Pirate Cove

Set on the waterfront at Bahía Drake on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, Pirate Cove is a PADI Resort dive center where the diving unfolds around the Caño Island Biological Reserve. It's a place built for travellers who want easy access to open-ocean encounters, with two PADI Instructors guiding divers in both English and Spanish.

Diving Caño Island

The reserve mixes pelagic and Pacific reef species, so a single outing might turn up white-tipped reef sharks, turtles, morays, rays and schooling barracudas and tunas. Depending on the season, humpbacks, orcas and pilot whales pass through, alongside Pacific spotted, bottlenose and spinner dolphins — and, if you're lucky, manta rays or a whale shark.

PADI scuba diving and snorkelling round out the offering, and the centre keeps things convenient with an onsite training pool, free Wi-Fi, a dive boat, food and drinks, and parking. It suits divers of all levels drawn to biodiverse Pacific waters.