Find world class scuba diving in Cozumel, and
all of our
Cozumel Villa Rentals are right on the ocean.
Scuba Diving
is a sport we
just picked up when we decided to travel to
Cancun and
Cozumel for the millennium.
It would seem like blasphemy to travel to
Cozumel, home of the world's
greatest drift diving and, at times, 200+ feet of visibility, without
trying diving. So, we attended our open-water training course through
Thunder Reef Divers
in Vancouver,
Washington (A
PADI 5-star facility)
in September, 1999. The bookwork breezed with PADI's CD-ROM tutorial,
though there was sure a lot more to know than we had expected! The
confined water training took place in Thunder Reef's own swimming pool,
which was no big deal, except that I couldn't clear my ears! I have
allergies, a divers nemesis, and at this point I had not yet discovered
Afrin! We passed, though, and headed up to Les Davis Marine Park
in Tacoma, Washington for our open-water training in Puget Sound.
The water
was unbelievably cold, with temperatures in the 40s underwater, but we
were adequately protected by 11mm 2-piece wetsuits, hoods, gloves and
boots (We've gotta get dry suits, though!). The visibility was poor,
since we were milling around on the silty bottom, sometimes nonexistent.
When we got moving, I had trouble again clearing my ears and found myself
drifting away from everyone else! When we found them, we swam around
for a little while, adjusting to our first underwater experience.
We saw crabs, huge anemones, and a few fish. Kind of cool, but nothing
to get too excited about. While swimming, visibility was never more
than 40 feet or so, usually quite a bit less. But, we passed and
were psyched up to visit Cancun
and Cozumel in December!
Check out the links at left for reviews of the reefs and reports of our
trip!
We just
returned from diving in Hawaii,
off the islands of
Lana'i, Maui,
Kaua'i, and the Big Island. We dove with manta rays, sharks, turtles,
and dolphins, along with hundreds of other sea creatures in the beautiful
waters of Hawaii. We're working on web pages for those trips as
we speak. Following that will be our latest trip: the Florida
Keys! Don't forget to check back!
Aside from
photographs of our trips, we have included links to diving-related sites
of the Northwest and others that have proven to be valuable to us in our
research of what equipment to buy and where to go. You can visit
these in the Northwest Scuba Directory.
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