Best second dive suggestions from a boat!!

[robd]

I am looking for suggestions for the best 2nd dive sites in Cozumel. Please post your suggestions and why if you would please.

Thanks

 

[ggunn]

I am looking for suggestions for the best 2nd dive sites in Cozumel. Please post your suggestions and why if you would please.

Thanks

Colombia Shallows, hands down. It's a huge reef with large coral formations on a flat bottom. The joke is that if you want to go deeper than 30' you'll have to bring a shovel, so on a sunny day with good viz the light is fantastic. Every time I have gone there the current has been slow to nonexistent. Some of the coral heads there reach within 8' or so of the surface, and unlike most of the reefs on the southern half of the island it was practically untouched by Hurricane Wilma.

It's way south so your first dive will need to be at a southern reef; Colombia Deep and Colombia Shallows is a great pairing. I dive there at least twice on every Coz trip; one trip we went there 5 times in 2 weeks. It's aquarium diving at its best.

 

[AdivingBel]

Colombia Shallows, hands down.

LOL...that would get you tossed off our boat followed by "if I wanted that kind of dive I'd go to the Keys." j/k It's a nice dive. We would more likely do Punta Tunich or Cedral. All boats are different. Main thing is to relax and enjoy. To the OP, if you don't know the sites yourself go where the boat (and other Coz divers) takes you. You'll have fun.

 

[ggunn]

LOL...that would get you tossed off our boat followed by "if I wanted that kind of dive I'd go to the Keys." j/k It's a nice dive. We would more likely do Punta Tunich or Cedral. All boats are different. Main thing is to relax and enjoy. To the OP, if you don't know the sites yourself go where the boat (and other Coz divers) takes you. You'll have fun.

I have never dived the Keys; are you saying that I could have the same quality of dive there as on Colombia Shallows? That would be news to me.

But, at any rate, Tuniche and Cedral are also dives I really enjoy, and you can't do the same second dive every day, so there's plenty of room for diversity if you are diving more than a day or two. I can't wait to start diving again. Pinché pandemic!

 

[Dave Dillehay]

I vote for Santa Rosa Wall at 70 ft, followed by a swim toward shore to some real pristine shallow stuff for deco stop.

Or Delila

 

[shagles]

I’m leaving Cozumel today after 2 great days of diving. My 2nds were Cedral and the last half of Yucab into Tormentos. Both were excellent and we ran out of air long before our NDL.

 

[ggunn]

...the last half of Yuca (?)...

Yucab

 

[shagles]

Yucab

Thank you. Never heard that one quite well enough.

 

[flyboy08]

Lol...such a bias request....ok, I’ll bite..Punta Sur.

Bricks if you like swim throughs?

 

[ggunn]

Lol...such a bias request....ok, I’ll bite..Punta Sur.

Bricks if you like swim throughs?

He asked for suggestions for a second dive.