Dive Review of Aldora Divers/N/A in
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Aldora Divers/N/A, Feb, 2008, by Steven J. Bissell, CO, USA ( 1 report). Report 4158.
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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
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Comments	I’ve been diving Cozumel for 15+ years and I’ve experience the good, the bad, and the truly awful. This is my second year of diving with Aldora Divers and I’ll stick with them. The reason I switched is because the best (in my opinion) dive master on Cozumel went to work for Aldora. Memo, the owner of Aldora, keeps his eyes open and hires the best DMs he can find and he more or less has a ‘one strike and you’re out’ rule for bad DMs. Aldora has mostly small boats and unless it is really busy you’ll only be with four or five other divers. They also have a big, 42 foot, boat for the days when the Harbor Master won’t allow small boats out. But even on the big boat your dive party will be no bigger than four of five divers and have your own DM. I know that all this is just a matter of opinion and we all have that, but I have been with a lot of operations on Cozumel over the years and Aldora is the one which I’d use to judge everyone else. BTW, I dove about twice a week for two months this year and saw some big sharks other than nurse sharks. One was a big Black Tip and the other we debated about. In the end we decided that it was ether a Bull Shark or a Caribbean Reef Shark. Both were around the 12 foot size and we saw them on Columbia Deep, which is my personal favorite dive site. This is the only the second time in 15 years I’ve seen sharks other than nurse sharks. The other time was a huge Hammer Head who came and looked at us on our safety stop!
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Canary Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Coral Sea, Saba, Mediterranean (not worth the effort).
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy	Seas	surge
Water Temp	78-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	25-100 Ft/ 8-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	120 max. All divers required to have computer. Everyone goes down and comes up together unless you get prior permission from the DM.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	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	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
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Dive Review of Aldora Divers/N/A in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

Aldora Divers/N/A, Feb, 2008,

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