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after 38 diving trips to Cozumel and using a dozen or so different dive ops, I would never bother to think of any other op when booking. If, by some chance, neither could take me, then I would likely look to Papa Hogs or Living Underwater (only if Jeremy assured me he had completely taken it...

And I currently dive always with Christi at Blue XT Sea or with Roberto and Jorge at Liquid Blue. They charge a bit more, but the difference in attentive, small-boat customer service is absolutely worth it. If you want to dive with 120 cf tanks, Liquid Blue has them in steel. If not (or...

(then known as Chuck and Chuck's, as opposed to the name it has currently earned, "Chuck and Upchuck's"), really had some excellent food. When I first discovered Cozumel in 1989, the Cozumel C & C's had a menu identical to the original C & C's in Acapulco, where I had become addicted to, among...

Casa Mexicana is a very attractive, spotlessly clean, new and modern hotel with rather striking architecture and includes a really outstanding breakfast buffet with custom-made omelets, eggs as you want them, fresh fruit, cereals, pastries, French toast, bacon, sausage, ham, etc. The rooms are...

Until then, I think everybody was dressed in black for the funeral. <')///><

that everyone who works for them is a saint able to walk (without flotation devices) on the most troubled waters, but, as soon as they leave Aldora, they become "luciferized" demons, agents of the devil, who, from the instant of their departure, have become aggressive wild men who have set out...

smallboat, experienced divers' packages, Dive Paradise sucks. I have dived with them on several occasions when my duty was to put together cheap dive trips for my dive club and once on my own, and you can expect rigid bottom time restrictions, crowded boats, inadequate surface intervals and...

Worst winds we got were 35 mph with higher gusts. So much rain, though, that I expect the sky to mildew! :eyebrow: Boat was fine. Went to fugu's daughter's graduation party (cum laude from UF) last weekend, which was a zillion course Chinese feast with sushi and pickled baby octupus. Then...

for me. Actually, they are going to miss both of us a tad if the current projections hold true, with Bonnie sliding in near Panama City, probably as a low-end Category 1 hurricane, and Charley hitting near Naples/Ft. Myers as a healthy Category 2 'cane. My boat partner and I were sweating...

17/18 Red. Like I said, tehy are on opposite sides of the baggage claim floor and inaccessible from each other except by taking an elevator or escalator up and walking to the other side. There are maps and floor diagrams on the website www.tampaairport.com. <')///><

from each other. Delta is on the "Blue" or south side of the main terminal building on the ground floor and Continental is on the "Red" or north side of the same floor. There is NO direct passage for passengers from one side to the other on that level, so you have to take the elevators or...

Water temps will be 80-81 dF, plus or minus a couple. If you do a lot of diving (3 tanks/day or more for several days), you will lose some core temp by the end of 3-4 days with no thermal protection. Scuba Cozumel only has al80s, so at 2 tanks a day (the typical menu at SC) you won't suffer...

Funjet: www.funjet.com and Adventure Tours: www.atusa.com. Both fly charters out of Dallas/Ft. Worth and package some great air/hotel packages. Be aware that booking hotel north of San Miguel may either require taxiing into town to connect with a dive op or limit your choices of dive ops...

I was exchanging e-mails with friends in Cozumel after Dave's offensive rant and learned that Michaela, who is a very bright and witty person, has been answering the phone at Liquid Blue in Cozumel, "Liquid Blue Divers, the Great Pretenders". WHAT A GREAT BUNCH OF PEOPLE! Anyone really...

I, too, have dived with a bunch of Cozumel operators -- probably a dozen or so -- including Aldora in its heyday, and more recently with Liquid Blue and Blue XT Sea. In the early days, Aldora was highly recommended and deserved it. Then came several years of mismanagement and dissipation and...

Like I said above: "But, hey, it's only a room and can't really detract much from the great fun you'll have in Cozumel anyway. Taxi fare is 35 pesos into town." I have stayed in worse, and I have stayed in better, and for a bargain trip, I'll cut corners on everything but the diving. I...

because I got a $46US/night rate, tax and breakfast included. I was in a "standard" room for 3 days, during which I had absolutely no hot water (hell, no warm, even), and was told each afternoon after returning from diving that the problem had been fixed when it had not. They then moved me to...

for a week in Playa, and they loved it (although they still prefer Cozumel over Playa and Isla Mujeres, which they have also visited with me). As Dan said, it is a much more European than North American town, with a markedly more sophisticated tone, once you get four or five blocks north of the...

It's north of town, so, unless you use the onsite diveshop, Pepe Scuba (who, BTW, have gotten pretty positive reviews), you'll have to taxi south to meet your dive boat. Taxi fare is about $3.50 US to the town center, I believe. I have not stayed there, although I did check out the property a...

It is about a 130' dive in which you enter a chimney (read overhead environment) and descend through it with light (though sometimes fairly dim) always visible (unless the diver in front of you is large enough to block the light in a fairly narrow tunnel or kicks up a good bit of sand. It is...