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Only the other tourists on that boat would possibly discuss it. Operators and other businesses might discuss it among themselves, but not to tourists.
I have had private conversations with several operators in Cozumel over the years regarding accidents. It seems there is an unwritten code that you do not talk a lot about them to the public. It is a very tight group with a lot of competition. Outing an unsafe operation is signing your own operation's death warrant.
A good example is the big story a couple years ago when that female instructor died and her DM was paralyzed doing a bounce dive to over 300 feet. Many people, operations wise, it seems knew they did this kind of crap. Yet no one said anything to anyone in a position to stop it.
As a result that one day one man's life was changed forever and his family put in real economic danger. A woman died and her family devastated. Just as bad was the fact that valuable resources were tied up to aid two people doing something stupid and a real accident victim could have also died because those resources would not have been available for them.
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