Cozumel Travel Guide: Hotels, all inclusive, Scuba Diving

whether beginner or advanced, you should always consult a divemaster about the present environment before any dive. El explorador no admite los marcos flotantes o no está configurado actualmente para mostrarlos.

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The magic World of Cozumel’s waters

It’s your first dive. You are excited, even a little scared. What is waiting for you down there, underwater? Everybody going down for the first time, is asking these same questions. The answers depend, however, on how well I the dive instructor, do my job.

To ensure that my students will come to love the adventure of Scuba diving as much as I do, I have to follow certain guidelines. And to insure from your side, that you are going to be safe and enjoy your dive to the maximum you too, should follow those guidelines. These include the following things: Find a truly quality dive center.

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Cheap prices do not guarantee quality. Let the dive center check your certification; check theirs and the divemasters and instructors. (Most in this area are affiliated with PADI, NAUI, and SSI). Check rental equipment for proper function, even if it is new. Follow the instructions of your divemaster who should determine site, depth, time and other specifics before the dive and lay out the diveplan for you clearly.

Should you be low on air (1000 PSI or 70 bar) notify your divemaster immediately. Of course you still have to respect your divetables or dive computer and safety stops are always a good idea. As always avoid decompression diving and do not fly or ascend to high altitudes until after 24 hours after your dive. Do not touch anything or collect corals, stay alert.

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Drink lots of water not Tequila, and should you have questions related to health and/or diving call the hyperbaric chamber sub aquatic safety services (in Cozumel (987)21430 or in Playa (987)31365). And of course after enjoying your dive, remember those that helped carrying and cleaning your equipment before and after the dive. Remember, whether beginner or advanced, you should always consult a divemaster about the present environment before any dive.

Eventually it is worth to follow the guidelines. I did, and was rewarded with some of the most pleasant dives in the world. I will never forget those first moments underwater in Cozumel at the Palancar Caves looking up from 80 feet and seeing the captain leaning over the boat to check on our bubbles.

Then my eyes locked on the caves, the tall pinnacles, 200 feet of visibility, large grouper, barracuda’s and a rainbow of those colors typical for Cozumel. Cozumel indeed does offer a multitude of diving sites for every taste.

Be it the Columbia Deep with huge coral formations and dramatic vertical drop offsor a training dive or shore dive in front of your hotel or some beach entry, or Palancar divided into four locations: Palancar caves and Palancar horseshoe (both 80-90 feet); Palancar Gardens and Francesa reef offering winding passages and coral caves created by overgrowth of beautiful reef tops at 60 to 70 feet are a treat for the photographer.

Diving El Paso del Cedral, I was reminded never again to hesitate to save some frames as my film was empty shooting morays lured by the divemaster with bits of fish fillets before I even got to the breathtaking Cedral tunnel about 60 feet in length and featuring several openings and protected caves where you discover teardrop shaped glassy sweepers, and incredible sites.

And at the 80 feet depth of the Santa Rosa Wall you will discover sponges, seafans, corals and large caves adorning this vertical environment. And finally the 40-60 feet deep Tormentos reef funds us photographers with endless angles on morays, angle fish, barracudas, etc.. Publishing their images, I try to replicate this richness in colors and form.

An endless palette of colors and forms, Cozumel has become the world’s most marketed diving site beating the Great Barrier Reef in number of visitors easily. maybe its because of the versatility of the reefs or of new rages such as newly introduced Nitrox diving allowing for safer, longer, and more enjoyable dives when used correctly.

In any case, I as a divemaster and underwater photographer, surely will never get tired of Cozumel’s jewels.

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