Dive Review of ProDive/Sunscape Puerto Aventuras in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Riviera Maya

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ProDive/Sunscape Puerto Aventuras, Sep, 2006, by Dr. Michael Pangelinan, CA, USA . Report 2824.
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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	Got to snorkel with whale sharks!!! Stein with Prodive at Puerto Aventuras is an excellent and well informed guide. Amazing experience! Visit the Riviera Maya or Cozumel between mid-June to mid-August and they guarantee whale shark encounters at Isla Holbox. Grueling trip to the feeding grounds but well worth it! Dove the cenotes and Puerto Aventuras and Playa del Carmen reefs this trip. Tons of turtles and barracudas at the sites appropriately named Tortugas and Barracudas. Got to see a school of HUGE trevally parolling the reef. Morays, lobsters, crabs, rays...no sharks though. Winter is better for seeing bull sharks cruising the reefs. Prodive is a very well run operation. On some dives it was just me and the DM (Nauell-sorry to botch up his name but also excellent DM)so we dove my profile...nearly 60 minutes on some dive. Prodive does not have a mixer or air at the resort so Nitrox was $15 extra PER tank! Not worth it. The cenotes dives were cool and well led. Prodive provided primary lights for every diver and our guide Mariana was excellent. Prodive is an EXCELLENT resort for beginners. Good if limited for intermediate divers. (Aquanauts in Puerto Aventuras is the appropriate choice for more advanced divers.) ALL of the DM's and the entire support staff at Prodive was very good. Had an alarming 25 minute surface interval (literally) when we had to abort a dive due to one diver's malfunctioning reg. The boat went to drop off a group doing their open water check out dives. We drifted South at a pretty good clip on the surface before the boat came back for us. The guys must have been playing cards or fishing but the DM was furious and rightly so. A dive accident would have required immediate transport and a lot of bad things could have happened on the surface in 25 minutes. The incident was reported to management and the 4 of us were issued credits for the missed dive. The DM also helped clear the reg of sand in the shop but offered a rental reg to the diver at no charge. Excellent operation except for that one mishap.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Palawan Island, Philippines; Fiji; Palau; Saipan; Guam; California
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-120 Ft/ 18-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	40minute dive time during the briefings but most group dives went 50 minutes. I dove with just the DM on a few dives and got to dive my profile...nearly an hour!
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	> 2
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	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Not truly geared for UWP's. The boat crews did hand down the cameras.

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Dive Review of ProDive/Sunscape Puerto Aventuras in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Riviera Maya

ProDive/Sunscape Puerto Aventuras, Sep, 2006,

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Dive Review of ProDive/Sunscape Puerto Aventuras in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan/Riviera Maya