We got our PADI Open Water Cert in Jamaica about 20 years ago, and have not done any diving since then, we completed a ReActivate session in Portland Oregon prior to our trip to Cozumel. Our goal was to get back into diving, get some dives under our belts and complete some additional instruction. My wife settled on Secrets Aura for our hotel stay, and I contacted Dive House to arrange for Advanced Open Water Certification.
Dive house was very easy to work with, good communication and they answered all of my questions. I confirmed with them a couple days prior to our arrival and they were all ready for us at the small Hut on the beach, just past the Secrets Main lobby. Our assigned instructor was Jose, and I don’t think we could have asked for a better instructor. He is a master diver and has some really interesting experiences, like cave diving in Kentucky along with several other states. He was very patient with my wife, and made her feel very comfortable. The entire boat crew went out of their way to ensure we had a great trip, every time. Jose asked if we had considered EANx and we both had talked about it, but hadn’t done anything. We worked with them and completed the online learning in our room, and did the checkout on the boat. Jose brought a portable analyzer with him and we went over the details on setting up for EANx.
We did 7 dives over 3 days. All at interesting spots with plenty of underwater aquatic life and reefs. One thing about the dive sites in Cozumel is if you haven’t done much drift diving, you will do a lot here. I brought along my Christmas gift which was a SportDiver housing for my iPhone and got some great photos on the last day.
Overall I would have no problem recommending Dive House to both novice and experienced divers.
Secrets is a convenient location, however if you don’t care for loud entertainment and mediocre food, you may want to look at other hotel accommodations.
This was also the first trip we used our new Aqualung i770r AI computers which worked perfectly. Very easy to read underwater and syncs up nice with the iPhone.
Green Sea Turtle at 33’ shot with SportDiver-IPhone 13ProMax, no lights
Dive house was very easy to work with, good communication and they answered all of my questions. I confirmed with them a couple days prior to our arrival and they were all ready for us at the small Hut on the beach, just past the Secrets Main lobby. Our assigned instructor was Jose, and I don’t think we could have asked for a better instructor. He is a master diver and has some really interesting experiences, like cave diving in Kentucky along with several other states. He was very patient with my wife, and made her feel very comfortable. The entire boat crew went out of their way to ensure we had a great trip, every time. Jose asked if we had considered EANx and we both had talked about it, but hadn’t done anything. We worked with them and completed the online learning in our room, and did the checkout on the boat. Jose brought a portable analyzer with him and we went over the details on setting up for EANx.
We did 7 dives over 3 days. All at interesting spots with plenty of underwater aquatic life and reefs. One thing about the dive sites in Cozumel is if you haven’t done much drift diving, you will do a lot here. I brought along my Christmas gift which was a SportDiver housing for my iPhone and got some great photos on the last day.
Overall I would have no problem recommending Dive House to both novice and experienced divers.
Secrets is a convenient location, however if you don’t care for loud entertainment and mediocre food, you may want to look at other hotel accommodations.
This was also the first trip we used our new Aqualung i770r AI computers which worked perfectly. Very easy to read underwater and syncs up nice with the iPhone.
Green Sea Turtle at 33’ shot with SportDiver-IPhone 13ProMax, no lights
