Cozumel Shore Diving

[scubadada]

Off topic but is Mateo possibly the same Mateo who worked for Aldora specifically around 2016-2017? Tall and slender?

No worries, Mateo (definitely tall and skinny) from Aldora was by far one of the very best divers I’ve ever known/dove with and (I believe) he started freelancing in 2018/19 so I thought he might had ended up at BA.

My son and I dived with Mateo at Aldora in 2006 and he was our guide on day trip to Dos Ojos. I've wondered if he is still in Cozumel.

 

[BRT]

My advice: use the ladder on the BA dock. There is a funneling effect between the concrete surrounding the BA pool and the property next door that often makes for a lot of surge between them even when things are quite calm, and a boat wake can cause breaking waves in there. Also, in addition to urchins, etc. the footing is precarious, especially when you are still geared up.

I have never used the ladder but I will agree that the exit direct to the dive shop is challenging.

 

[BRT]

I think she wants to enter at Tikila and exit at VB. That might be the extent of their range. Extending exit to Blue Angel would be a much longer range and subject to pace and air consumption. If entering at VB then exit at BA is easy. As Gordon said, if diving along the shore there's little risk of going too wrong. If diving the wall you are aways out there and a long way from help if things go wrong. As for not going too far, it's hard to miss the big trans-channel power cable and you could follow it in.

It's been a long time since I dived and exited at VB. Used to be a ladder on the pier there.

Villablanca to BA is an easy dive to do on a tank unless for some reason the current reversed. If it did, just go back to Villablanca.

 

[ggunn]

As for not going too far, it's hard to miss the big trans-channel power cable and you could follow it in.

The last time I dove Villablanca Wall the current was so strong that if we had been diving from shore and waited to head in until we saw the cable, we would not have made it to shore before getting swept into the ferry pier. But it's been many years since I did that dive from shore; it was before the new pier was there and I was that many years younger.

 

[ggunn]

Villablanca to BA is an easy dive to do on a tank unless for some reason the current reversed. If it did, just go back to Villablanca.

When Eva still had Turquoise and the BA north dive shop where we could get tanks and weights, at least once per trip we would walk there from BA and drift back, usually at night. It is a cool dive.