Join me August 22 - 30, 2025 at the Sea Of Cortez in Mexico for 6 days and 5 nights aboard the MV Valentina, 3 nights in the Baja Club Hotel and a 1 day land based 2-tank dive trip in Cabo Pulmo.
Enjoy spectacular diving in the Southern Baja California Peninsula of Mexico aboard the MV Valentina Liveaboard and after the liveaboard, a land based 2-tank trip to Cabo Pulmo.
We STRONGLY recommend arriving the day before the boat embarks in case of any flight delays or missing baggage.
Liveaboard:
The MV Valentina Liveaboard visits dive sites along the Sea Of Cortez where divers can expect to potentially see Whale Sharks, Sea Lions, Manta Rays, Hammerhead Sharks, HUGE schools of Mobula Rays, Jacks, Grunts, Barracudas and much more amazing marine life.
The M/V Valentina Liveaboard has 10 air-conditioned Cabins, each with an en-suite bathroom. The air-conditioned Dining Room offers excellent cuisine with a variety of Mexican, European and Asian dishes, as well as various drinks, wines and cocktails. The Valentina also has a covered sundeck to enjoy the beautiful views.
We will be diving from 2 zodiac boats in warm waters ranging from 77 - 84 degrees.
Cabo Pulmo:
We also have the 1 day land based dive trip to trip to Cabo Pulmo, "The Aquarium Of The World". Cabo Pulmo is rated as the worlds most successful marine sanctuary. The amount and scale of the sea life there is not to be missed!
Please see the itinerary below for more detailed diving descriptions.
Atlantis Divers is a member of the Marelux VIP Program, and all Atlantis Divers trips will have Marelux underwater photography products to demo for FREE! Try out the latest and greatest underwater photography gear such as the Apollo III Strobes, Lumilink optical transmitter and SOFT snoot!
Included:
Not Included:
Suggested arrival in La Paz, stay overnight at La Paz Malecón Hotel
Transfer to the Liveaboard from hotel or airport. Safety briefing, crew introduction, diving paperwork, cabin allocation and ship orientation will take place before departing the Harbor.
3-4 Dives
Dive Site Suwanee Reef
Suwanee reef is an isolated reef in a white sandy area. Large schools of Mexican Goatfish Skipjacks, Barracudas, and Spottail Grunt fish inhabit this reef, along with occcasional Sea Lions. This reef is also a great macro site with lots of signal blennies.
Dive Site La Reina
La Reina is a great place to find enormous schools of Skipjacks with schools measuring up to 65 feet in diameter. There is a lighthouse at the center of an enormous rock, where Sea Lions reside and often burst through a "wall" of Jacks. “La Reina” has a number of points where you can see a shipwreck and lots of migratory fish. It is also a great place to see Manta Rays with some as large as 16 feet coming here to be cleaned.
3-4 dives
Dive Site El Bajo
El Bajo is known to have Hammerhead Sharks, Whale Sharks and Marlin. There are three seamounts and the pinnacles of the reefs are 60 to 70 ft deep. We will do drift dives here from one of the pinnacles aiming to see Hammerhead Sharks. When diving here, you may be surrounded by hundreds of Bonitos or Skipjacks. Schooling Hammerhead Sharks will often pass by. We may also see Marlin and Whale Sharks swimming past on our descent or ascent.
3-4 dives
Dive Site San Francisquito
This dive site is only accessible by Liveaboard and is a great spot for diving with sea lions. This site is sea lion territory leaving them both calmer and more relaxed and very accessible.
3-4 dives
Sea Lion Point
A scuba diver's paradise in the Sea of Cortez where you can dive with playful sea lions.
Night dive with Mobulas Rays
At night there are a lot of Mobula Rays gathering to the light of the liveaboard to feed on Plankton and other prey. We will dive with these Rays and watch the show play out in our dive lights! Great video opportunity!
2 Dives, then Disembark from the Liveaboard and transfer to the Westmarine Waterfront Hotel.
Shipwreck Salvatiela
Water depth is about 65 feet and there is a 262-ft-length ferry almost in its original condition. This wreck has become home to many reef fish as it sank in a channel where various fish are known to migrate. There are many Grunts and Angelfish living here, and they are all bigger than usual. The wreck can be penetrated for further exploration.
2 dives
Cabo Pulmo National Park
7:15am pick up from hotel, return approximately 6:30pm, lunch served after the second dive.
Cabo Pulmo is a protected National Marine Park and the only hard coral reef in the Gulf of California. The reef of Cabo Pulmo has over 800 species of marine life, hence its nickname, ‘’The Aquarium of the World’’. Home to one of the largest and most diverse coral reefs in North America, it provides a safe haven for over 800 different species. Five of the world’s seven endangered species of Sea Turtles find refuge in Cabo Pulmo and it has the largest collections of Bull Sharks, Tiger Sharks, Hammerhead Sharks, Blacktip and Whitetip Sharks. Enormous Groupers, Turtles and large schools of Jacks are regularly found here.
Go home :(
Check out of the hotel and head to the airport for flights home.
