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Virtual Reality: A New Way to Explore the Underwater World of Cocos Island

By Tristan Paylado
· Updated · 2 min read

In planning your trip to Cocos island, as well as other destination that you wish to visit, you usually want to find any information about the place where you will be spending your vacation. These information could include what to see, places to visit, accommodation, food or perhaps about the budget. You can do this by asking your friends, watching videos or reading travel reviews and articles like the ones you will find in our site. But what if the deciding factor before you go to Cocos island is to experience it first on virtual reality. Before you decide and pack your things, allows us to lay down all the information on how this latest virtual reality experience has made it to the market and fast becoming a best-seller.

Cocos: Shark Island

Photo courtesy from PlayStation
Photo courtesy from PlayStation

Developed by Alchemy VR and Atlantic Productions, Cocos: Shark Island is a 10-minute immersive virtual reality experience for Playstation VR. Users of this amazing gadget will be taken in to the shark infested areas of Cocos island, Costa Rica without even getting wet.

Launched last April 2017, Cocos: Shark Island Virtual Reality Experience has been made possible using cutting edge technology. Employing high definition underwater cameras, deep-sea submersible and other latest gadget on the filming industry, your virtual experience to Cocos island is as close as possible to the real world down there.

Of course, your virtual screen will be filled with several species of sharks dominated by the hammerhead sharks. Other marine wildlife are also featured in this virtual experience like the great school of bigeye trevally, marble rays coupled with an amazing underwater topography which makes Cocos island one of the world’s best scuba diving destination. To give you a glimpse of what’s the feeling of your virtual journey down under Cocos Island, focus your sight on the video below or click on the fullscreen icon.

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Video Courtesy from PlayStation EU

Other Underwater Virtual Reality Experience

There are other virtual reality experience that you can find out in the market. Although these virtual experience are not documented in or doesn’t talk about Cocos island, it can be a good tool to enhance your knowledge before you go diving in the real underwater world of Cocos island.

First Life VR

This 15-minute stereoscopic video, as inspired and narrated by Sir David Attenborough, brings you back 540 millions years ago. You will travel back to the Cambrian Era and dive with extraordinary sea creatures where only pre-historic man have witnessed them as they are now extinct.

Atomic Ghost Fleet

This is one of the safest tour that you can make in your life where you will go to a radioactive saturated area as a result of a nuclear fall-out. We are talking about the atomic bombing of Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands that was detonated 70 years ago. In effect, several shipwrecks now lie on the seafloor where this 18-minute video will safety tour you to the exterior as well as the interior of this graveyard of sunken warships without getting wet or contaminated with radioactive material.

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Reference

Virtual Reality Times: Alchemy VR Launches 3 Experiences for the PSVR

Flickering Myth: www.flickeringmyth.com

IGN: www.ign.com

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Getting to Cocos

The only way to the island is a liveaboard trip from Puntarenas, with about 36 hours of open ocean each way. These are the four boats.

Sea Hunter

Undersea Hunter Group

Sea Hunter

The Cocos pioneer's workhorse: a long-range expedition boat that has been crossing to the island since the 1990s.

11 and 14 day expeditions

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Argo

Undersea Hunter Group

Argo

A 130-foot expedition cruiser and the home of the DeepSee submersible, built for filmmakers and serious photographers.

11 and 14 day expeditions

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Okeanos Aggressor II

Aggressor Adventures

Okeanos Aggressor II

Aggressor's Cocos yacht: all dives from two tenders, with up to 27 dives on the longest charter.

8, 10 and 12 night charters

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Cocos Island Aggressor

Aggressor Adventures

Cocos Island Aggressor

The newer of Aggressor's two Cocos boats, sailing the same 36-hour crossing from Puntarenas.

8, 10 and 12 night charters

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