Dive Review of Divetech/Cobalt Coast Resort in
Cayman Islands/Grand Cayman

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Divetech/Cobalt Coast Resort, Oct, 2013, by George Borton, FL, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 7256.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
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Comments	The resort was very good - Arie is a great host, food was good, and service was excellent. Very accommodating. Dive operation was OK but certainly not the greatest. Staff was friendly and a few were very helpful. On one dive any similarity between the plan and the actual was coincidental. Nitrox was supplied on the boat. Analyzer was never calibrated to 21% - whatever was measured on air (eg 23%) was assumed to be the correction on nitrox (eg it was reading 2% high). On several days we received nitrox bottles that had not been filled and resulted in either swapping gear to other bottles or dragging bottles over to check the pressure with our own rig. Even after the first time we had short bottles there was no pressure gauge on board to make it easy to check. Because of windy conditions/high surf we had to go to the other side of the island to get the boat and dive. There was occasional help from staff in getting the gear on the trucks, but at times they would come to the van and tell us that there was gear on the ground rather than put it in the truck. Only one time did a dive master go out of his/her way to find stuff - they basically led us out and back to the boat and no more. Unless requested there was no assistance given in swapping gear over on the boat so if that is important to you you'll need to ask. I prefer to take care of my own stuff so that was not an issue for me. We saw turtles and one group saw one eagle ray close enough to photograph. Two others were seen way in the distance by one or two people. We also saw a couple of green morays and one spotted moray. I had about 15 dives and no other large animals were around which was surprising. I rated the shore diving a 3 because we only got to do a couple due to surf conditions and didn't see much except topography on either one.
Websites	Divetech Cobalt Coast Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Bonaire, Palau, Yap, Bali, Thailand, Florida Keys, Florida East Coast, Gulf of Mexico
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	81-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	80-120 Ft/ 24-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Pretty much free to follow our own profile
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Camera buckets on boat and ashore.

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Dive Review of Divetech/Cobalt Coast Resort in Cayman Islands/Grand Cayman

Divetech/Cobalt Coast Resort, Oct, 2013,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Divetech/Cobalt Coast Resort in
Cayman Islands/Grand Cayman