The Different Path

Rene and crew managed to make it out to the Condofish site last week for a picture update of the project.  The storms in October and unprecedented undersea currents managed to disorganize some of the condo fish structures below.  The most important news is thatmarine life is still in the reef project living in perfect [...]

Divers Don Don and Thad took a dive down to the Playa Hermosa Artificial Reef Project in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.  The fish and marine life are abounding. Also, The new steel reinforced condo design seems to be the ideal choice for underwater building. Our old structures are much more susceptible to being knocked over by fisherman’s [...]

May 18th Marks the 1 year anniversary of the Playa Hermosa Artificial Reef Project website!   Thanks for all the support.  We are now constructing new and improved designs using re-bar reinforced frames and concrete blocks.  The team dropped the first prototype in the water using our custom air powered lifting and lowering submarine device.    [...]

Boomers Offshore created an outstanding video documenting the progress of the Playa Hermosa Artifical Reef Project over the last year.  In addition, the video emphasizes the need for project such as this and talks about the future of the project. Be Sure and check out the Boomers Offshore for more info about life and adventure [...]

This March has been absolutely amazing.  The structures and surrounding seafloor have been amassing biological value by the month.  Sightings of Lobsters, crabs, octopus, conch shells, southern sting rays, and more and more varieties fish have become commonplace.  We hope that local dive shops will begin viewing Condofish as more than a project, but as [...]

After putting up 4 buoys marking off the project in a square above the water and building a border around the entire project underwater, fishermen still continue to do damage to our project.   We have no issue with the casual sport fisherman or the motivated spear-fisher, but when fishermen drop their nets and drag them [...]

With the addition of the chunk of the Pekin Star shipwreck and over 9 months of growth on the calcium rich concrete blocks, the Playa Hermosa Artificial Reef Project is teeming with life.  We’ve been spotting numerous rays, eels, crabs, conch, oysters, and multitude of different varieties of tropical fish all around and in the [...]

With a crane from the municipality and a large community effort, the Shipwreck on Playa Hermosa was finally removed.  It was a messy but successful operation. A large section of the wreck still lives on as a new life promoting structure in the Playa…

Here we’d like to acknowledge our first European sponsor!  La Faitafondue Comme le dit si bien l′illustrissime amuseur public FRANK MARICHAL, les belges ont une brique dans le ventre. Ceci dit, FRANK MARICHAL et son fameux restaurant LAFAITAFONDUE, deviennent les premiers SPONSORS européens du projet CONDOFISH – www.condofish.com initie par son copain et compatriote Christian LeMouche au Costa [...]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how the Condofish blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2010. That’s about 20 full 747s. [...]