Costa Rica´s first cultures were those of the whales and dolphins- the Cetaceans. Dive into their big blue world. Look upon, kayak and swim the waters they depend on. Learn how connected we all are. We are the voice of the dolphins, the whales and the waters. Let our words, photos, and videos guide you. Then come see the real thing. New photos, videos or articles biweekly. With Costa Cetacea the least you could get is the best of two oceans, two coasts, and all the waters in between-One Love.
Did you ever dream of swmming through the deep blue sea?
Do you want to see a spinner dolphin spin?
How about swim surrounded by giant tuna?
How about free dive with giant manta rays, turtles, or mahi mahi?
Maybe you would like to see a wild forest spring turn into a creek, into a waterfall, into a river, into the sea, in an hour?
How about float over a shallow coral reef, right off the jungle drenched beach.
Or maybe you just want to learn about these water ecosytems?
Can´t wait for action? Get virtually wet in Costa Rica right now with a Costa Cetacea Video Guide. Go for the Pacific´s Osa Blue Water Pelagic Ecosystem Guide below. Or try the Caribbean´s Manzanillo, Talamanca, Video Guide further down. All footage and photos on this website shot on location in Costa Rica by Costa Cetacea guides. Imagine what we can show you on the biggest screen ever-real life. Pure Life. Pura Vida.
When you swim in the blue water pelagic of Osa, you are the reef.
Clean, clear rivers mean clean, clear oceans. Agujas River Kayak. Only Osa.
As tourism has grown in Talamanca, many people have stopped hunting Manatee to eat. Sightings have been increasing big time in the past year. This one is right in front of Manzanillo Beach, Talamanca, Limon, Costa Rica, Lonely Planet's Best Beach in Costa Rica. October 2009. Click the manatee to check out more of Manzanillo Caribe.
We will show you right here online at Costa Cetacea. And we can show you the real thing right here in Caletas and Drake Bay and the offshore Pacific of Osa or Caribe style in Manzanillo, Punta Uva, Punta Mona and offshore.
This site has new articles and photos weekly about Costa Rica's marine and aquatic life and resources, especially the Pacific´s Osa peninsula, Drake´s Bay, Caletas, Punta Marenco National Wildlife Refuge, Rincon, Playa San Josecito, Punta Campanario, Corcovado National Park and Cano Island Biological Reserve, and Sierpe, as well as The Caribbean´s Cahuita, Puerto Viejo, Playa, Chicita, Punta Uva, Ned Creek, Manzanillo, Punta Mona and The Gandoca Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge in Talamanca, Limon, Caribe, Costa Rica.
Help us save Cetaceans and the ecosystems they depend on by taking a journey through, and falling in love with, their home and the places that affect them. Come dive in to their big blue world. Paddle the sweet waters that flow to their sea. Try to think like a dolphin.
We will take you from gurgling forest creeks to the unfathomable offshore open ocean. From otters to dolphins, from baby fish to fish bigger than you, from giant trees, to giant turtles, to giant tuna. From the rainforest right to the reef. We will kayak, swim, dive and learn. You can check it all out on your screen and get dialled in to see the real thing.
Take the voyage of water and learn about the connectedness of Costa Rica´s most biodiverse ecosystem; the rainforest, with her most bioproductive; the open ocean, known as the pelagic ecosystem.
We think the dolphins and whales have a dream, they want you to know about how the fresh from the sky raindrop on your mountain top flows to their salty sea. They want freedom from deadly nets and pollution and oppression of their cultures. They want you to stop eating shrimp and canned tuna. They want us to become more aware of the cycle of water.
You can see it all in one day, bubbling spring to blue sea. That´s how fast water moves in places like Osa and Talamanca Costa Rica. You will see that what we put in the water rather quickly ends up with the Cetaceans.
Come listen to what the water and the whales have to say.
But of course you want to learn more online right now, so check out our videos, photos and words and dive into Costa Cetacea.
Call 506 8886 9431 or 506 8835 6041 to talk to a guide. Reserve thru email at shawndive@yahoo.com, may take up to 5 days.
Experience the natural magic of pelagic with Shawn Larkin, the guide and tour Lonely Planet´s Central America on a Shoestring says are the “one to splurge on,” and comes “highly recommended” by the crew of the upcoming Disneynature and Galatee Films production Oceans The Movie, due out Earth Day 2010, April 22.
This is now the official site to reserve a tour with Shawn Larkin while you are staying at any Drake Bay, Caletas, Marenco, Sierpe or Corcovado area hotel, lodge or cabinas, including pick up and drop off.
YOU CAN NO LONGER BOOK TRIPS WITH SHAWN LARKIN THROUGH DRAKE BAY WILDERNESS RESORT OR COSTA RICA ADVENTURE DIVERS, JINETES DE OSA. WE CAN PICK YOU AT WHEN YOU STAY AT THESE HOTELS BUT YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR SPACE HERE, NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED.
