Cancun Underwater Museum Snorkeling Tour

Besides admiring the beautiful Cancun Underwater Museum in Punta Sam, swim with turtles, enjoy a reef snorkeling, get surprised with MUSA statues and underwader cenotes, explore a shipwreck covered by coral. Everything during the same tour!

Cancun Underwater Museum facts

The Cancun Underwater Museum known as MUSA is a non-profit organization focused to the art of conservation.

The Underwater Museum Cancun was created with the goal of saving the nearby coral reefs (damaged by tourists, anchors, and divers) by providing an alternative destination.

The museum has a total of 500 sculptures, most by the British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, plus 5 Mexican sculptors. It was officially opened in November 2010.

The Cancun Underwater Museum is one of the largest and most ambitious underwater artificial art attractions in the world, visited by more than 100,000 visitors yearly on an average.

The Underwater statues used a new technique and material for coral to grow on (made with pH-neutral cement, coral, seaweed, and algae are able to grow). The statues also have holes in them, which allow marine wildlife to colonize and feed off the coral.

The layout is divided into 3 stages called Salon Manchones, Salon Nizuc and Salon Punta Sam, where our tour is enjoyed.

The best way to enjoy Cancun Underwater Museum in Punta Sam is snorkeling, since the statues are landed only 9 ft. deep. In warm and calm water, just as the rest of our tour (5 different snorkeling spots.)

Enjoy a 5-in-1 guided MUSA snorkeling tour (including Cancun Underwater Museum): swim with turtles, discover underwater statues, snorkel on a full-of-sea-life reef and a shipwreck!

Have you ever wanted to visit MUSA, but would like something else besides underwater statues? We've heard you, enjoy 5 completely different habitats in the same tour!

1st area: reef snorkeling on a perfectly well-conserved coral reef, full of sea life. Snorkel with thousands of colorful fish!

2nd area: 2 art galleries of Cancun underwater museum (MUSA). Discover astonishing underwater statues.

3rd area: let’s swim with sea turtles on their natural habitat. 98% of the times we manage to find from 1-5 turtles!

4th area: explore a shipwreck covered by coral surrounded by white sand, you'll feel on a natural pool! Fish, lobsters, crabs and turtles love this place too.

5th area: discover fantastic cenotes that lay on the ocean surface! You can dive in them to admire the amount of fish that live there.

More details

• Our Cancun Underwater Museum snorkeling tour has a duration of 2.5 hours approximately. Consider 1 additional hour for transportation.
• Our Cancun MUSA snorkeling tour is friendly for people who do not know how to swim or have little or no experience! You can enjoy the tour as we offer life jackets, our trained guides will give you personalized attention and help in every moment. The guides will have a lifeguard where you can support yourself. Finally, we have masks that cover the face completely, so you will not have to breathe through the tube.
• If you do not want to do the activity and just want to go as a companion on the boat you just need to make a prior reservation and pay the cost for it. The companion can be in the boat at all times with the other Total Snorkel crew, the crystal clear water will allow to observe everything that happens during the tour.
• Total Snorkel Cancun have no restrictions on cameras or any device for capturing photos or video, however we can not be held responsible if they are damaged or lost at sea. If you want to have the best memories of your Snorkel tour in Cancun, we recommend you to get our package of photos and video. You will be able to see the incredible images we have taken for you before you decide to buy it.
• Total Snorkel Cancun provides lockers with key so you can save your belongings safely, so the only thing you will have to worry about is to enjoy the tour.
• In Total Snorkel Cancun service and safety are our top priorities. Groups will be kept small (max.10 people) in order to offer you the best service. If you’re a larger group we can handle it under special request (at least 3 days in advance).