I've been reading that there's no boat night diving in Cozumel. Can anyone shed any light on why? If day boat diving is allowed, why not night boat diving? Is there poaching going on?
Night Diving in Cozumel
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cozcharlie
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I don’t really know where night diving stands now , but when Cozumel re-opened for diving the curfew was ~7pm I believe. It was physically impossible to do a night dive without breaking curfew My guess is that was the logic at the time, but I never heard it phrased that way.
Curfew obviously moved to later time a couple of weeks after re-opening . Why night diving hasn’t opened up (assuming it still hasn’t changed when we went yellow ) is another question. My assumption would be inertia is the reason it never opened up—inertia is always the best guess for why something hasn’t changed in Mexico.
Yes there has been poaching , but it is probably giving them too much credit to assume they are blocking night diving to prevent poaching I think a fair amount of the poaching was from shore anyway , so not like watching boats entering/leaving the marinas at night does anything to prevent that. Poaching not that profitable these days anyway due to lack of local restaurant demand (I think last I heard lobster tails were 8 US dollars a pound after you converted the pesos/kilo price ).
Anyway , those are my guesses/thoughts , but if anyone has heard the reasoning directly from the port captain I will certainly defer to them. I think I have been on one night dive in past 15 years , so not something I have been following closely
Hopefully I have killed enough time where I can go back to sleep now—it’s 3 am and I have been up for a couple of hours
JFS
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Night diving is still currently not allowed in Cozumel as per directive from the Port Captain.
Golpe a la recuperación turística: prohíben tours de buceo nocturno en Cozumel
Golpe a la recuperación turística: prohíben tours de buceo nocturno en Cozumel
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I assume this means no night boat diving. Surely this doesn't apply to shore diving at night... or does it?
JFS
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Christi posted somewhere either here or FB that technically, night diving has always been illegal just it was never enforced.
JFS
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That's true. Cozumel was one of the only areas that it was an exception and they allowed . The new port captain decides what rules are applied. When she is gone, the next port captain may run things different.
As of earlier this month, the palce I stayed was allowing night shore dives. I actually prefer shore to boat for night dives. I don't think most people go to Cozumel for the night diving. There is a segment that enjoys it but I doubt that "no night dives" would kill the dive industry there.
JFS
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The hotel you were at may have allowed it but it is not legal.
File that under "Things I didn't know".
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