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Customs Banditos

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The Cabo San Luca Airport in Baja, Mexico, seems to be the only Mexican airport where customs agents enforce obscure and uncertain regulations, or perhaps just their personal regulations, to extract money from divers traveling with photo gear. Enforcement seems random, but if you're picked, you will pay, as did Michael Millett of Dublin, California.

"A customs agent directed me to run my bags through a scanner, and another declared my housing was a camera. I must pay a 19 percent sales tax. I opened the housing to show him it was just a metal waterproof box, not a camera. He said it, too, was subject to the sales tax....


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