Dive Review of Dive Palancar/Occidental Grand Cozumel in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

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Dive Palancar/Occidental Grand Cozumel, Aug, 2006, by Robert Morris, Pa, USA . Report 2965.
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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	Due to the great numbers of divers in Cozumel, if possible get together with a small number of advanced divers and you may be able to do some more exclusive sites further out or some that are really only for experienced divers like "Devil's Throat" (Punta Sur). This is a coral tunnel complex that starts at 80 ft. and twists and turns down to the exit at 130 ft. Not many fish on that dive but very interesting none the less. Requires a light and you will need to do a short decompression due to the time below 100ft. The reefs were in fairly good condition considering Hurricane Wilma spent 50 hours on Cozumel. Some broken coral and some sand in odd places on the walls. But many normal Caribbean fish of all types and in great numbers! Not much large life other than turtles, nurse sharks and Southern stingrays. Mostly drift dives in strong current; you cover a lot of reef and so you see a lot. Some unusual fish seen included Large Eye Toadfish, Splendid Toadfish (endemic to Cozumel), Sargassum Triggerfish and Yellow Stingray. Also saw Queen Angels and Cowfish in apparently mating behavior.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Cayman Islands, Belize, St.Croix, Utila, Nicaragua, Guadalupe, Key West, Jamaica, La Jolla
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	currents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	70-80 Ft/ 21-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	These dives were mostly drift dives and so were led by the DM and some involved decompression so were limited by air and computer.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	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	No camera-only rinse buckets were provided and no area to lay equipment out between dives. A litle difficult to compose images while drifting fast over the reef. But I managed to get some good photos due to the amount of fish and colorful inverts on the reefs.

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Dive Review of Dive Palancar/Occidental Grand Cozumel in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

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Dive Review of Dive Palancar/Occidental Grand Cozumel in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel