Palancar Gardens is a boat-access Cozumel reef dive on the island's southwest side, with a shallow coral garden that rolls into a steep wall cut by spires, ledges, and swim-throughs. It is usually a mild-current dive with clear Caribbean water, dense coral growth, and frequent encounters with turtles, eagle rays, stingrays, nurse sharks, moray eels, reef fish, and Cozumel's endemic Splendid toadfish.