Open Water Courses
Diving in Puerto Morelos is available all year long with conditions being the best between March and November. The average air temperature ranges from 25C/77F to 30C/86F. The coldest time of the year is from December to February while the warmest from July to August. The average water temperature stays around 20C/86F with water visibility ranging between 20-40m/60-120ft year-round.
What to see
The underwater landscape is quite remarkable and is teeming with marine life, including hundreds of varieties of fish along with barracudas, turtles, eels, rays and occasionally a nurse shark.
Located between Playa del Carmen and Cancun (where the closest airport is located), Puerto Morelos is a famous diving destination among divers. Puerto Morelos is home to the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second largest reef in the world. The section of the reef located directly in front of the town is a National Park. It provides some of the most amazing diving in the Mayan Rivera. Dive sites off Puerto Morelos are available for divers of all levels. Tourists come here from all over the world to practice reef diving, cave and wreck diving as well as to dive the world's famous Cenotes.
The most popular dive sites around Puerto Morelos are Puentes, The Gardens, The Shipwreck "Juan Escutia C-56" and The Shark Caves.
