Dive Review of MV Sea Escape in
Mexico (Western)/Guadalupe Island

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MV Sea Escape: "Great Whites at Guadalupe", Sep, 2017, by Mark Tarczynski, CA, US ( 2 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 9810.
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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
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	The Good: Lots of Great White Sharks (the only thing that really mattered). Food was edible. Crew was helpful and the Divemaster, Benjamin, was pretty cool. Good vis. Sharks came close. Nailed some pretty cool pics. Pretty happy. The Bad: OMG this boat is filthy. Every night the bottoms of my feet were black ... like I had been walking around in black mud. Do they EVER hose down the decks of this boat? Safety? Well ... let's put it this way ... the door from the dive deck to the salon, on pretty much every liveaboard I've been on, is a steel bulkhead door that seals against water intrusion in case of a catastrophe. In the case of the Sea Escape, the doors are standard issue residential doors that looked like they were purchased from the local hardware store. I am not kidding! The doors seal against nothing! Commentary: If you are the hearty, uber-macho, California diver type, who likes to spearfish, or drop below 300 feet on tri-mix gas, all of my issues with Sea Escape probably won't matter to you. Most California dive boats are pretty rugged and a lot of California divers are accustomed to an operation like this one. But if safety, and a "clean" operation are important, I would recommend a different liveaboard operation.
Websites	MV Sea Escape
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All over the Caribbean, Indonesia, Mexico ... and I did my check-out dive in 1971 in an old rock quarry in Racine Wisconsin in the middle of March ... dry suits weren't invented yet. Oh yeah ... and I was using a J-valve.
Closest Airport	San Diego	Getting There	Fly into San Diego, get picked up at your hotel, drive over the Mexican border to Ensenada and board the boat.
Dive Conditions
Weather	dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	73-78°F / 23-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	7
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	This is cage diving on a hookah.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	1 or 2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals	N/A	Tropical Fish	N/A
Small Critters	N/A	Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Lots of outlets for charging located inside the salon area. Camera table space is adequate.

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Dive Review of MV Sea Escape in Mexico (Western)/Guadalupe Island

MV Sea Escape: "Great Whites at Guadalupe", Sep, 2017,

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

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Reporter and Travel

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of MV Sea Escape in
Mexico (Western)/Guadalupe Island