Exceptional Experiences Echoing Eco to Earth from Costa Rica. Biodynamic and Biointensive. Giving voice to dolphins and whales, waves and waters, and all denizens of the deep. Dive into the big blue world virtually right here. Let our words, photos, sounds and videos guide you. Find out how to let us show you the real thing. Newness with the change of every moon. All images from on location by Team Costa Cetacea, your guides on our research adventure ecoexperiences. Dive deep on every page for mucho info. Grande Gracias. Go Good.
Spinner Dolphin Superpod Aerial Photograph. A Osa Costa Rican dolphin super-aggregation or superpod from the air. This may be the most dolphins to appear in one photograph. Dolphin Superpods get together to form dolphin megapods, or a dolphin festival.The largest group of dolphin to appear in one photograph needs your help.
Swimming and seabobbin with dolphins. Costa Rica. Only Osa
Get to know, and 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 connect us to 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 an otter family to dolphin superpods, 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 Ricas most biodiverse ecosystem; the rainforest, with her most bioproductive; the open ocean, known as the blue water 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. They need us to stop burning so much carbon.
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.
Give your voice and be a part of the interspecies communication.
Keep in mind that, in the end, the way we treat the dolphin and whales, will be the way we treat ourselves.
But of course you want to learn more online right now, so check out our videos, photos and words and dive into Costa Cetacea.
Dolphin sunset cruise with spinner dolphins. Only Osa, Costa Rica.
Pelagic Classic Offshore Osa, Costa Rica. Dive in.
This video is THE Classic Pelagic Video, offshore Osa, Costa Rica. No scuba was used for any of the shots. The video is the classic pelagic guide to species commonly seen on pelagic safaris in one small area off of Corcovado National Park and Cano Island Biological Reserve. This open ocean place is only a one hour boat ride from Drake Bay and less than two from Puerto Jimenez and Matapalo. Dive in.
Orcas in Costa Rica. Orcas show up in Costa Rica when they want to. You can not see them anywhere on a regular basis, but they are most frequently reported from offshore of the Osa Peninsula. They like to eat sea turtles, big stringrays, roosterfish, and tuna. And they dine on a lot of other things we do not know about. Belly up displays like the one this adult female Orca is doing under her male are probably a sign of social acceptance and curiosity.
Kayaking and snorkeling the Agujas River, Caletas near Drake Bay, Costa Rica. This is the best way to reach Corcovado Base Camp. Only Osa
Pelagic goby of an unknown species found in a tree trunk floating offshore of the Osa peninsula.
Parque Nacional Corcovado y Reserva Biologica Isla del Cano. Click the island or a tree to find out how take the grandest tour of these crown jewel protected areas.
Diving with Giant Tuna offshore Osa, Costa Rica. Click a tuna if you want to swim with them.
The Deep Blue Sea Costa Rica
Would you take a wild blue water safari?
Do you wanna swim with the big stuff?
Or find the tiny gems?
Did you ever dream of swimming 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?
Would you like to try out out some interspecies communication?
Wanna lend a hand to help some fins? Maybe meet a manatee?
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?
Ever seen a dolphin superpod have superfun?
Would you play with a dolphin megapod having megafun?
Can you imagine riding a Seabob with a Dolphin Superpod?
How about float over a shallow coral reef, right off the jungle drenched beach.
You could float in a clear forest pool listening to waterfalls?
Or maybe you just want to learn about these water ecosystems?
Could you help conserve them?
Where healthy rivers flow to the sea natural bioproductivity go up. Corcovado National Park Costa Rica is really big when you see her from the air. The nutrients she sends seed the blue water pelagic of offshore Osa. Click a tree to take an Osa Air Tour Blue and Green Eco Adventure.
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. Click a snorkler to learn more about this river.
Where wild waterfalls cascade to the sea. 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 lunarly about Costa Rica marine and aquatic life and resources, especially the Pacific Osa peninsula, Drake 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 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.
Experience the natural magic of pelagic with Shawn Larkin, the guide and tour Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring says are the “one to splurge on,” and comes “highly recommended” by the crew of the Disneynature and Galatee Films production hit movie Oceans, 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, inn, tent camp or cabinas, including pick up and drop off.
YOU CAN NO LONGER BOOK TRIPS WITH SHAWN LARKIN THROUGH AGUILA DE OSA INN OR COSTA RICA ADVENTURE DIVERS, HOTEL JINETES DE OSA. WE CAN PICK YOU AT WHEN YOU STAY AT THESE HOTEL, IF YOU MUST, BUT YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR SPACE HERE, as Jinetes de Osa Costa Rica Adventure Divers nor Aguila de Osa Inn meets our Part of the Solution Eco Standards. Please ask if your hotel has proper wastewater treatment and assure they are not destroying waterways and dumping toxins very close to the beach and river. We must conserve the waters to save the rainforest, the coral reefs, the dolphins, the whales and ourselves. Be part of the solution and check out where you stay. It's easy! Yes we can.
