Should I check out other dive ops?

[Kimela]

I am heading to Cozumel in June and am staying at the InterContinental Presidente. Wondering if there is any need to venture out any try other dive operators or should the hotel's dive shop cover all my needs? I purchased a package with the hotel, so most the diving is included, but if there is anything - must see - I might miss then let me know.

The big hotels love to keep you in their walled garden but I am more than happy to go out and explore.

I didn’t know you could buy packages at Presidente. Where was that offered? Now I’m curious. - Never mind - I see it on their website.

 

[Scratch_Monkey]

One day some years ago, a couple diving on a boat with us went deeper than we felt comfortable with on the second dive (so we stayed well above them), and when they got back in the boat both their (borrowed or rented) computer displays were flashing. They were clueless that it meant that they had blown a deco stop. Their biggest concern was when they found out that the flashing displays meant that the computers would not work for 24 hours; they had afternoon dives scheduled later that day. I hope they got through the day OK.

I'm a little late to this thread but last year in Roatan, I saw something similar. I was at the shop during our surface interval when these ladies asked me about why their computer was acting weird. (How am I supposed to know? I know MY computer, not anyone else's! Unless they have the same model as me!)

But I told them it looked like their computers locked them out because they did something wrong with regard to their no decompression times. They could not have cared any less. I hope they were all okay!