Any reference to Santa Lucia has to allude to the sea and Cubanacan allows to know it through its many activities.

Any reference to this large beach located on the North of the largest province of Cuba, has necessarily to allude to this sea. In Santa Lucía, Cubanacán, the largest tourism group of the country, operates several companies among which Cubanacán Náutica has a justified preeminence. All the members of Cubanacán Náutica in this tourism destination, enjoy the privilege of counting on a valuable work team, committed with the conservation of a fabulous natural and cultural heritage. His slogan at work is: In Defense of the Sea. They are nice people who invites visitors from all over the world to get to know and care for sea life, swim in crystal-clear waters, submerge among lively corals, discover ancient sunken schooners that still exhibit their cannons, to land in cays only populated by iguanas, pink flamingos, to navigate by sail boats, as in old times, to catch large fish by fishing rods or have a good time with beach pastimes or equipments in the specialized club available in each hotel of the area. The divers of Shark Friends International Center invit to get deeper in the underwater charms of Santa Lucía. Everything is well arranged, once that the reservation is made, they pass by the hotel at the time scheduled, they are picked up by a bus, under the divers’ service, then they are taken to the Diving Center, where their certification is requested and the routine procedures are carried out while, at the same time, they arrange the tanks, weighs, and other items of which they are well-stocked. There in the same place, each instructor explains to his group, the immersion characteristics and then tourists get aboard the lighters that will take them to the chosen spot. There is an assorted choice: coral walls, tunnels and natural bridges, gorgonia or sponge gardens, pecios. Other options are also available as diving in the current, where the Bay channel is well used or the spectacular Shark Show which gives name to the center. Upon completing every diving activity, guests are taken back to the hotel lobby. Sharks´Friends’ instructors teach courses on Resort, Open Water and Advanced, designed with the experience of ACUC International School provide in the case of the two latter courses, certifications with which diving can be practiced in other places of the world. Fishing is another modality of sea leisure. Tourists are taken to the reserved areas by skippers and sailors where by depending on the season, the best pieces are caught: Atlantic bonitos, dorados, barracudas and Atlantic blue marlins. The fourth groups of water optionals is that designed for all ages, whole families, couples or lonely confirmed adventurers who aboard powerful catamarans, motor sail boats and motor yacht indulge in the blue large waters of this site, searching for special spots and inhabited cays, where nature is intact, unspoiled. Drives near the coral reef start in the morning and in the afternoon, while seafaris comprising a whole day promises the best time for vacations in Cuba with visits to the beach Playa Bonita on Cayo Sabinal or Nuevitas Bay where the largest population of pink flamingos of the Antilles can be seen for several months.