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Dive Little Corn

Dive Shops (English)

Service:
  • Accommodation for Divers
  • Diving Charter Boat
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • PADI
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Shark diving
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Underwater Publications Prints
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
Company description On Little Corn Island, Casa Iguana has opened the first and only PADI scuba diving shop in Nicaragua. You can now earn your open water certification, and dive the virgin reefs around Little Corn Island from a full service dive shop.
Little Corn Island is a small, remote Caribbean island, unspoiled by tourism and development. It is English speaking. There are no cars, no jet skis, little in the way of crass commercialism, nightlife and gift shopping. If you like places like Cancun and Freeport, this might not be a destination that would interest you.
The island`s reef offers a variety of unique diving adventures, from caves and caverns to un-chummed shark encounters. There are beautiful corals and sponges, and virtually every reef fish classified as Tropical Caribbean.
Our shop is small and laid back. We do not use cattle boats. We dive from a comfortable and fully equipped dive-designed panga. We cater to divers of all levels, though there is a decidedly low-tech atmosphere and focus to what we do.
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.
Location description: The Corn Islands are two Caribbean islands approximately 50 miles off the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. Once ruled by the British, they are now part of the Autonomous Region of Nicaragua, and are largely self-governed. They are still un-spoiled by major development and ``cruise-ship style`` tourism, and have much to offer the adventurous traveler in the way of sights, accommodations, and natural beauty. The people here (who speak primarily English, as well as Spanish) are warm and friendly, and are genuine in their welcoming and helpful manner.
Little Corn Island, the most pristine and least developed of the two, isn`t tarnished by the noise and congestion of cars. This works well here because the dive shop, the hotels, restaurants, and beaches, are all within easy walking distance of each other.
Besides diving and snorkeling, visitors can also enjoy:
•Outstanding Deep-Sea and Fly Fishing.
•Hiking along beautiful beaches, and natural forest trails.
•Ocean Kayaking.
•Horseback riding.
•And a wonderful, relaxed, and unspoiled Caribbean setting where lying in a hammock and enjoying the ocean breeze is a favorite local pastime.
Come and see how the rest of the Caribbean was 30 years ago!
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.

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Dive shop and school with PADI certification on Little Corn Island, Nicaragua. Information on local dive sites, accommodations, and advice on travel plans.

Contact information:
Street Address:

Casa Iguana
Nicaragua
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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