Dive Boat Sank???

[CheddarChick]

Yikes.....Thanks for the report...Something to be said for diving with a regular dive op.....

 

[MaxBottomtime]

There is already another thread about this.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/cozumel/476341-dive-boat-sank.html

 

[Ron Lee]

Look at the Reef Cat dive boat picture when it scrolls around here:

Cozumel Scuba Diving at Scuba Club Cozumel Dive Resort and Scuba Cozumel Dive Shop

 

[Pedro Burrito]

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

I merged two threads, this one and "Near tragedy at Punta Sur, Cozumel " from Near Misses

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[Darol]

Call me a Woose, but my GF is a newly certified diver and I called it yesterday, and told her wait till tomorrow, glad I did. It was beautiful today. saw a three meter Hammerhead Shark at Palancar Caves this morning, along with the usual characters, turtles, baracuda ect... ect... ect...

 

[Dave Dillehay]

Several lessons here. One, don't get on a boat with no working bilge pump (street talk) and stay away from operators that use rental boats on a regular basis. That's all I will say.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

 

[cicopo]

OK Dave. I'm a long time auto mechanic & know a good bit about pumps so just how would I know that the boat I'm about to board has a pump in good working order? I'll admit to having seen water being pumped out of one boat on my recent trip (at the Caletta) but don't remember the boat's name, but they shouldn't run & pump constantly unless their is a serious problem.

 

[MMM]

So it took me a little while to figure this out and I may still may have it wrong but I thought it was worth putting out there to clarify. There is a dive OP here called Tres Hermanos. This thread has NO bearing on it, yes? This is about a boat named Tres Hermanos (operated by some OP of a totally different name) that sank. I want to clear this up because of the confusion about the boat that sank a couple of years ago named Living Underwater (with no connections to the dive OP of the same name) but operated by scuba Mau. I wouldn't want an unconnected OP with the same name get mis connected to this,

 

[Dirty-Dog]

It sank on the 13th, not on Valentines Day.
The boat that sank is the Tres Hermanos, rented by the op Pro Dive.
Locals that we've talked to have confirmed what we heard yesterday about a tendency for Pro Dive to load these rental boats pretty heavily.


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[lthomas132]

Several lessons here. One, don't get on a boat with no working bilge pump (street talk) and stay away from operators that use rental boats on a regular basis. That's all I will say.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

From my crew days on offshore racing sailboats, my bro always said "the best bilge pump is a scared man with a 5 gal. bucket"