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SUP Stand up paddle board surfing Drake Bay, Costa Rica. Catch the wave.
Below and on many other pages here, is the same dolphin tribe in the way cool Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas Make a Wave Video, in action in Oceans of Costa Rica.
See more of the same dolphin who spins in the awesome Make a Wave Video, whose name is Sharkbite, by cruising around this site. Sharkbite and the spinner dolphin tribe have no protected waters in Costa Rica.
Even the new plan to make marine protected areas called Forever Costa Rica does not include an area for these spinner dolphins. They are being killed everyday and desperately need a park, can you help? Maybe Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas could help the dolphins in their video get a park to swim free of nets and tuna dozers with a little publicity to the issue. Pelagic Parks Please for the Osa Spinner Dolphins.
Costa Rica's Spinner Dolphins play in the light of the setting sun offshore of Drake Bay, Osa. This shot was taken during the making of Oceans The Movie by Costa Cetacea´s Shawn Larkin while working as chief guide for spinner dolphins and other pelagic ecosystem marine life for the shoot. March and April and the best months for spinner dolphins off Osa. Go down the page and every page on Costa Cetacea to see loads more photos, videos, stories and information. Click on the dolphin in the sunset to find out how you can come see the Costa Rican spinning stars of Oceans The Movie in real life.
Check out some dolphin behaviors seen nowhere else in the world but Costa Rica. Below take a tour around Manzanillo and see the interspecies interactions and interspecies communications of the Guayana and Bottlenose dolphins of the Gandoca Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, Talamanca, Limon, Costa Rica. These two dolphin species have a common language but humans can't understand. Guyana Dolphins were recently known as Tucuxi Dolphins until DNA testing. Most people in Talamanca still call them Tucuxi dolphins or Small Ones, as they are known in Manzanillo Patois, The Broken Language.
Spotted Eagle Ray cruises the reefs of Talamanca, South Caribbean, Costa Rica
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 tropical 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
One of the best times to see superpods of 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 these massive groups of these marine mammals. Click to learn more about Costa Rica´s amazing spinner dolphin superpod.
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.
Shawn Larkin on Pacific waves. Take a drop with Costa Cetacea. Kayak surf, Drake Bay, Osa. Photo by Vanessa Larkin.
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
A spinner dolphin in the clouds of Osa blue water pelagic off Drake Bay. 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 Disneynature and Galatee Films movie Oceans 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. There are not many great hammerhead sharks left but July and August are months when they might show up offshore Osa. Blue water Pelagic.
Humpback whale mother and calf underwater off the Osa, note the bite marks on the tail of the baby. The little whale was probably attacked by Pseudorca Giant Dolphins. Being a whale is not all fun and games. These humpback whales are an endangered species and do not really have much protection in Costa Rica. There critical breeding waters are often full of nets and lines. Costa Rica need to make bigger marine parks to protect them.
Costa Rica´s first cultures were those of the whales and dolphins- the Cetaceans. Dive into their big blue world. Come with us and look upon, kayak, surf, swim, sail, scuba, freedive and snorkel the waters they depend on. Learn how connected we all are. We try to be the voice of the dolphins, the whales and the waters. We can teach you some dolphin language, how to surf a wave or how to wave to a turtle. Let our words, photos, and videos guide you. Then come see the real thing. New stuff with the change of every moon. All images from on location on our tours. With Costa Cetacea the least you could get is the best of One Ocean, two coasts, and all the sweet waters in between-One Love. Dive deep on every page for mucho info.
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 creatures, among the most fearless and interactive animals on the planet. These giant dolphins are mysterious and unpredictable. Osa Costa RIca is one of the best places in the world to see them.
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.
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, inn, tent camp or cabinas, including pick up and drop off.
YOU CAN NO LONGER BOOK TRIPS WITH SHAWN LARKIN THROUGH AGUILA DE OSA INN OR COSTA RICA ADVENTURE DIVERS, HOTEL JINETES DE OSA. WE CAN PICK YOU AT WHEN YOU STAY AT THESE HOTEL, IF YOU MUST, BUT YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR SPACE HERE, as Jinetes de Osa Costa Rica Adventure Divers nor Aguila de Osa Inn meets our Part of the Solution Eco Standards. Please ask if your hotel has proper wastewater treatment and assure they are not destroying waterways and dumping toxins very close to the beach and river. We must conserve the waters to save the rainforest, the coral reefs, the dolphins, the whales and ourselves. Be part of the solution and check out where you stay. It's easy! Yes we can.
Rough toothed Dolphins AKA Steno dolphins. They like to dance around swimmers in a mysterious underwater ballet. They live offshore Osa year round and sometimes gather in superpods of thousands.
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 one of the birds flying around the tuna 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 Disneynature and Galatee Films movie Oceans released on Earth Day 2010. Click the sun or the dolphin to find out more about Oceans-The Movie.
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all shots from Osa´s blue water pelagic and Talamanca, Limon´s Manzanillo by shawn larkin Copyright 1994-2011 All rights reserved.
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