Personal Cozumel Information Link

[Dave Dillehay]

Given the expressions of dismay over the lack of information on the conditions of people and places in Cozumel, and the difficulty in supplying answers to all inquiries on this forum, we will make our staff available to research and answer questions about any resident or location. You ask a question and I will have our otherwise idle dive instructors find out the answer. We have a 4 wheel drive jeep and plenty of gas!

Just go to http:aldora.com and click on Wilma Recovery information. Once we have your request we will get it followed up on as soon as we possibly can. The link should be up by 8 am tomorrow.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

 

[Martha]

That is an awesome thing for you to do. You rock!

 

[Nalidixic]

Given the expressions of dismay over the lack of information on the conditions of people and places in Cozumel, and the difficulty in supplying answers to all inquiries on this forum, we will make our staff available to research and answer questions about any resident or location. You ask a question and I will have our otherwise idle dive instructors find out the answer. We have a 4 wheel drive jeep and plenty of gas!

Just go to http:aldora.com and click on Wilma Recovery information. Once we have your request we will get it followed up on as soon as we possibly can.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

Hi. Just curious, is there any over exageration going on through the media or are they telling things like they are? Just a few posts ago, I read that the Hotel Barracuda is totally gone, but in another news piece I found on google, it said that the hotel only had a few broken windows. What is the status on that hotel? Glad to hear that you made it through ok.

Mike

 

[colonelchuck]

Given the expressions of dismay over the lack of information on the conditions of people and places in Cozumel, and the difficulty in supplying answers to all inquiries on this forum, we will make our staff available to research and answer questions about any resident or location. You ask a question and I will have our otherwise idle dive instructors find out the answer. We have a 4 wheel drive jeep and plenty of gas!

Just go to http:aldora.com and click on Wilma Recovery information. Once we have your request we will get it followed up on as soon as we possibly can.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

Thanks Dave. Aldora is a class operation.
http://www.aldora.com is a better link

 

[TheRedHead]

Hi. Just curious, is there any over exageration going on through the media or are they telling things like they are? Just a few posts ago, I read that the Hotel Barracuda is totally gone, but in another news piece I found on google, it said that the hotel only had a few broken windows. What is the status on that hotel? Glad to hear that you made it through ok.

Mike

Reuters reports:

COZUMEL, Mexico, Oct 24 (Reuters) - When vicious hurricane winds and massive waves pounded Mexico's Caribbean island of Cozumel, 17 people ran from one improvised bunker to another as the Hotel Barracuda collapsed in bits around them.

They first tried to ride out Hurricane Wilma in their rooms but then took refuge in a first floor corridor as doors flew off, windows exploded and the churning ocean tore back and forth through the shattered lobby below.

The 12 American scuba divers, two Dutch tourists and three Mexican hotel employees tried to make extra walls with packs of building tiles but gave up when water poured in from above.

So they hid out in another room and then crammed inside toilets before Mexican navy officers finally broke in and pulled them out at the height of the storm.

They were lucky, because now nothing at all is left of Hotel Barracuda.

"You could feel the waves banging at the wall, the water was coming over the three-storey hotel," said Hans Van Erp, a 40-year-old Dutch bookseller. "Every time we thought 'It can't get any worse', it did."

-----------

Reuters suggests that, yes, it is gone.

 

[halocline]

Just go to http:aldora.com and click on Wilma Recovery information. Once we have your request we will get it followed up on as soon as we possibly can. The link should be up by 8 am tomorrow.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

Hello Dave;

I could not get to a place on your site to post a request; maybe that's the part you say will be up tomorrow. Anyhow, I'm really concerned about Robert and Roberta of Roberta's Dive Eco cozumel; how they fared personaly, and the state of their B&B Village Tankah. If you have any info, I'd be very grateful for it!

Thanks, Matt

 

[charel]

It's up and running now, you can find it at:

http://www.aldora.com

Webmaster

 

[scubacoz22]

Chuck you are right Aldora is a class act. They do it right 100%. Kathy in Texas

 

[charel]

Update as of Oct, 26th. at www.aldora.com.

 

[pilot fish]

I'm very impressed that Aldora is helping out like this. Yes, they seem to be a class act.