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Wow. I have only done 4 dives a day on liveaboard trips where I can do nothing between dives. I would be asleep for the rest of the trip with so many, let alone the costs involved. Enjoy your dives :)

I am not US based, but I have booked my flight and booked the hotel directly with them this time (not a package). I will be booking my Cenote dives directly with the dive operation, I am planning on 6 days of diving so 12 dives all Cenotes. Wow 45 dives how long is your trip :)

This is an old link, there was a lot of fuss about this late last year, then it all changed and that was prior to my trip at the end of November. I have booked directly with the hotel for September and the most I can pay is US$ is $1500. The ruling doesn't really effect tourists but does...

I checked their website as someone was looking for information on them and were staying at Grand Palladium, I was surprised to read their deep dive was listed as 18m :)

Almost 3000 people a week over the 12 weeks of the season, sounds like too many people to me.

Why on earth would anyone recommend taking your own kit and renting for a dive - talk about false economy - someone will have to explain the logic to me. I take all my own kit, paying for an extra bag is still cheaper than renting.

40,000 not all in Mexico surely.

I am really hoping you are quoting me in error, because ignorant I am not.

Another reason I will never visit the US, I had a double knee replacement 3 years ago and have had lots of metalwork in them since 1995, I have never triggered any airport scanner. The more I hear about travelling into or through the US the more I am determined never to go.

46mtrs - Blimey it must have been light, did they remember the dive :)

Bit confused why the thread title is deep diving, then links to a video of an advanced nitrox course, although I didn't see any students and nitrox isn't a deep diving gas.

Visibility of 500 yards that sounds like a boring cavern to me.

Your comment isn't strictly correct you can exchange US$ but there is a limit of $1500, which for the majority of tourist would be more than enough.

I stayed at the White Sands section in December and there is a scuba operator at the hotel, Scuba Carib but as I had my Cenote diving organised with another dive operator, I don't have any experience of them but did see them leaving from the beach. There is a forum called Palladium Addicts...

If your hotel has a spa, I wouldn't worry too much about your girlfriend ;)

Really ? Fantastic I have been driving for the past 4 hours I must have missed us leaving the EU. :D Yes you are right we are apparently crap tippers and following a trip to the Galapagos in 2007 I won't go on another trip like that again. 16 of us from the UK (part of Europe) were...

I know directing people to other forums isn't the done thing. But take a look at Palladiumaddicts.net there is a forum on there where you can probably get a few opinions on the operator, just had a quick look and the Akumal dive shop gets quite a few mentions. Can't help as I used Zero...

When I had problems a friend of mine just said to practice. I set my kit up in the front room of my house over a weekend, every hour I sat on the floor (set resting vertical against the sofa) and just practiced 10 times on each side. If your friend is struggling even in day clothes, he could...

"bathed in natural sunlight". I have only done a couple but there were parts during the dive which were quite dark, at one point I turned my light off just to see.

Nice video, what was the structure where the sharks were being filmed. Is that a local dive site or one you have to travel to ?