Our scuba instructor used El Mar Diving Center to take us to Zorro Point, Shangri La cove, and…read more"Seal" Island also known as San Pedro Nolasco to get a variety of dive spots. Of course, being over an hour boat's ride away, San Pedro Nolasco had the greatest visibility, and although San Pedro is nicknamed Seal Island, there are no seals there, just a bunch of fun loving sea lions. Fun fact: Sea lions have ears that can be seen slightly sticking out and their flippers can rotate more compared to seals by seals have ears that are more internally set and cannot rotate their flippers as well since they don't spend as much time on land as sea lions do. The crew from El Mar Dive Center took extremely great care of us! We even had a boat mishap on or Sunday trip and they were able to resolve it and get us to and from Seal Island safely and still gave us many opportunities to explore. They were very helpful switching out tanks for us between dives (of course you still need to double check ;) ), and they cut up fresh watermelon for us to snack on between dives. We would definitely use them again when we return!

Best dive center in San Carlos! I have been on several dives with El Mar and it never disappoints…read more Tonia is an amazing dive master and everyone else that is on staff from the other instructors to the captain of the boat were all friendly and helpful. This trip my 13 year old son got certified. We will be back again and again!!