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Akumal Dive Center/Oasis Akumal, Apr, 2003, by Richard Powers, MI, USA . Report 633.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Oasis Akumal is a nice, quiet, small property with a nice beach and decent snorkling. The food is good and the staff is friendly and helpful. The rooms are relatively large with a unique shower/tub area with portholes. We had a second floor room right on the beach. About half of the hotel is an Italian travel club, but they have separate facilities for the most part and never caused any problems. Akumal is close to Tulum, the only major Mayan ruins on the Caribbean. The collective vans on the highway only cost about a dollar from Akumal to Tulum. The on-site dive shop was not very helpful. They only sell dives on-site. Their boats left from elsewhere. They pushed dive trips to Cozumel. If I had wanted to dive in Cozumel, I would have gone there. We dove with the Akumal Dive Center, who we also dove with in 1997. The service and prices were still good ($25 per dive, tax included). They take credit cards but you get a better deal if you pay cash. They picked us up at the resort and had lockers for equipment storage. Chepo, who was also there in 1997, is a very good dive master and points out a lot of stuff. The diving is all on spur and groove reefs. The boats are small and fast. Entry is by backroll and exits are by handing all equipement up and then climbing a ladder on the side of the boat. Exits can be difficult when it is rough. The boat follows the divers and picks them up at the end of the dive. We saw a lot of turtles, including two huge loggerheads. We also saw a school of six large barracuda chasing each other. It is amazing how fast they can move. We also saw a large school of Southern Sonnet. There were a few small grouper and medium numbers of the usual tropicals. The number and size of the fish is well below Cozumel but it is a nice area for a change of pace. It was very rough the first few days because of a storm and there was no diving one day. It is usually fairly rough, especially in the afternoons as the easterly trade winds pick up. The dives are generally 5-15 minutes from the shop.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Jamaica, Grand Turk
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, dry	Seas	choppy, surge
Water Temp	80-81°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Time, depth,follow the dive master
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
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	Small boats with plenty of room but no specific facilities for cameras.

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Dive Review of Akumal Dive Center/Oasis Akumal in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Akumal

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Dive Review of Akumal Dive Center/Oasis Akumal in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Akumal