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Fajardo (main Island)

Info & Marine life (19)

Dive centers (2)

Flights & Beds

Description:
Fajardo is one of the most originally beautiful spots on the island's shores. Fajardo is a major boating center, with a wide range of rentals and charters available, with daily and sport-diving excursions as well as scheduled ferries and air service carrying passengers and cargo to Culebra and Vieques. Puerto del Rey Marina, home of 750 ships, is the largest in the Caribbean. Fajardo's perfect beaches are bounded by calm, clear water ideal for snorkeling, Seven Seas Beach, offers plentiful water sports facilities, offshore points for sailing, snorkeling and plenty of scuba diving.

Details:

Nearest commercial airport: San Juan

Average watertemp: Min 25 - Max 30 ^oCelcius.

Average visibility: 10 Horizontal metres

Bottom composition: Sand, Corals, Rocks

Dive conditions: Ocean/Sea, Salt water

Marinelife in the area:

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Atlantic humpback dolphins

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Bottlenose Dolphins

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The Bottlenose calve in April.

Bull sharks (Zambezi/Whaler)

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Coastal fish & Reef Life

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blue tangs, seargent majors, trumpet fish, christmas tree worms, flamingo tongues, blennies, barrel coral, sea fans, damsel fish.

Coral Spawning

60 > 90%

Full Moon

Eagle rays

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You can see Spotted Eagle Rays all year around.

Great Hammerhead sharks

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Green turtles

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Green Turtles lay their eggs in March & April.

Hawksbill turtles

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Humpback whales

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Kemps Ridley turtles

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Loggerhead turtles

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Manatees

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Grassy sandy areas

Manta rays

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Moray eels

90 > 100%

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Nurse sharks

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Pelagic fish

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King Mackerel, horseback mackerel and sardinella

Sardine Trek

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Stingrays

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Found in sandy or grassy bottoms, night dives are the best to see these.

Probability of encounter:

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90 > 100%