Cozumel: Atlantis Submarine
The Atlantis Submarine Excursion offers you the opportunity to do something only about 1% of the people in the world have done: ride in an actual submarine. The Carnival excursion costs $99 for adults and $49 for children. The Atlantis Submarine website sometimes offers discounts for booking directly with them. I booked with Carnival since I wanted to use onboard credit for the excursion.
I did a Glass Bottom Boat excursion in Roatan prior to booking this one. I think it was a very good way to get a feel for what it’s like in the submarine without actually submerging 100 feet under water. The ladder and space inside the glass bottom boat was very similar to that of the submarine.
I booked the 11:30 excursion. At 11:05 I headed down. Finding the check in spot next to Three Amigos was easy.
I was the first to check in. They gave me a bracelet and a sticker to wear. I walked around for a few minutes and returned at 11:25.
I freaked everyone out with this one. This clock says 11:25. But whenever you look at it through a camera it’s flashing 5-2-1-1.
Three Canadians, two Texans, and Saint Greg walk into a sub…
We took a short walk over to the boat that would take us to the sub. You can see it isn’t far from the ship.
Here is the ride to the submarine location. We stopped to pick up some Royal Caribbean cruisers on the way. They did a safety briefing in both Spanish and English, then we continued to the sub location.
This is the group before ours resurfacing.
Embarkation was back of boat to front and we filled the sub back to front. I was in the front of the boat so I ended up near the front of the sub. I liked that because we had extra room to spread out since the sub wasn’t totally full. I also had a pretty good view of the pilot and what he was seeing.
This is the platform you board on with the two boats on either side.
This is the ladder you have to make it up/down.
This is the back of the sub.
This is what the seating is like. Since the sub wasn’t totally full we were able to spread out a little.
Each porthole has it’s own air vent.
Here is our first dive and the first few minutes down there.
We reached at maximum depth of 105 feet.
This is the drop off where it goes 2,000 feet straight down. In some areas it’s as deep as 3,000 feet.
This is a ship wreck that has been down there since 2000. It used to be a Mexican Navy gunship.
There are divers down there looking at the ship wreck.
These are some strange looking fish!
Our dive lasted about 45 minutes. Here is the video of us resurfacing.
As we pulled away the next group boarded and was preparing to dive.
On the way back they passed out juice and dive certificates.
I arrived back at the ship at 1:30pm.
My glass bottom boat pictures were better quality than the ones I got through the submarine porthole but I did get to do something not very many people get to. I enjoyed the excursion and I will be keeping an eye out for submarine tours that go deeper than 100 feet on future trips.
