CocoView Dive Boats

[js1221]

We are leaving for CocoView next month and I was wondering how many divers each boat holds?

 

[KevinG58]

The boat loads top out at 14 or so. I've been on with 9 or 10 other divers a few times when the resort wasn't full. Typically over the course of the week some people (for example, me) will go their own way and the load will be smaller on a given day. Speaking of, do not skip the Mr. Bud, for my money one of the best boat dives, right up there with Calvin's crack and Mary's Place.

I counted the seats of the green boat (one their "standard" dive boats) a long time ago and I think there are 20. Easy Diver (cabin cruiser-looking) has fewer seats, I think, but I've only been aboard once.

 

[Allen-1]

They have a chalkboard for day/week. These are somewhat random pics i took last October.

 

[mattfish]

I was just there and I think I saw one boat that had 19, but it was all one group from a dive club. My boat (the best boat!) coco2 had 13 but there was always a buddy pair who skipped the boat for something else, so we were more like 10 most of the time. The boat feels very roomy with 10.

 

[gassed]

Speaking of, do not skip the Mr. Bud, for my money one of the best boat dives, right up there with Calvin's crack and Mary's Place.

Couldn't agree more. Luck dive in the basin. Wreck dive and inner/outer reefs. The outer reef, east and south off the bow is stunning.
We were lucky enough to dive the wreck its first week. We stayed an extra day and were the only ones the boat. Jesse (RIP) and Ruben decided to give the new site a try. The boat was upright and the middle of the basin. New with no growth. Over the years we have watched it move and grow.
On one trip we got to dive it twice. I would opt to dive its multiple options all week if I could!

 

[Karloss]

The boats will hold several divers but on our few visits the boat was never full. You should have all the room you would want. Remember this, what ever location of the locker you pick in the dive hut, that will be where they set your gear up on the boat. Imagine the dive hut being the boat with the front being the side nearest the dock.

 

[junkyard_dawg]

The boats will hold several divers but on our few visits the boat was never full. You should have all the room you would want. Remember this, what ever location of the locker you pick in the dive hut, that will be where they set your gear up on the boat. Imagine the dive hut being the boat with the front being the side nearest the dock.

Last year all the boats were pretty full when we arrived.....we got put on the EZ diver so no hull ladder for us. Still roomy enough and the DM always had the gear on the boat and waiting. I never heard anyone say they were cramped even with the full house.

We are going back next year and hope to get one of the other boats, not to say the EZ was a bad boat lol

 

[DreadnoughtNH]

I believe they 'max' out the boats at 20 divers, but on most weeks there are far less per boat.

We came with a club of over 30 4 years ago, and they divvied us into 2 boats.
We were just there last week with a group of 16, and were on one boat.

Talking to the DMs and captains, with groups larger than 12 they usually add a second DM as a safety diver. I like it that way as the dive usually ends up with 3 groups: the one tied to the lead DM (and generally the first ones to surface), a group 'in the middle', and then the slowpokes (like me) in the rear with the second DM.

I've been lucky to be on all the boats at this point. I have a slight preference for the red/blue/green/yellow boats over EZ Diver; those moonpools are a godsend when it's choppy!