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Dive with Martin/Hotel Cozumel: "Good diving with mix of drift and swim thru's and contaminated gear", May, 2021, by Jack A Ray, GA, US ( Reviewer 3 reports). Report 11761.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Value for $$
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Comments	We went as part of a dive shop group of over 15 people. We were split up between two dive boats, we were on the smaller of the two with 9 divers. Pick up times at our resort were always on time. The Dive master and boat captain were both very helpful and attended to our needs. Most dives were drift style and were not suitable for less experienced divers. The boat captain followed the diver’s bubbles and the dive master would deploy a SMB when we were ready to be picked up. That would happen several times every dive due to air consumption differences between divers. We are Nitrox certified divers like most of our group, but we all declined it due to the high cost of each tank, very disappointing. We saw turtles on most dives several large Green and Loggerheads came by. Sharks were numerous and smaller fish life abundant. We did several dives with numerous swim thru’s that required good lights so make sure to bring them with you. The resort was clean and food was pretty good, we also had free drinks as an added bonus. Now for the bad. We had purchased new dive gear this year replacing ours after 18 years of use. At the end of the week we both were experiencing issues with our integrated seconds leaking during our dives. When we got home and had our new gear checked out. We found out that we had contaminated air and our regulators had to be rebuilt looking at the condition we were lucky to have not fell ill. We had one member of our group that had gotten sick on the trip not sure if his illness was related to the bad air in our tanks. We checked with others in our dive group and several had to get there gear serviced as well.
Websites	Dive with Martin
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Little Cayman, Roatan, Keys, Bonaire, Turks and Caicos, Cozumel, Curacao, Panama city beach, Clear Water and Tortola.
Closest Airport	ATL	Getting There	None
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy, rainy, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-83°F / 28-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-80 Ft/ 18-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay with group don't touch animals
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
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		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	I used a GoPro still pictures were tough.

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By Ryan Black in MI, US at Nov 23, 2021 13:54 EST

Very scary re: bad air. What were the contaminates? How did Dive With Martin respond when you raised the issue with them? Seems like they should be willing to give you some compensation if it was their air that damaged your gear. Makes me all the more very curious what the contaminate was -- if it is able to generate leaks in your hoses, I can only imagine what it was doing to your lungs...!

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Dive Review of Dive with Martin/Hotel Cozumel in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

Dive with Martin/Hotel Cozumel: "Good diving with mix of drift and swim thru's and contaminated gear", May, 2021,

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Dive Review of Dive with Martin/Hotel Cozumel in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan