Blue Water Hunting
Dive into massive schools of yellow fin tuna and pick which one you will bring home for dinner.
Who should come on a Blue Water Spearfishing Charter?
We require that every diver has previous experience in spearfishing before coming on your blue water hunting charter. This is to ensure everyones safety and of course your best chance at landing fishing.
Spearos who are looking to land a big pelagic fish like mahi, yellow fin tuna, wahoo, cubera snapper, or almaco jacks.
We have 2 options for our blue water spearfishing charters. There is a deep offshore pinnacle with the bottom at 35m (110ft) or take the day and search for tuna schools.
What You Receive When You Charter With Rica Freedivers?
In depth safety briefing about local environment & spearfishing
Revise your diving technique to ensure a higher chance of landing fish.
Local target species briefing and best hunting technique to land each target species
You keep all the fish your land for lunch or dinner
Blue Water Hunting Charters
Full Day Private Charters (7am – 4pm) – $1,250
Shared Charters – $450/person
El 26 (Deep Pinnacle) – Our most famous spearfishing spot in Costa Rica. Home to world record Cubera snappers hiding in the reef below (33m). It’s also an abundant ecosystem with Almaco jacks, wahoo, Mahi, and more.
Yellowfin Tuna – National Geographic-direction. Finding pods of hundreds of spinner dolphins, tuna, and birds in a feeding frenzy.
Must have freediving experience and/or spearfishing experience. If you are new to both please check our Freediver Course and Spearfishing Course
Costa Rican Spearfishing License, you can purchase it online here for $56.50
Testimonials
“Beyond grateful for my time spent with Rica Freedivers crew. The experience and knowledge gained over the past few months is priceless. Looking forward to what the future holds!”
Josh Griskie
Deep Republic
“AMAZING PLACE!!
I spent 2 full months at Rica Freedivers working on improving my freediving, and I couldn’t recommend this place more! I initially booked it after reading all of the amazing reviews, and it did not disappoint.”
Vanora Guerard
“STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!
I have been training with Brad at Rica Freedivers for a month now and I couldn’t be happier!!
I started with wave 1 then feeling really comfortable training with Brad I signed up for wave 2 and 3.”
Sylvain Lambrechts
Freediving Uvita
Frequently Asked Questions
We do require taking a freediving course before Blue Water Hunting. We can add the level 1 course to your training package for an additional cost.
You can either use your own gear or use our equipment. Price for using our equipment is included in the price, nothing extra.
Mahi, yellow fin tuna, wahoo, cubera snapper, almaco jacks, mullet snapper, blue travelle, rainbow runner, and more
For the Blue Water Hunting Charters we typically do not run shared charters but sometimes it has worked out to split a charter with someone.
Of course! Any fish you catch will be yours. You can take it and have it cooked in the marina restaurants or at home.
While on the bait balls tuna come come up to the surface. However typically a diver should be comfortable diving 10m (33ft) to 18m (60ft) for the best experience.
There is something for everyone there. Wahoo, mahi, and rainbow runners are at the surface to 8m (25ft). If you want a cubera snapper or almaco jack you will need to dive a bit deeper from 16m (55ft) – 25m(80ft).
