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Dive Review of Diving Adventures/Villablanca in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

Diving Adventures/Villablanca, Mar, 2003,

by Ron Benjamin, WI, USA . Report 394.

No photos available at this time

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Accommodations 3 stars Food 3 stars
Service and Attitude 3 stars Environmental Sensitivity N/A
Dive Operation 4 stars Shore Diving 4 stars
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ N/A
Beginners 4 stars
Advanced 4 stars
Comments This was our seventh trip to cozumel. We have watched the island change because of tourism and crewships. Many of the eating establishments have begun to cater more to the crewship crowd. It's harder to have a laid back vacation.

The diving this trip was excellent. The guys at Diving Adventures especially Rosendo our divemaster and Gato our captain took very good care of us. We found a group of excellent experienced divers and the five of us pretty much dove where weather and conditions would let us.

One of the highlights of our dives were San Juan/Barracuda. Rosendo our divemaster told us he could take us to a place to hopefully see a school of eagle rays. He was correct. We dove this site twice and saw eight to ten on the first dive and we sat on the sand in a notch in the reef on the second dive and had the school of eagle rays swim around us for about 18 minutes.

We also saw several hawksbill turtles over the week of diving. Overall we were very pleased.

Villablanca was a nice place. Very laid back. Service was good and the price was right.

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 501-1000 dives
Where else diving Malaysia, Indonesia, Belize, Florida, Wisconsin
Closest Airport Getting There

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny, windy, dry Seas choppy
Water Temp 78-83°F / 26-28°C Wetsuit Thickness 0
Water Visibility 75-150 Ft/ 23-46 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile no
Enforced diving restrictions 130 ft max depth must stay in no decompression limits
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

Sharks 1 or 2 Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles > 2 Whales None
Corals 4 stars Tropical Fish 4 stars
Small Critters 4 stars Large Fish 4 stars
Large Pelagics 4 stars

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subject Matter N/A Boat Facilities N/A
Overall rating for UWP's N/A Shore Facilities N/A
UW Photo Comments [None]
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