Dos Amigos Pequeño - Cocos Island
Batente das Agulhas offers a drift dive along a wall that drops to a sandy bottom. We often spot nurse sharks resting and schools of grunts hanging out in the crevices. Visibility can be excellent here, making it a good spot for wide-angle photography. It's a fairly relaxed dive, suitable for divers comfortable with current.
- Location
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Central America
- Coordinates
- 5.510000, -87.100000
- Type
- pinnacle
- Maximum Depth
- 15-30m
Marine Protected Area: Isla del Coco
Nearby Dive Sites in Cocos Island
- Alcyone - 25-40m (cave)
- Bait Balls
- Bajo Alcyone (pinnacle)
- Bajo Dos Amigos
- Dirty Rock - 15-40m (pinnacle)
- Dirty Rock
- Dos Amigos - Big
- Dos Amigos Grande
- 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