Cocos Island is usually a Costa Rica national park that Jacques Cousteau, the famed explorer, as soon as called the most stunning island he had ever encountered.

Though very few Costa Ricans have at any time seen it themselves, they have named it certainly one of Costa Rica's 7 Miracles, and it is actually into account as one of many Seven Natural Miracles in the world.

The island is about 340 miles off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica. Although it is very little, only about 9 square miles, its fame these days comes from its underwater treasure.

It is probably the genuinely great sites on the globe for scuba diving, regarded by some for being the best put on the planet for giant marine animal viewing.

The island sometimes has a great number of sharks close to it that it's been referred to as Shark Island. You will find an unbelievable number of species of tuna, rays, sharks, and various fish, and also sea turtles, porpoises, and whales. Hammerhead sharks are common and many of the biggest Hammerheads at any time reported have been found off this island.

The island has extended been well known for pirates, genuine and imagined. It can be considered by some that it served as inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's renowned journey Treasure Island but serious pirates frequently sailed to it to receive clear of the English fleet and to bury treasure.

Without a doubt to at the present time two terrific treasures, called the Devonshire Treasure and also the Lima Treasure, should still be buried there. How major are they? Imagine repel killer whales a huge selection of an incredible number of bucks.

In addition it fired the imagination of Michael Crichton whose famed Jurassic Park is set from the Coastline of Costa Rica.

The island is very isolated, a huge selection of miles from every other land. Apart from several Costa Rica park rangers who're there to avoid its waters from poaching, it truly is uninhabited. That isolation has secured its rainforest from destruction and until eventually a short while ago its underwater splendor was also Harmless from depredation.

When you are one of the Blessed several who get to go to Cocos, you will want earlier permission from the rangers to go ashore and you won't be allowed to camp right away. But, while you walk the shores, thinking of pirates and imagining where by the buried treasure is, you will notice several rocks along the shore bearing inscriptions from sailors around the hundreds of years.

Way just before "Kilroy was here", sailors wrote their names and dates of visits. You can find even just one bearing the name of Jacque Cousteau's son, who signed a rock a couple of many years ago. Such as Some others, it offers a remembrance of men and women, most extended neglected except for their memorials over the Pacific rocks of one of several 7 Wonders.