Mike
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What's a backup? You mean like a lifeguard or something?
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I totally agree. I've had plenty of Cozumel dives that were less than perfect because of the need to keep up the DM who, in my not at all humble opinion, was diving way too fast. In a strong current at Tormentos, the DM actually wanted all the divers to hold hands so we could stay as a group, believe it or not!Well, I am not sure why I'm supposed to want to dive with Dave, or why I would care? Personally if I had it my way, I'd rather not dive with any dive master at all no matter what their name was. I much prefer the independence of the way dives are conducted in the Florida Keys or Bonaire where the boat drops you at the dive site and you're responsible for your dive from start to finish. A dive master in the waters in Cozumel to me is just another diver in the group, I give him his respect due, but I don't follow him around like a puppy or get all googly eyed over them like they are diving celebrities or something.
Like a boat with an engine that can outrun the currents.What's a backup? You mean like a lifeguard or something?
Like a boat with an engine that can outrun the currents.
The hand holding DM worked for Aldora, BTW.... holding hands on a dive and looking at another rare lobster, sounds like a little peace of heaven. LOL
only thing that would make that better is a divemaster continuously using a quacker pointing out lobsters.
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What currents? Like a rip current?
How is the East side shore dive different than say any typical California shore dive? Not talking about shore diving it off the iron shore and getting ground up on the rocks, but from one of the sandy beaches and not during a time when there are 5 foot waves breaking on the shore.
Seems like there is some mystique over the east side that if you dip your toe in the waters there you're pretty much gonna die.
I'm thinking you shore dive off a nice sandy beach, in nice surf, you descent, swim out, swim around, swim back, what am I missing? Is the belief that you swim out and get caught is a horrendous current and get pulled out to sea, or ripped down the coast and have to exit on iron shore and get smashed, or it's like a washing machine and you get pummelled into the bottom?
If you want to buy my direct flight on Frontier, put me up at the Palace and feed, I'll watch your back. ( Oh, plus a thousand dollars a day! )What's a backup? You mean like a lifeguard or something?
If you want to dive with a big company, dive with Dive Paradise. Me, I prefer personal service. I like knowing I'm diving not with one of many dive masters on staff but with the owner himself, dive after dive after dive. Have many dives have you done with Dave, just curious? Do you even get the same DM from day to day, let alone from trip to trip?
Im looking for referrals to a dive boat that is fast, small, and takes experienced divers to the best drift diving sites off the island.
Not so much that he's the owner, but the sole DM. You book with him, you dive with him. He's very, very good and that's coming from someone who normally hates follow-the-DM style diving. I've dove with about 15 different DMs in Cozumel, probably with around 100 DMs overall, and I've disliked diving with 98% of them.Why someone needs to dive with the owner is beyond me but if that suits you....great.