Trip Report Tres Pelicanos/Casa Mexican Trip Report Sept. 2018

[L13]

In my communications with Aldora they mention booking specific days/itineraries can be challenging because of possible port closures due to winds/Norte. My question is, in everyone's experience, how often does that actually happen from mid-December to the beginning of January?

Cozumel is closing sections of the reef on a rotating basis to reduce stress on the reef, and according to the dive op I used, which reef will be closed when is hard to predict.

 

[bdyslm]

Cozumel is closing sections of the reef on a rotating basis to reduce stress on the reef, and according to the dive op I used, which reef will be closed when is hard to predict.

Found this in my research

Cozumel Reef Closures 2022 — Scuba Dive Cozumel : Blue Note Scuba

 

[Snoweman]

was just in the process of doing that

To answer your question...I guess I don't really have a choice...if it gets blown out it gets blown out. Me being me, I'd prefer to have my itinerary as set as possible, mostly due to booking those other things. In the end, I might be disappointed but I'm not going to lose my mind if it does get blown out...I'm on vaca, I'll roll with it. And in the end my number one goal is diving, all of the other stuff is ancillary.

Any chance they can predict it a day or two ahead of time based on weather predictions?

There's a member, Christy who owned Blue XT Sea, that had a great spreadsheet of nortes by month for about three years. I can't find that post anymore.

 

[bdyslm]

There's a member, Christy who owned Blue XT Sea, that had a great spreadsheet of nortes by month for about three years. I can't find that post anymore.

I saw a couple of iterations on various threads...last i saw was in 2018 and she mentioned she hadn't been keeping it updated so I stopped looking. It seemed from what was in the spreadsheet January was the heavy month and December averaged 2-3 days. Of course, weather patterns have shifted quite a bit since then. but it gave some indication/baseline.

 

[inquis]

Cozumel is closing sections of the reef on a rotating basis to reduce stress on the reef, and according to the dive op I used, which reef will be closed when is hard to predict.

The marine park posts the reef closure schedule on its Facebook page. (No need for an account.) This was posted a month ago, showing San Francisco and Santa Rosa are currently closed: