Snorkeling Tours in Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Cenotes & Whale Sharks - Manta Divers

Snorkeling MUSA, the Cancun Underwater Museum (Museo Subacuático de Arte), is the most unique snorkeling tour in Cancun.

From the surface you float in shallow, sunlit water over more than 500 life-size sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor, an underwater art collection that has grown into a living reef covered in coral and circled by tropical fish.

Because MUSA sits only a few meters down in calm, clear water, you see the sculptures clearly with just a mask and snorkel, no diving experience needed.

This afternoon Cancun snorkeling tour heads out by boat to the museum and a nearby reef, with an in-water guide keeping the group together and pointing out the best of it.

It is perfect for all ages from 6 and for families or mixed groups, and it runs on the same boat as our MUSA scuba divers, so everyone can share the day.

Mask, fins, and vest, plus all marine park and dock fees, are included.

The Gold Snorkel is a full-day Cancun snorkeling tour with two completely different kinds of water.

You check in at 8:00 am and drive south to the cenotes, the crystal-clear freshwater caverns of the Yucatán, where you snorkel over ancient rock formations and through beams of light in water so clear it feels like flying.

In the afternoon you return to the coast to snorkel MUSA, the famous Cancun Underwater Museum, floating over its 500-plus sculptures and the reef life that has colonized them.

Cenote snorkeling and museum snorkeling in a single day, with the same guide alongside you throughout, makes this the most variety any snorkeling tour on this coast offers.

No experience is needed and it suits all ages from 6, minimum two people. Mask, fins, and vest, transport, and all park and cenote entry fees are included.

The Silver Snorkel is a relaxed day of reef snorkeling in Puerto Morelos, a quiet fishing village just south of Cancun with one of the healthiest, best-protected stretches of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

Check in at 10:30 am and we drive you down to Don Ernesto's Beach Club, where you snorkel the shallow, protected reef just offshore, a National Marine Park full of coral, tropical fish, turtles, and rays in calm, clear water.

Afterward you sit down to lunch right on the beach.

Because the reef is protected and shallow, this is easy, family-friendly snorkeling in Cancun for all ages from 6, away from the crowds of the Hotel Zone.

Mask, fins, and vest, transport, the beach club, and all marine park fees are included, minimum four people. It is the most laid-back snorkeling tour we run.

The Private Snorkel Boat is a whole-boat MUSA snorkeling charter in Cancun for your group alone, up to ten snorkelers with nobody else aboard and the day run on your schedule.

Choose a morning start at 8:00 am or an afternoon start at 12:30 pm, then head out to snorkel the famous Cancun Underwater Museum, floating over its 500-plus sculptures and the living reef around them, plus a nearby natural reef, all at your own relaxed pace with a private guide.

Because the boat is yours, it is the most flexible and comfortable way for a family or group of friends to snorkel MUSA together, with room for strong and nervous swimmers alike and no strangers on board.

Mask, fins, and vest, a private in-water guide, refreshments, and all marine park and dock fees are included. All ages from 6 are welcome.

Snorkeling with whale sharks in Cancun is a genuine bucket-list adventure, a chance to swim alongside the largest fish in the ocean.

Each summer, from June through August, hundreds of these gentle giants gather in the warm waters off the Yucatán to feed near the surface, and our whale shark tour puts you right there in the water with them.

The day starts with a comfortable pickup and a boat ride out to the feeding zone, where experienced guides give a full safety and conservation briefing before you go in.

Guests enter the water in small pairs with a guide and take turns snorkeling beside the whale sharks, resting on the boat between swims, so everyone gets multiple encounters with these enormous, harmless filter feeders.

Afterward we cruise to the beautiful Isla Contoy for a relaxed ceviche beach lunch on white sand. It is a surface snorkel experience, no diving or experience needed, and all gear, guides, and lunch are included.