Dive Review of Aldora Divers in
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Aldora Divers, Mar, 2006, by Rich Orman, CO, USA . Report 2355.
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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	Aldora is a great operation! The groups are small (no larger than six on a boat) and the tanks are BIG! By using 120 cu ft steel tanks, you are almost guarenteed a very long dive each and every time. The cost is 30-40% more than the cattle boats in Cozumel, but well worth it. I did three two tank dives with them, and the average dive time was about 80 minutes! I think that the shortest dive was 69 minutes (and we went pretty deep on that one), and I had two dives over 90 minutes, including a 98 minute night dive!!! They have a small fleet of boats (I saw five at the pier one morning), and they seem to group divers by experience and ability. All of the dives on the boats I was on used a backward roll entry. Upon exiting the water, Divers would remove their BCs in the water and they would be hauled into the boat by the captain. Divers would then climb into the boat on a ladder. All of their tanks use a DIN valve. I dropped off my SCUBAPRO MK25 first stage (yoke) on the night I arrived (they are open until about 9:00 pm., give or take), and they had it converted to a DIN the next morning. After my last dive (a night dive), they converted it back to my original yoke in about five minutes while I settled my bill. The morning dives leave the pier (which is in San Miguel about a block north of the McDonalds) at 7:30 a.m. and get back around 1:30 or 2:00. Surface intervals are taken at a beach club called "Playa Mia." Playa Mia is geared towards cruise ship passengers and is noisy and crowded, but they do sell you food, drinks, etc. I would highly recommend Aldora Divers and would not dream of diving with anyone else in Cozumel.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	BVI, Belize, Hawaii, Alaska
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, noCurrents
Water Temp	77-78°F / 25-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-100 Ft/ 18-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	These small boats are not really set up for serious UWP. The boats are too small for a camera area, and they don't have a rince tank. I kept wet towels over my housing to keep it moist until I could get it back to my hotel for a good soak in the tub.

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Dive Review of Aldora Divers in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Aldora Divers, Mar, 2006,

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Dive Review of Aldora Divers in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel