Dive Review of Living Underwater/Grand Park Royal in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

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Living Underwater/Grand Park Royal: "Stress Free Diving with Valet Service", Dec, 2022, by Daniel Fazekas, SC, US ( Sr. Reviewer 11 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 12305.
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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 spent 8 days diving in the middle of December 2022. We used Living Underwater 7 times since 2003. We like them because they have a fast boat, they guide a maximum of 8 divers, they are reliable, safety oriented, friendly, and they use Steel tanks. Living U/W handles your gear for the entire week. The night before our first dive, owner Jeremy Anschel meets us, collects our dive gear, and confirms our plans for days diving, Nitrox, and any rental equipment needs. The boat comes the next morning to a dock on our resort property, and the gear is all set up waiting for us. Captain Andres, Crew Ricardo are friendly, attentive, and a step ahead of whatever we needed before and after dives. Dive Master Pepe was wonderful, kind, instructive, knowledgeable, and very good at finding small critters and communicating during the dive. Dive boat is twin outboard with canopy to shade the divers, but no head. Entry was a back roll off the side, and exit was a ladder on the side. Dive profile was not strict other than maximum depth. I used Steel 95 and my wife used Steel 85. We used Nitrox EAN 32. Typical dive was 70 feet max, 40 feet avg, 80 minutes. Slight current on most dives, managed by staying below the reef tops. Many dives included swim throughs between coral pillars. Coral and sponges were colorful and healthy, and juvenile reef fish were abundant. Conditions were mostly sunny and light breeze, which helped the bottom visibility. Amazing to get close to hawksbill turtles, eagle rays and sting rays. Surface interval was spent on the boat if the conditions were calm, usually in shallow water above a sandy bottom. If conditions are rough, the surface interval is at one of the beach resorts. At the end of each dive day, we confirm our next dive day, and we step off the boat. Living U/W will rinse and clean our gear and have it dry and ready to dive the next morning. We highly recommend Living Water for intermediate and advanced divers. In my opinion, beginner divers should have some experience with current and drift dives, however, Living Underwater would be very accommodating to them
Websites	Living Underwater Grand Park Royal
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Exuma Cays Bahamas, Belize, Bonaire, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Florida Keys, Roatan, Kona, St. Croix, British Virgin Islands, Tahiti
Closest Airport	Cozumel	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-83°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	80-120 Ft/ 24-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive briefing included recommended maximum depth, as long as you observe your own limit for No Deco, 5 minute safety stop between 20 and 15 feet. On drift dives, do not get too far ahead of the divemaster.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	We did not use UWP, but there is fresh water bucket to rinse camera.

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Dive Review of Living Underwater/Grand Park Royal in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

Living Underwater/Grand Park Royal: "Stress Free Diving with Valet Service", Dec, 2022,

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Dive Review of Living Underwater/Grand Park Royal in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan