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Funny reading this thread. As someone who has been visiting CZM for decades I DO know Michaela, proprietress of Vela Divers and some coffee shop, and yes, I agree with LCTX - she IS a snake. She's been in and out of jail regularly and if she lived in the US, she'd be in jail for her several...

If you're looking for steel 120's, only 3 ops on CZM offer them regularly - Aldora, Liquid Blue & Living Underwater. On the other hand, ANYONE can rent a second boat if needed. If it's familiarity with a crew that you'll be diving w/ for a week and diving w/ the heavier tanks, I'd stick w/ one...

Steve & Kami - Welcome to the wonderful yet wacky world that is Cozumel. THRILLED that you are taking Liquid Blue over. Always good to have another steel tank operator option available. Best of luck to you!

PLEASE don't ever dive with Aldora. I would cringe if I had to be stuck on a boat with you, your 5,000 dives and some Mexicans making money.

I'm with a couple of the other folks here: get your own boat. Like it or not, it's drift diving and you're going to have to at least attempt to stay with a group for better or for worse. Seriously? Excess back gas? Not limited in your selection of dive sites? You want to do chest-thumping...

Done hundreds of dives in CZM and hundreds more around the world. Been w/ 5 dive ops in CZM. "Protocol" is contingent upon the op and if there are regulars on the boat. If there are 8 people on a boat and 2 are new, the DM may have a tendency to be lax on the run down and that is a recipe for...

Done hundreds of dives in and around CZM as well as hundreds more around the world. In CZM, I've been w/ 5 dive ops. "Protocol" is contingent upon the OP and is often lax if regulars are involved. THAT'S part of the problem. If there are 8 people on a boat and 2 are newbies and they don't get...

Five deaths in two months SHOULD be an incentive to see what happened and look at the big picture IF there is one. There is no indication that all were amateur/low skill. Quite the contrary - one was a dive operator - but the facts on that case are known by most here in CZM. Not looking to...

There still seems to be a lot of misinformation floating around. One divemaster said today that Suzanne was 69. She wasn't. Another said she was swimming around the wreck - not inside - and then went to the surface. Who knows? As someone who dives here often, I TOO would like some definitive...

My heart goes out to the family. The dive community down here truly mourns with them.

Just a sad story.

Nope. Just sat next to them.

Never said I met the diver. You did. They were sitting at a table next to us. And IF anything happened to me on a dive, I'd want my friends/family to KNOW what happened and hold the sugar-coating. Authorities here aren't particularly forthcoming for any number of reasons. I have asked about a...

I guess I'm just wondering if there's a board of some sort that reviews these incident clusters - like morbidity/mortality post-ops - to see who was involved, what measures were in place, best-practices, number of dives each fatality had under his/her belt, location, what "might" have prevented...

These may ALL be totally unrelated, unfortunate incidents but does it seem like an unusually high number of fatal accidents for CZM? Doesn't this make 5 deaths in the last 2 months? Argentine diver dies diving in Cozumel [Archive] - ScubaBoard cozumel accident 9/4/11, THE FACTS [Archive] -...

A woman this time. Anyone have details? We're down here and hear rumors flying.

A woman this time. Anyone have details? We're down here and hear rumors flying.