Dive Review of Sea Ventures Dive Copamarina/Copamarina in
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Sea Ventures Dive Copamarina/Copamarina, Mar, 2005, by Bruce Wallace, IN, USA . Report 1587.
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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	Copamarina Resort dive package is excellent for value. Rooms were very clean with daily maid service. Rooms have rear door walkout to beach, dive shop and pier (very handy for wet stuff). Food quality is very good, but a little pricey for full meals. We ate lunch/dinner at locals just a few Km from the resport. Sea Ventures dive operation has excellent staff, very attentive, outstanding safety and site briefs using colored maps. Dive profiles are open once the DM's have dove once with you. The DM's take you to all the critter sites for UWP. Bill, Tony and Shawna are all well versed on the Wall, Fallen Rock, Aquarium, Pozas, etc. Location has every UW geography available in the Carribean. Coral gardens are in excellent condition with wide variety of color. BLACK CORAL prolific at 60' and down the wall to rec limits. Wall construction varies from 45 degree slopes with ledges at 90 to 120 feet, to 90 degree slope with no ledges. Fish life on reef dives includes most of the Book on Reef Fish. UWP opportunities abound with excellent visibility at 60 to 100 feet on reef. Macro is great as the area is not well dived and most fish do not seem too skitterish. Water temp was never under 80 degrees and at 130 feet the temp was still at 80 degrees. Special thrill was Humpback whales presence one day - heard songs throughout both dives and observed 22 separate breeching whales off port side of dive boat during surface interval. In 30 years of diving, I have never heard or seen humpback whales, let alone an entire pod. Overall, the week was a "6" on a scale of 1 to 5.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman, Florida, Guadeloupe, St. Thomas/John and Vietnam
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, surge
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	60-150 Ft/ 18-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	One observation dive to 120' with DM, all other dives own profile with stay in sight of group's bubbles request, 1500# signal to DM, multi-level profiles OK, start ascent at 600# from 60 feet, minimum 3 minute safety stop enforced.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	>2
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
UW Photo Comments	Rental cameras available, no film developing on site, computer available for download and disc burn, rinse bucket for cameras ONLY on board, Captain did 2004 Rodales Photo Shoot and has extremely good suggestions for UWP locations to see critters.

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Dive Review of Sea Ventures Dive Copamarina/Copamarina in Puerto Rico/Guanica

Sea Ventures Dive Copamarina/Copamarina, Mar, 2005,

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Dive Review of Sea Ventures Dive Copamarina/Copamarina in
Puerto Rico/Guanica