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Diving and Snorkeing in Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Diving and Snorkeling
Diving and snorkeling in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, is a very popular sport. There are many dive shops in town where you can fill your tanks and arrange for a diving excursion. While diving in the Sea of Cortez off Loreto's white sandy beaches, you will encounter undercuts, rocky floors, walls and overhangs. There are also vast reef systems and even ship wrecks. Underwater visibility while snorkeling and diving in the Sea of Cortez is roughly 50 to 100 feet or more.
Diving in Loreto is blessed with 250 km of coastline and 14 interesting islands stretching for 100 miles off Loreto's coast: Coronado, Isla Carmen, Catalina, Montserrate, and Danzante which are all part of a marine park known as the "Bay of Loreto National Marine Park. The park was created by presidential decree and approved by the Mexican Federal Congress on July 19, 1996. The marine park consist of over 2,065 square kilometers and was inscribed to the UN list of Protected World Heritage Sites. The national marine park is a refuge to diverse marine life of over 800 species of fish unique to the Sea of Cortez.
Back in 1986, there were easily just as many divers diving in Baja as there were fisherman, and that hasn't changed. Baja Mexico's Sea of Cortez currently has schools of dolphins, 6-ft long Humboldt squid, whale pods, large sea turtles and sea lion harems, giant manta rays, hammerhead sharks and seasonal whale sharks, sea fans, black coral and other sea water invertebrates. Snorkeling in the Sea of Cortez has always been very popular because the water temperature is from the high 60's to the low 70's (°F) in the winter and spring and up to the mid 80's (°F) in the summer and fall. You can't beat that for snorkeling in Baja or anywhere else. Top