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I'm not sure I agree with the other posters. I think it's a must, and maybe more than one. The night life underwater is awesome. Lots of octopuses, eels, crabs, lobster. If you find the right DM, he might be able to find a seahorse or two, too!
AdivingBel
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IMHO, the night diving in Coz can be fun, but it's not a must. Personally I enjoy night diving more in other locales mainly due to logistics. Besides, in Coz it cuts into my dinner reservations. 
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IMHO, the night diving in Coz can be fun, but it's not a must. Personally I enjoy night diving more in other locales mainly due to logistics. Besides, in Coz it cuts into my dinner reservations.
Good point. Eating at the many great restaurants is a must too.
DjDiverDan
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IMHO, the night diving in Coz can be fun, but it's not a must. Personally I enjoy night diving more in other locales mainly due to logistics. Besides, in Coz it cuts into my dinner reservations.
I’m kind of torn - I, too adore eating at the many great restaurants on Cozumel, and I have too many favorites to hit in only a week in Cozumel. But I also love the night dives, and the amazing life that’s out on the reef hunting at night. I’m no longer young enough to do the “dive, dive, and dive some more” thing, and if I’m on Coz for a week long stay, I’ll try to do 5 days of two-tank dive trips and one night dive, or even a twilight double header, during the week. On that night, I just do a late dinner and plan on a long siesta after diving the next day.
MrBigfins
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Did paradise and delilah, I preferred delilah. Paradise was mild current and delilah was moderate. Plenty of stuff to see when you duck down behind formations to hide from the current though. We had bioluminescent plankton on last night dive to delilah, was cool and funny to watch everyone thrash around to activate it. Definitely a must for me, have 4 scheduled for 2 week trip in July. Plus whale shark snorkeling, cenote diving and 4 a day reef dives most days we are there. This hobby is gonna make me miss my desired retirement date.
mikeycanuk
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I only do night dives on LOB’s. Too much work to get out again while on land.
Plus avoiding alcohol is much easier when you’re being watched lol.
Plus avoiding alcohol is much easier when you’re being watched lol.
We always do at least one night dive on every Cozumel trip. Sometimes we go on a boat dive, and sometimes we go shore diving from the Blue Angel point of entry, but it's a must-do for us.
Something I've said before that bears repeating is my advice to carry a compass whenever you shore dive without a guide, and that goes triple for a night dive. Relying on visual cues and/or the direction of the current for navigation is very unreliable, coming up to look around is dangerous, and everything looks different at night. A cheap fluid filled hiking compass will work just fine. Set the direction arrow to point to shore when the magnetic arrow points north and leave it that way.
Something I've said before that bears repeating is my advice to carry a compass whenever you shore dive without a guide, and that goes triple for a night dive. Relying on visual cues and/or the direction of the current for navigation is very unreliable, coming up to look around is dangerous, and everything looks different at night. A cheap fluid filled hiking compass will work just fine. Set the direction arrow to point to shore when the magnetic arrow points north and leave it that way.
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We've always enjoyed night dives in Cozumel, almost always opting for two night dives during a weeks stay. Over the last few trips we've reduced that to a single night dive and usually try for Santa Rosa Wall when possible. Great wall, lots of swim throughs, mucho life and even staying on top of the wall can be great. We've done night dives far south 
, wall dives (mostly Santa Rosa), Paradise (the OLD days), and during our last trip we went somewhere near Tormentos. There was a pretty good rain squall and the Dive Op balked at our Santa Rosa request and dropped us in an area that was pretty poor. I watched the DM swim in circles coming upon the same octopus 3-4 times and thinking it was "another" one. He was clueless …. we logged that dive location as: Punta Crappy. It's great to get back to our in-town location, shower, a few cocktails and then head to somewhere like Chilangos on Avenida 30 for Huaraches and Quesadillas. I "love" night dives …..
Bob
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, wall dives (mostly Santa Rosa), Paradise (the OLD days), and during our last trip we went somewhere near Tormentos. There was a pretty good rain squall and the Dive Op balked at our Santa Rosa request and dropped us in an area that was pretty poor. I watched the DM swim in circles coming upon the same octopus 3-4 times and thinking it was "another" one. He was clueless …. we logged that dive location as: Punta Crappy. It's great to get back to our in-town location, shower, a few cocktails and then head to somewhere like Chilangos on Avenida 30 for Huaraches and Quesadillas. I "love" night dives ….. Bob
Bethesda, MD
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