing with the difficult logistics of living on a remote island paradise.

Kevin

Our youngest member of the team, Kevin came to us from the Cayman islands where he worked as an underwater photographer and videographer.

Bringing this experience along with his witty South African humor - he has been a welcome addition to the instructor ranks at DLC.

Becky

Becky came to DLC from Mexico where she spent 5 months volunteering with a reef conservation program. She completed her Divemaster and Assistant Instructor courses here with us and recently passed her Instructor exams in Costa Rica.

Becky's enthusiasm for wildlife identification & conservation is contagious and she brings energy to everything she does.

Josh

Prior to joining us as an Instructor here at DLC, Josh spent a year instructing in Mexico where he also found time to complete his IANTD Cave Diver Course.

As well as Cavern Diving, Josh is qualified to teach numerous other specialties - offering training that will broaden your dive skills and experiences.

Charles

Our Captain brings more energy than should be legal to the dive shop. If he’s not hauling 2 sets of gear at a time to or from the boat, he’s bellowing joyful greetings to pretty much everybody in sight. Charles is a master seaman who knows these waters like the back of his hand, and is quite possibly the loudest and happiest person on the island, if not the planet.

 

Danilo

Since the age of four, Danilo has been behind the wheel of a boat. As well as working as a skipper, he is also servicing dive equipment and working towards becoming a PADI DiveMaster.

 

Jefferson

Our newest addition to the skipper team, Jefferson is not only a great captain but also a real charmer and possibly the island’s greatest dancer!

 

Pali

This big friendly giant is also happy to help and may have the biggest smile on the island. Pali is an essential part of the team here at DLC. As caretaker, Pali can be found performing a wide variety of tasks from carrying your equipment and helping you on and off the boat.



 

 

 


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