Bajo Dos Amigos - Cocos Island
Bajo Dos Amigos is one of Cocos’ more dramatic sites. We've dropped into the blue here and quickly found ourselves surrounded by schooling hammerheads, often hundreds of them gliding by. It’s a site for experienced divers comfortable with deeper profiles and strong currents, as the action happens in the open water around a seamount. Keep an eye out for marble rays too; they often cruise past.
- Location
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Central America
- Coordinates
- 5.507409, -87.095146
Marine Protected Area: Isla del Coco
Nearby Dive Sites in Cocos Island
- Alcyone - 25-40m (cave)
- Bait Balls
- Bajo Alcyone (pinnacle)
- Dirty Rock - 15-40m (pinnacle)
- Dirty Rock
- Dos Amigos - Big
- Dos Amigos Grande
- Dos Amigos Pequeño - 15-30m (pinnacle)
- Dos Amigos - Small
- Isla Cascara - 15-35m (wall)
- Isla Manuelita - 10-35m (wall)
- Isla Pajara
- Lobster Rock
- Manuelita Deep
- Manuelita Garden (reef)
Marine Life in Cocos Island
Home to 291 recorded species including 245 reef fish, 28 sharks & rays, 8 whales & dolphins, 3 other, 3 sea cucumbers, 1 starfish.
Notable Species
- Agujon Needlefish (Tylosurus acus) - Reef Fish
- Blackfish (Melichthys niger) - Reef Fish
- Salmon (Elagatis bipinnulata) - Reef Fish
- Cortez Rainbow Wrasse (Thalassoma lucasanum) - Reef Fish
- Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis) - Reef Fish
- Notchfin Blenny (Entomacrodus chiostictus) - Reef Fish
- Ocean Triggerfish (Canthidermis maculata) - Reef Fish
- Giant Hawkfish (Cirrhitus rivulatus) - Reef Fish
- Coral Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus) - Reef Fish
- Kingston (Decapterus macarellus) - Reef Fish
- Devilfish (Ophioblennius atlanticus) - Reef Fish
- Mexican hogfish (Bodianus diplotaenia) - Reef Fish
- Ring-tailed Surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus) - Reef Fish
- Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) - Sharks & Rays
- Giant damselfish (Microspathodon dorsalis) - Reef Fish
- Kihikihi (Zanclus cornutus) - Reef Fish
- Cowfish (Tursiops truncatus) - Whales & Dolphins
- Bluefish (Kyphosus vaigiensis) - Reef Fish
- Whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) - Sharks & Rays
- Glasseye Snapper (Heteropriacanthus cruentatus) - Reef Fish