SACHA PFEIFFER, BYLINE: It is so arduous to get to Guantanamo. DETROW: Sacha Pfeiffer from NPR's investigations team has covered the U.S. naval base and military prison at Guantanamo for years.

They're spearfishing and scuba diving and sailing ... down there often interdicts migrants at sea - people from Haiti, Cuba, sometimes the Dominican Republic who flee their countries on boats ...

Cuba has more than 2,000 miles of picture-perfect ... Lucía is the vast Atlantic and on the other is Nuevitas Bay, a scuba diving destination with bull sharks and colorful coral fish galore.

I recently returned from Cuba. With all the news of countrywide black outs and hurricane damage, I wasn’t sure we should go.

Here, watersports abound from surfing to scuba diving. You can also hire a car and ... The Caribbean island of Cuba is well-known for its major city, Havana, and a love of classic cars.