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TropiGal
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The last time we were in Coz was this past November. We stayed closer to town but had friends who stayed at Reef Club. We did our homework and decided to dive with Blue Angel (small boats - we only had four of us divers one day and six the other days). Great experience with them and the small group allowed us to dive our computers with no botom time limit set by dive master.
Our friends, on the other hand, dove with Sand Dollar out of the Reef Club, and had a much much different experience - not a good thing for divers making their first ocean dives. First off, they were told that they could NOT shore dive there and that's what they had planned to do some to help with the economics of the trip. So they signed up for a dive boat trip with them....Their comment that evening to me was a woeful "NOW we know what is meant by the term 'cattle boat' and impatient as well as 'non-attentive DM's'. After hearing their report of how the first day went, I suggested they dive with us and Blue Angel - which they did and had a much better experience. Blue Angel picked them up at the dock at Reef Club - no problem - and we headed toward the calm waters to dive as there were rough seas that day.
Blue Angel went out of their way to make it a pleasurable experience for us to include the fact that on the day that the smaller boats could not make it out of the harbor because of an "el norte" moving in, they pooled three groups of four divers and borrowed a larger boat from Dive Palancar and took the twelve of us out - but, they kept the individual DM's for each group so it was still very personalized in that respect. Just one problem at the end of that day, the borrowed boat broke down just as we were approaching the dock in front of Casa Del Mar...and we were drifting toward the cruise ships....
but a brave DM jumped out in the swift current that was running at the time and quickly tied us to a buoy out there...However; it took at least an hour for it to be determined that the boat was NOT going to be fixed out there in the water and they called another boat to pick us up. No biggie really other than some people were getting a little nauseous from the rolling boat and the diesel fumes as they tried to prime the engine repeatedly. Ok, so next time, I'll ask who they are borrowing the boat from!!
Still we had a great day of diving while others were forced to stay ashore and we were able to share the "great Coz diving experience" in a relaxed manner with friends making their first salt water dives. They are hooked for sure now!
I agree.....North area....way too far from dive sites and everything else.
Our friends, on the other hand, dove with Sand Dollar out of the Reef Club, and had a much much different experience - not a good thing for divers making their first ocean dives. First off, they were told that they could NOT shore dive there and that's what they had planned to do some to help with the economics of the trip. So they signed up for a dive boat trip with them....Their comment that evening to me was a woeful "NOW we know what is meant by the term 'cattle boat' and impatient as well as 'non-attentive DM's'. After hearing their report of how the first day went, I suggested they dive with us and Blue Angel - which they did and had a much better experience. Blue Angel picked them up at the dock at Reef Club - no problem - and we headed toward the calm waters to dive as there were rough seas that day.
Blue Angel went out of their way to make it a pleasurable experience for us to include the fact that on the day that the smaller boats could not make it out of the harbor because of an "el norte" moving in, they pooled three groups of four divers and borrowed a larger boat from Dive Palancar and took the twelve of us out - but, they kept the individual DM's for each group so it was still very personalized in that respect. Just one problem at the end of that day, the borrowed boat broke down just as we were approaching the dock in front of Casa Del Mar...and we were drifting toward the cruise ships....
but a brave DM jumped out in the swift current that was running at the time and quickly tied us to a buoy out there...However; it took at least an hour for it to be determined that the boat was NOT going to be fixed out there in the water and they called another boat to pick us up. No biggie really other than some people were getting a little nauseous from the rolling boat and the diesel fumes as they tried to prime the engine repeatedly. Ok, so next time, I'll ask who they are borrowing the boat from!!
Still we had a great day of diving while others were forced to stay ashore and we were able to share the "great Coz diving experience" in a relaxed manner with friends making their first salt water dives. They are hooked for sure now!
I agree.....North area....way too far from dive sites and everything else.
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