waynel
Contributor
I've been diving Cozumel for 15 years. Belize, the Keys...you name any place in the carib or atlantic. We all get on these forums and talk about how wonderful the divers were, what we saw, the ops, how great the dive master was...but we never talk about ourselves. And by that I mean...the people we dive with. And that's the beautiful thing about diving. We dive with people of every walk of life, income level, etc. And the only reason I post this on the Cozumel site is because, for all the places I have dived, Cozumel diving, like South Beach in Miami when just laying on a beach is where you will meet the most diverse people. In Cozumel, I have dived with multi-millionares and not know it until the third of fourth day of the dive (on a six-pack, not the cattle boats). I have been on the little boats with journalists, doctors, lawyers, guys who own 200 unit condos in Coz, you name it. But on that little six pack boat? You do five or six SITS with them and you suddenly start talking to them, not as contractors (like me) or doctors, lawyers, government officials from around the world...but as "divers." When you go down 100 ft. on Columbia, or shoot Devil's Throat, your "position" in life doesn't matter. It's all about diving. My latest dive in Coz was with such professionals. It was with Christi's op, and thank you Christi for sending a boat out with just three divers. And we all had different "real world" jobs. But in that boat...we were just divers, and we all had the same skill level. The last dive I ever did with my wife, before she died was with a journalist, Donald Gardner. He videotaped the dive, and we were lucky enough to see pilot whales swimming along he boat on the way in. It's still on You Tube to this day. My point is this...diving a world class site like Cozumel is where we meet divers from all over the world, extremely rich to just us folks. And for all the great ops and wonderful things we see when we dive....meeting people from all over the world, and from all economic and social levels is what now, after 15 years, makes me keep booking my trips to Cozumel. We divers are absolutely in a very, very small club.