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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

The Dive Crew

Audrey & Andrew

Coming from managing a PADI Gold Palm Resort in Roatan, Honduras for the past year and a half, Audrey and Andrew bring genius and good looks that can hardly be believed, plus a great death metal CD collection! Okay, just kidding (but not about the CD’s)…..

As a PADI IDC Staff Instructor and Master Instructor respectively, they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from work and travel throughout Central America. Originally from the USA, Audrey is also fluent in Spanish. Andrew, a Canadian, has a very big beard.

Esteban

“El Huachinango” comes to us from Monterrey, Mexico. Trained to the highest standards in Utila, Honduras, Esteban was lured from his former dive shop to become our Head Divemaster by the promise of off-the-beaten-path living and great diving. Fluent in Spanish, English, French, and some Italian, he is the master of finding macro life. Challenge him to a nudibranch contest – we dare you!

Charles

Our interim 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.

Jorge
Our smiling skipper has been with the shop almost from the beginning. Jorge is the backbone of the dive shop. He is a wonderful skipper and a confident diver. As long as Jorge smiles, every thing is just fine.

Shana
Our new shop assistant: Shana Local island girl, mother of one young boy named Kish, brings the island flavour to the dive shop. Born and bred on Little Corn, Shana is a wonderful help on the daily running of the dive shop, the place would not be the same without her.

Lolo
Lolo, a 17 year old Nicaraguan. He is a fan of the ocean and his constant smile amuses all people aboard the dive boat. A newly certified captain, Lolo is a huge help to the team.

Bob "Uncle Bob" comes from Dallas and is a skilled dive instructor. Bob first came to the island in September 2002 with a dive group for a dive holiday and fell in love with the island. He's been coming back each year for a work stint since.