Dive Review of Living Underwater/Playa Azul in
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Living Underwater/Playa Azul: "Best Diving in Cozumel", Nov, 2019, by Matt Radtke, CO, US ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 11352.
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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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Comments	We have been diving in Cozumel since 2005. Since Jeremy and the Living Underwater team run such a fantastic operation, we try to visit at least once a year and the diving never disappoints. Living Underwater’s boat, The Jew Fish, holds a maximum of eight divers plus the crew: Captain Andreas, first mate Ricardo, and dive master Pepe or Lydia, all of whom are excellent. Depending on where you’re staying, pickup is usually at your hotel dock or the town pier, after which The Jew Fish’s twin 125 HP outboards will get you quickly to your first dive site of the morning. During our most recent trip, the southern part of the marine park was closed to all underwater activities. The intent is to allow the heavily visited Palancar and Columbia reefs to “rest”, and also to allow scientists to study the disease that is affecting certain types of coral. While we very much enjoy diving those areas, other sites like Dalila, La Francesa, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Tormentos, and Tunich provided plenty of great diving for the week. We saw everything from tiny Painted Elysia, Lettuce Leaf sea slugs, and several types of cleaner shrimp to huge Hawksbill and Loggerhead turtles, nurse sharks, six-foot green morays, and a couple of Spotted Eagle Rays. In between those size extremes, we encountered all the sea life that is so common to the Cozumel reefs including hundreds of lobsters, large angelfish, splendid toadfish, many varieties of crabs, mantis shrimp, jaw fish, and many others. Both Lydia and Pepe are great dive masters who are very focused on keeping their customers happy. They make sure to point out the treasures that they find to everyone in the group, identify unknown critters using an underwater slate, and go slowly enough to allow the photographers and videographers plenty of time to capture footage. Since a 100cf tank will last me “only” 60-70 minutes on a typical dive, both Pepe and Lydia offered to stay down for an extra 10-15 minutes with my much more air-efficient wife/dive buddy. It’s easy to see why Living Underwater has such a loyal following and so many repeat customers.
Websites	Living Underwater Playa Azul
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Eygpt, Galapagos, Carribean, Indonesia, Palau, Mexico
Closest Airport	CZM	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	currents
Water Temp	82-°F / 28-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Since all diving in Cozumel is drift diving, divers need to stay in contact with the DM and group.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Fresh water rinse tank on the boat.

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Dive Review of Living Underwater/Playa Azul in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel

Living Underwater/Playa Azul: "Best Diving in Cozumel", Nov, 2019,

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Dive Review of Living Underwater/Playa Azul in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Cozumel