Route Description - Cocos Island Adventure
The Cocos Island liveaboard expedition explores a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for thrilling big-animal encounters and spectacular underwater pinnacles. Dive iconic sites such as Alcyone, Dirty Rock and Manuelita, where schooling hammerhead sharks, manta rays, marble rays and whitetip reef sharks patrol the currents. Weather permitting, guests can also explore Cocos Island’s lush jungle trails and refreshing waterfalls, combining world-class diving with an unforgettable wilderness experience.
Alcyone — A submerged seamount rising to around 75 feet below the surface, attracting schooling hammerhead sharks, manta rays and other pelagic fish, with possible sailfish and marlin sightings.
Big Dos Amigos — A dramatic islet featuring a 45-foot-high arch and a submerged pinnacle, where rainbow runners, yellowtail snappers, bigeye jacks and lobsters can be found alongside passing hammerheads.
Bird Island, Chatham Bay — A diverse dive site offering frogfish, lobsters, moray eels, rays, whitetip sharks and hammerheads, as well as a marine life cleaning station.
Dirty Rock — A prominent rocky formation known for schools of marble rays and hammerhead sharks.
Lone Stone — A rewarding site for observing schooling marble rays and mobula rays.
Manuelita — The northeastern corner features a sheer wall frequented by whitetip sharks, marble rays and schools of creole fish.
Ubing Rock, Wafer Bay — A 300-foot rock formation rising from a sandy bottom at around 110 feet, with its southeastern slope attracting schools of hammerhead sharks.
Special Marine Life Sightings
Cocos Island is renowned for encounters with whale sharks, mating eagle rays, sailfish, mating whitetip sharks and false killer whales.