Living Underwater dive op - any comments/recommendations?

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Shoc369

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Has anyone done any diving with them or heard anything about them? Thanks.
 
We came back a couple of weeks ago and we had a good time with Jeremy's crew. Due to my wife's longer than usual ear-clearing peculiarity, I did not get to dive the spots that I really want to check out now in Cozumel: Punta Sur and Maracaibo, but while we were diving the regular spots (Palancar, etc.), Jeremy went there with other divers. Annie from Quebec was our DM and she was cool. Dove the last day with Jeremy and he's a fantastic diver. Watching him glide in the water you can learn a lot about air economy and proper buoyancy.
Now about the 120s: they can be a mixed blessing because: they're heavy, both on the boat (duh!) but also in the water as when you roll on the side you can really feel the tank pull you around. They take some getting used to but you certainly will be logging some of the longest one-tank dives there, like minimum 75 minutes and up to 93, 95 minutes! Which brings two other details: bring some kind of hooded vest (I have a 3/5 mm Mares that works pretty good) along with your 3 mm or even a 5 mm jumpsuit or two piece with hood, unless you're a polar bear from Canada (as there was one on our trip: farmer john, skulll cap and T-shirt on every dive!). And the other thing is you can feel like you're running out of real-estate and things to see when the animals aren't out. There can be long stretches of not much going on. But at least you won't feel the need for a third dive, leaving the rest of the afternoon free to hang out. Plan on a pick up between 8 and 9 am and coming back between 2:30 and 3:30 depending on where you're staying.
Anyway other than that the boat was somewhat punctual (on average 15 minutes late) and we had a lot of fun. I'd do it again and I wish Jeremy the best luck with his operation, he deserves success because he works very hard.
 
Shoc369,

My wife and I have been to Cozumel 14 times and will be headed back there in two week. On our last seven trips we have dove with Living Underwater.

Jeremy Anshcel is the owner and he uses 95 and 120 LP steel tanks. You can count on lots of personal service including taking your gear back home each day rinsing it out and having all assembled when you step on the dive boat each day.

The boat will hold a max of 8 divers and we have never dove with more than six. Have dove all the dive sites both north and south.

You can plan on diving deeper and longer than most of the other dive operations will do. A LP 120 full at 2400 will give you 144 cu. ft. at 2900 psi. I use the 95 and my uses the 120. We average 1 hr 20 min bottom times with max depth in the 120 range.

If you have good diving skills and air consumption you can plan on doing Devil's Throat as a full deco dive spending about a half an hour in and around the coral head.

Jeremy's operation is very similar to Aldora (dove with them with two times) and Liquid Blue (dove with them three times).

Surface intervals are about 1:30 to 2:00 at a local beach resort. Excellent personal service and a very professionally run operation. If you have more questions please feel free to drop me a PM.
 

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