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You may know this already, but if the port gets closed to diving, it's generally closed to all watersports, which includes shore diving. Usually the closings are due to Nortes and it could be different with other types of big weather. Others here will know more than I do.

ScubaJaun is on row 40 of that spreadsheet. You have to scroll down. Maybe you could fill in some of the blanks by replying here once you've seen it? JonHall is good about updating the sheet when he gets updated info about a shop.

That's what I'm talking about. One could even take the opportunity to explain to people in the beginning of the pinned post that it will be much easier for people to make good suggestions if they know where you're staying, and that if you don't know where you are staying or what the options...

I agree. It makes me wonder if it would work the same way as posting a link to the spreadsheet in a pinned message would work. Couldn't the post in a pinned thread have a link to this thread too, just like a link to the spreadsheet? There wouldn't be a need to update the single post in the...

Based on what I read in Post 121, I wonder if a pinned message that was simply a short description of the sheet and a link to that sheet on google docs, or wherever. At least I thought the sheet was on the web somewhere. It could be a one message thread and would update when the sheet is updated.

I've done some diving with Allen when he was with a shop. He is very good and a really nice guy.

I got my nitrox card in 2006ish. A book, 3 tables, 2 dives, I think, and a written test. It was PADI and my memory was that it was about $175 and included everything. Because I was curious, I checked the website of the dive shop I use. They specifically set out nitrox cert and the other...

Wow. Let me guess, they're playing loud classic rock now too. Too bad. Had many really good and fun suppers there.

It's been a long time and things may have changed, but Tikila and Ernesto's weren't playing 'murican music the last times I was there. Been to Tikila many times with friends during sunset, Ernesto's too for that matter. The only problem with both of those places is that they have a "south"...

Imo and fwiw, if BA is leaving at 9am, that's a selling point to me. Where I stay I watch many rushed, tensed up divers coming to breakfast on a mission to eat and get on the pier for their 8am departures. I'm up very early, and have pah-lenty of time to drink some coffee, eat some breakfast...

Would Blue Angel dive shop work for you? That would be very convenient. Did you mean Pedro Pablo works at Deeper Blue, or Deep Blue? My understanding is that Deep Blue will pick up at Blue Angel. Many shops will take care of your equipment if you ask. I've never done it, but if I wanted my...

I didn't see this mentioned but I may have missed it. Another advantage to El Presidente is that you can choose any dive op and they'll pick you up from your pier. If you're diving with the house op at El Presidente or the Coz Palace, of course you'll board at the hotel pier, but El Presidente...

It would be a boat trip, but if you're going to El Cielo, you should go to Colombia Shallows. 28 feet deep. LOTS of structure, etc. If I was ever on a trip with snorkelers, I'd insist on Colombia Shallows.

I haven't priced the Park Royal and it isn't really my cup of tea, but it sounds like a pretty good choice. If not there, it sounds like a resort somewhere further south would work too, if you're thinking AI is the way to go. Further south will have better, less congested swimming, not...

You could stay at Villa Aldora, north of the square, you could stay downtown and walk to the pier they leave from downtown, or you could stay just about anywhere south of town and they can probably pick you up from the hotel's dock. Some hotels will charge your for using their dock to get on a...

That's a pretty quick time frame. I'd agree with others about doing what you can from home. If you can get some of it done at home, it might make for a better experience when you're there. Though you are remote, if you have internet access you can do the "classroom" work from home with PADI...

The Cozumel Museum?

Ditto on going to Cozumel immediately. It sounds like you want to do some diving. MUSA was kinda "meh" in the opinion of a friend who is a bronze artist. The cenotes (which we did prior to the museum on the same day) were the bomb in his opinion. Maybe combine cenotes and the museum later in...

Crazy. Coz. Adv. was definitely on your original post in this thread. I went straight to the Best Op. thread, looked at the sheet, and it was on there too. I didn't come back to post on this thread for awhile and only did because I figured someone would have already pointed out that they were on...

Did you edit this post? When I first saw this post, it appeared as though part of the spreadsheet was on your post. It's not there now. In any event, on your original post on this thread, Cozumel Adventures was on the sheet, or partial sheet. When I look at the actual spreadsheet on the Best...