Dive Sites
San Jose Del Cabo
Just minutes from the marina, San José’s local reefs offer calm conditions, healthy coral, and a surprising variety of marine life. The majority of these sites are unknown to the world, as the East Cape team discovered them!
Highlights:
- Short boat rides — most sites within 10–20 minutes
- Ideal for new divers, refreshers, and snorkelers
- Colorful reef fish, turtles, rays, and macro life
- Great option for half-day diving adventures
Escalera is a relaxed, easygoing dive site perfect for beginners or anyone brushing up on skills. Despite the gentle conditions, it often surprises with its high fish density and variety of sea urchins and small reef life. On a good day, this can be one of the most life-filled shallow dives in the area.
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A vibrant and shallow dive site with a sandy bottom and healthy coral growth. Zacatitos is known for its relaxed conditions and wildlife sightings including turtles, octopus, moray eels, and large schools of fish. It’s a favorite for both divers and snorkelers looking for color and calm.
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Skywalker features two dramatic underwater pinnacles that attract larger marine life and act as natural cleaning stations. You’ll often find turtles, rays, and occasionally sharks cruising by. It’s a deeper, more advanced site best suited to experienced divers.
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Palmilla blends two beautiful reef systems into one lush, life-filled dive site. Expect soft corals, vibrant gorgonians, and schools of jacks and porkfish, with turtles and cleaning stations throughout. Coral cover here is among the best in the region, making it a standout for reef lovers.
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El Salinar features a mysterious shipwreck split into three large sections, now overtaken by marine life and coral. The site is shallow and easy to explore, with lots of nooks for macro life and excellent photo opportunities. It’s also a hit with snorkelers when conditions allow.
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Gordo Banks
Gordo Banks is Baja’s most iconic pelagic dive site — a pair of deep offshore seamounts that rise from the seafloor to within recreational diving limits. Located just off the coast of San José del Cabo, these underwater pinnacles attract hammerheads, silky sharks, tuna, and more. It’s an advanced dive with potentially big rewards for those ready to drift into the blue.
Highlights:
- Offshore blue water diving at two seamounts
- Frequent encounters with hammerhead and silky sharks
- Potential sightings of tuna, jacks, rays, and even marlin!
- Deep dives up to 130 feet / 40 meters
- Open-ocean drift diving experience for advanced divers
Located approximately 7 miles offshore from San José del Cabo, the Inner Gordo Banks is a submerged seamount whose peak rises to about 100 feet (30 meters) below the surface. This site is renowned for attracting a variety of pelagic species, including schooling hammerhead sharks, silky sharks, tuna, and marlin. The nutrient-rich currents that flow around the seamount support a vibrant ecosystem, making it a prime location for observing large marine life. This is an advanced dive that is completed in open water with no reference.
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Situated further offshore, the Outer Gordo Banks is a deeper dive site, with depths starting around 250 feet (76 meters). This area is less frequented but offers a good chance of encountering large pelagic species, such as hammerhead sharks, due to its deeper waters and stronger currents. The site is characterized by its open blue water, never seeing the bottom, and the potential for sightings of various shark species and other large marine animals.
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The Corridor
Stretching between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, the Corridor is home to some of the most scenic and diverse reef diving in Baja. With protected bays, coral-covered reefs, and dramatic rock formations, this area offers something for every diver — from easy shallow dives to deeper explorations. It’s a favorite for marine life encounters and calm, relaxed conditions.
Highlights:
- Easy access from both Cabo and San José del Cabo
- Calm bays ideal for beginners, training, and snorkeling
- Colorful reefs teeming with tropical fish, rays, and turtles
- Dramatic underwater landscapes with boulders and crevices
- Flexible dive site options based on conditions
Chileno Bay is a lively, protected reef that offers shallow, easy diving with colorful marine life around every corner. Perfect for beginners and snorkelers, it features calm waters, healthy sea fans, and occasional sightings of turtles, white tip reef sharks, and rays. It’s one of the most accessible and popular sites along the Corridor.
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Gavilanes sits between Chileno and Santa Maria, boasting one of the healthiest coral reefs in the area. Expect sightings of lobsters, angelfish, groupers, and even white tip reef sharks among interesting ridges and canyons. The site offers calm, shallow conditions perfect for all certification levels.
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Blow Hole is a dramatic site known for its massive boulders, crevices, and a nearby blowhole in the cliffs. Divers can spot schools of jacks, pufferfish, turtles, and occasionally rays cruising along the reef and small wall. It’s an exciting spot with a mix of shallow and deeper profiles.
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Santa Maria Bay offers easy, protected diving ideal for spotting reef fish, rays, and nudibranchs. The shallow reef gently slopes down from the beach, packed with tropical fish and the occasional surprise visitor like a turtle or grouper. Surge can sometimes be felt but currents are typically mild.
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Cabo San Lucas Marine Park
Located inside the Cabo San Lucas Marine Park, these protected dive sites offer incredible diversity just minutes from the marina. You can join our sister company Dive Cabo and enjoy everything from playful sea lions to dramatic vertical walls. Calm conditions, abundant life, and the famous sandfalls make Cabo’s bay one of the region’s most famous places to dive.
Highlights:
- Protected marine park with rich biodiversity
- Easy access — all sites within 5 minutes boat ride
- Frequent sea lion, ray, and reef fish encounters
- Dive with our sister company, Dive Cabo
- Ideal for beginners through advanced divers
Land’s End is where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez, creating an unforgettable dive site. Expect playful encounters with a resident sea lion colony, schools of cow-nose rays, baitfish, snappers and more. You’ll also find the remains of the “Nürnberg” shipwreck sitting around 40 feet.
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Pelican Rock is a calm, protected site ideal for divers of all levels and snorkelers alike. The reef starts shallow and slopes gradually down to a deep canyon, home to a famous underwater sandfall and schools of tropical fish. Expect sightings of moray eels, mobula rays, pufferfish, and scorpionfish.
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Middle Wall offers a sheer vertical drop that disappears into the deep blue, giving divers an amazing sensation of weightlessness. The wall is rich with marine life including groupers, rays, frogfish, and nudibranchs. It connects with the sandfall area near Pelican Rock.
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Neptune’s Finger features a stunning vertical wall and the largest sandfall in the marine park. The reef begins shallow and then drops steeply into deep water, with a ray cleaning station, and frequent sightings of turtles, groupers, and sometimes even schools of mobula rays. It’s a must-dive site for anyone visiting Cabo.
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North Wall is a great option for all levels, offering a rock-covered slope full of hidden marine life. Divers often find moray eels, lobsters, pufferfish, and scorpionfish tucked into the reef. During summer months, even seahorses have been spotted along the rocks.
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