Landshark; I dove with Scuba Caribe, 9 dives, March 1,2,3,4,6 of 2014. I bought 10 but they cancelled one day as I was the only diver. They are a good outfit but you are mixed with divers with no equipment and as few as 3 dives over their life. Not good.
The water temperature at the surface is 82f and as you travel to 70 feet it drops to 72f with both visual density changes and areas of extreme temperature difference. My 3 mil was just enough to do the job but a long time over 40 feet and it got cold. Most wore rented 5 mils from the shop. I do not like to pack on more than 6 lbs of lead with my 3 mil. The over 15 to 18 lbs of lead by the less experienced caused buoyancy issues and they were usually floating 10-15 feet above us. Current was an issue for some so, along with thermals, current and poor buoyancy control the dive master was busy.
Vis was poor to terrible. This makes sense when you see the photos from Costa Reefing above as they are all close ups of very small creatures. I did see all sting, eagle, skates, manta, and devil rays but photos were not good. Lots of porcupine fish, eels, small fish schools, white tip, turtle, clown shrimp, newdibrancs(sp). There is very little coral only rock. This makes sense due to the low light penetration. All big creatures were at a distance.
Although told we would, I never did get to Catalina Island even though we had 4 divers one day, enough for the cat boat we did not venture that far.
The 9th dive vis was 6 feet so after 20 minutes of eel sighting I had had enough and me and the master called it a day.
the earlier dive had a technical component to it as both me and the master tagged anchors to lift and relocate. They eventually got permission from management to take only one diver out.
Oh well back to the Caribbean