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Diving in Isla Mujeres, especially near the south point where you can find the beautiful Mancohes Reef, it will be definitely an amazing and unforgettable experience. Isla Mujeres diving is one of the main attractions in this wondeful island in part because of the site of the Cruz de la Bahia, a large cross submerged to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the foundation of Isla Mujeres town, and home to large fish schools.
Further on the other side, the continental plateau lies deeper and we find many interesting shipwrecks where one can explore and meet its new and exotic crew. The Ultrafreeze and the Navy Boat are specially attractive and recommended for advanced divers.
Towards the north of the island is the Sleeping Sharks Cave, a unique site in the world. Sharks don't sleep because they don't have swim bladder, a gas filled organ that allows fish to stay still when they stop swimming. If sharks stopped traveling they would go to the bottom and would simply drown, therefore they are condemned to perpetual motion. But in this place the stream is intense and it is melted with fresh water filtrations among the canyon shaped reef. In these conditions the high metabolic oceanic sharks can stop moving trusting the oxygen supply to the sea stream, while the low salinity and other animals clean him from parasites. They fall into a kind of lethargy that allows divers to approach without danger.
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