What happened to Cozumel?

[Wheeler925]

He did not write that the flight prices were comparable but that the total costs were similar.

He literally said "Flights were comparable."

 

[David Novo]

He literally said "Flights were comparable."

I stand corrected, missed that part.

 

[ChrisM]

I have had the same same experience most of the time diving with Aldora with 32 and 36. And to the poster a couple up, Pedro at Blue XTSea use to test every nitrox tank before we left the dock for the 1st dive or during the SI for the second dive.

Prior to the last trip in Nov. I'd always only dived with BXTS and primarily Pedro, so I assumed that most Coz ops analyzed the tanks to show you the reading. I guess that isn't the case

 

[ReefHound]

Does your open water cert say you need to analyze air or is routine compressor maintenance good enough? Are they mixing your air?

What does that have to do with "Not knowing exactly what you are breathing"? If you don't know what's in the tank you don't know what's in the tank, regardless of what anyone says.

The whole point is you don't know what they are doing with your air or how it got in your tank. I've personally seen air tanks filled with nitrox accidentally. The bottom line is the air diver is "trusting" that the fill operators didn't make a mistake and fill the tank with nitrox.

 

[russ805]

What flights are you taking where they're comparable in price to cozumel? For me, coming from Wisconsin, flights to the phillipines were ~1600 round trip with extended travel (12+ hrs), round trip to cozumel $500-700, be there in six hours..

My flight from Los Angeles with Cathway Pacific was for $760 with seat selections, $810 on Booking.com.
If cost for Cozumel works for you, definately go!
Cozumel blew my mind, it's an amazing place, it's just gone up considerably in the past few years. Just read other trip reports and decide if it works for you.

 

[Wheeler925]

My flight from Los Angeles with Cathway Pacific was for $760 with seat selections, $810 on Booking.com.
If cost for Cozumel works for you, definately go!
Cozumel blew my mind, it's an amazing place, it's just gone up considerably in the past few years. Just read other trip reports and decide if it works for you.

Oh I'm already going to cozumel in May. I've dove a few times already through cruise ship excursions there. My next dive focused trip will be a liveaboard, I think.

 

[russ805]

Oh I'm already going to cozumel in May. I've dove a few times already through cruise ship excursions there. My next dive focused trip will be a liveaboard, I think.

The water in Coz will be extremly warm. I loved diving with Aldora, they use steel tanks, Nitrox included, over 60 min bottom time (depends on your lungs) and less weight need due to the steel tanks.
I dove with Sharkey's too, great knowledgeable team and surface intervals was on a beach...great guacamole too.
You can't go wrong with either dive operators.

 

[Shawn C]

This thread has taken so many different turns and off-ramps that I no longer recall what the point was to begin with.

 

[ggunn]

This thread has taken so many different turns and off-ramps that I no longer recall what the point was to begin with.

Any thread that has 278 posts in it is probably going to look like that. It's like any other conversation.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

This thread has taken so many different turns and off-ramps that I no longer recall what the point was to begin with.

It started with a guy saying that he thought Cozumel was bland and lifeless plus they didn't support his DIR lifestyle to his satisfaction.
Then I thanked him for the candid review since it was directly opposed to the usual gushing from the fanboi's.
That started an out of control wind driven wildfire of controversy. So that's how threads grow to that size and derail several times.
If there's one thing I've inadvertently learned from my time on scubaboard is how to push buttons, not that it was an intent to troll, it's just a by-product of studying topics and the discussions.