Custom Cuba Travel

Learn about marine ecology and reef preservation by diving the pristine underwater environments of southern Cuba as part of a people-to-people exchange. Under the warmth of the tropical Cuban sun, learn how this time-warped island has managed to systematically preserve some of the healthiest reef environments in the world.

 

Previously inaccessible to Americans for nearly six decades, we will have the opportunity to dive the reefs and walls off the infamous Bay of Pigs and explore the unspoiled topside and underwater environment of Isla de Juventud (inspiration for “Treasure Island” a Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name) with Cuban dive-masters and staff from the Cuban-American Friendship Society. Experienced divers have claimed that Cuba’s reef and marine environment appear as well-preserved and rich today as they were five decades earlier. 

 

During the trip, experience the treasure that is Havana by spending your initial surface interval time exploring this vibrant and colorful city for a day and a half. Your Cuban and American experts on the marine environment will work in unison to educate participants on the unique challenges facing the reef systems and engage with Cuban dive-masters, marine ecologists and ordinary Cubans passionate about preserving these rich underwater ecosystems for generations to come. Explore underwater environments that Americans have not had access to in over sixty years. Designed for American divers and marine science students and professionals in order to legally travel to and dive in Cuba.