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Call 506 8886 9431 or 506 8835 6041 to talk to a guide or a make a quick reservation. Reserve thru email at shawndive@yahoo.com, may take up to 5 days.
One Love
See the some of the stars of Oceans The Movie from Galatee Films and Disneynature by clicking the spinner dolphin above.
All hail the King. This adult male orca swimming in Osa´s blue water pelagic is part of the largest population of Orcas outside of Antartica. Costa Cetacea´s blue water pelagic dive tour is the best tour in Costa Rica, because not only can you see the biggest beings on the planet, you get to see perhaps the worlds highest marine bioproductivity. And as the following photos will show, you never know what you are going to see.
You will not see nurse sharks or reef whitetips on the blue water pelagic dive. These silkys, like most big pelagics, are denizens of the deep, in other words pelagic
The best time to see spinner dolphins in Costa Rica is January through the end of April. The blue water pealgic of the Osa is the best place to see massive groups of these marine mammals. Click to learn more about Costa Rica´s amazing spinner dolphins
swimming with stripped marilin. Osa blue water pelagic
The Caribbeans´s Bloody Coral Reef, Manzanillo, Talamanca, Limon, Costa Rica. Thats a little nurse shark in the back. Click to go Caribe.
Take a drop with Costa Cetacea. Kayak surf, Drake Bay, Osa
False killer whale and Cano Island Biological Reserve offshore of Osa peninsula and Corcovado National Park. The same group of False Killer Whales have been hunting along their same "Whale Trail" for many years. These huge marine mammals, (compared to you when you are in the water) have interacted with people in amazing ways not known of this wild animal in other places. Click to find out how these false killer whales give fresh fish to people in Osa, Costa Rica.
A floating rainforest tree can bring a reefs worth of sealife to the blue water pelagic.
Sunset kayak surfing, Caribe Style, Manzanillo, Talamanca, Limon. Click for more Caribbean Costa Rica.
Costa Rica's spinner dolphins offshore of the Osa peninsula's Corcovado National Park and Cano Island Biological Reserve. Click to learn more.
masked booby speads his wings Osa blue water pelagic
spinner dolphin in the clouds Osa blue water pelagic.This photo was taken by Shawn Larkin while working as chief guide for Costa Rica´s spinner dolphins and Osa's blue water pelagic for the upcoming Disneynature and Galatee Films movie Oceans to be released on Earth Day 2010. Click to learn
see the lights of blue water pelagic. This is a ctenophore or comb jelly, one of the most common denizens of the deep of the Osa blue water pelagic ecosystem. There are many kinds, they do not sting, and the little animals are exceedingly beautiful to behold.
Great Hammerhead shark. Respect. Blue water Pelagic
humpback whales off the Osa, note bite marks on tail
Caribbean coral reef steps off the beach of Manzanillo, Talamanca, Costa Rica. Click to learn more.
A brown booby checks out the deep blue. Osa blue water pelagic
They are the third largest member of the dolphin family, after Orcas and Pilot Whales. The tribe that needs your help. False killer whales, Psuedorca crassidens, in the Osa, Costa Rica blue water pelagic dive offshore of Drake Bay, Caletas, Cano Island and Corcovado. 2010 Click to learn more about these wonder inspiring
Orca in Osa´s blue water pelagic, Costa Rica. This incredible belly up display may be an elaborate greeting.
lose yourself in the big blue
More birds than the rainforest, Osa blue water pelagic. Lots of birds over the water like this usually mean really high bioproductivity. Click to learn more.
mucho pelagic trigger fish 1000 meters above the bottom
Spinner dolphins swim in blue water pelagic off shore of Drake Bay, Caletas, and Marenco Osa. Click to find out who´s killing them.
The Caribbean Coral Reef of Manzanillo, Talamanca, Costa Rica. Only 20 feet down, five minuets from the beach and dive shop.
Swimming in the big blue water pelagic ecosystem with a olive riddley turtle, Osa, Costa Rica
Flying Tuna in Osa' s Blue Water Pelagic, Costa Rica. Click to find out how these fish pal around with dolphins, and that makes all of them end up in very big nets.
Costa Rica Spinner Dolphins dance in the setting sun. This photo was taken by Shawn Larkin while working as chief guide for Costa Rica´s spinner dolphins and Osa's blue water pelagic for the upcoming Disneynature and Galatee Films movie Oceans to be released on Earth Day 2010. Click the sun or the dolphin to find out more about Oceans-The Movie.
all shots from Osa´s blue water pelagic and Talamanca, Limon´s Manzanillo by shawn larkin 2009 All rights reserved.
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