Need a recommendation for dive charter in Cozumel

[Jandee]

I'm leaving for Cozumel on Friday, staying a week at Casa Mexicana. Looking for a good dive operation. Want to do 4 dives a day and a couple of night dives. Taking my own gear. Who should I contact?

 

[DandyDon]

I'm leaving for Cozumel on Friday, staying a week at Casa Mexicana. Looking for a good dive operation. Want to do 4 dives a day and a couple of night dives. Taking my own gear. Who should I contact?

Wow, you're visiting during Carnival and haven't booked a dive Op yet?! At other times I'd ask what's important to you, but for that week - whoever you can find with room.

Four a day is a reach, but you can take your gear down to Blue Angel, 1.6 miles from your hotel according to google maps, and rent tanks & weights for shore diving. It's not great, but depending on your preferences - can be fun.

 

[Sgraves2505]

I've used Dive Paradise twice and Pro Dive once. Both were fine, but I really liked Dive Paradise and would choose them again the next trip. Pro Dive staff seemed to be mostly ex cruise ship staff, where Dive Paradise staff was mostly locals. Dive Paradise DMs seemed to take more pride in the locations and worked harder to ensure you enjoyed the dive. Pro Dive seemed to be better organized with better wash tanks, boats, and equipment, but it seemed more like a just job to them.


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[ggunn]

I'm leaving for Cozumel on Friday, staying a week at Casa Mexicana. Looking for a good dive operation. Want to do 4 dives a day and a couple of night dives. Taking my own gear. Who should I contact?

There are a ton of dive ops on Cozumel and they are virtually all good. Google is your friend; start contacting ops on line and see which ops have space (as Don pointed out it's kind of late to start trying to find space on a boat during Carnaval) who offer the amenities you are looking for. Coming here and asking for a dive op recommendation without giving any information on what you are looking for is a bit like asking "What food is good?"

The good news is that you could pretty much pick an op at random and be fine.

 

[MMM]

You are staying in town so you are limited in your choices to those who will pick you up in town, or those who will pay your cab fare to the caleta. Unless you want to take your own taxi to the caleta each day (which will run you about $20 return) or you rent a car.

Those who pick up in town are Aqua Safari, just steps from your hotel, and at the pier further down the road, Living Underwater, Aldora, Blue XTSea and, I think, Deep Blue. There may be one or two others but they escape me at the moment. Dive Paradise operates out of the Barracuda Hotel which is down a block or two the other direction. I have heard others on the board say that Tres Pelicanos and Blue Magic will pay your cab fare to the harbour, but you would need to confirm that. As to 4 dives a day, I rather suspect that will be difficult to line up. First of all, due to the depths of most dives (and especially dive time lengths with the steel tank operators), it is hard to get them all in during daylight with sufficiently long surface intervals in between. As Don mentioned, you are coming at a VERY busy time...highest of high season, pretty much. Good luck finding someone!

 

[Lorenzoid]

. . . . Coming here and asking for a dive op recommendation without giving any information on what you are looking for is a bit like asking "What food is good?"

Well for one thing the OP asked about FOUR dives a day. That is common in many places, but not Cozumel. As far as I know, a 2-dive trip is the basic package with most Coz dive ops, and there is usually an option to add a third dive in the afternoon.

Do ANY Coz dive ops do FOUR dives in a day? I suppose with the addition of an afternoon and night dive every day, one could do four in 24 hours, but I've gotten the feeling that many dive ops discourage all but the Navy Seals among us from doing that all through our stay. I don't know why. Maybe because it's often difficult for them to predict what dive sites you'll be taken to the next day, and if it turns out to be a deep-ish day, that could add more risk.

Edit: I see MMM posted a good answer to this just before I posted.

 

[jbjclj]

Try Tres Pelicanos. They are 1/2 block from Casa Mexicana and they transport you to and from the caleta

 

[Ron Lee]

aldora.com

You are welcome.

You may need to use a second dive op to get a twilight dive or two tank afternoon in every day.

Be sure to have good DAN insurance.

 

[DandyDon]

And some here will just cheerlead for their favorite Ops, regardless of your needs.

 

[Midge907]

Try Tres Pelicanos. They are 1/2 block from Casa Mexicana and they transport you to and from the caleta

These guys were doing a 2-tank morning boat, and a 2-tank afternoon boat the last time I checked. As others have mentioned it is a dive community that mostly caters to the 2-tank a day crowd, however 4-tanks a day can be done. The easiest on the body schedule to me is doing your 2-tank morning dive, then doing the 2-tank twilight/night dive. I went there during Carnival the first time I went, and several of the boats from different operations had openings.