Jerry_G

Scubas

What Bruce-R said is exactly what I would recommend. Dive the Cenotes. Make sure you wear at least a 3mm full wet suit. The water temp is 72 F year around and you can cramp up on the second dive. The cenote's that most of the ops dive are down in the Tulum area and involve about a 30-45 minute car ride including an off road ride into the jungle. Do a google search on Dos Ojos, Tajmahal, or Angelita and you will get a good idea of what they are. By the way Angelita is a unique dive in that it is deep(most cenotes are about 30 feet deep) and you enter a sulphur layer at about 100 feet. Look it up and you'll see pictures. I've spent weeks diving the the Cozumel, Playa Del Carmen area(PDC). I usually stay in PDC. While there are a lot of great dive ops in PDC I've always dove with Sealife Divers(www.sealifedivers.com). If you dock in PDC and not Coz the dive shop is about a 1/4 mile north of the dock on the beach. Good luck and whether you dive reefs of caverns you certainly going to have a great time in PDC.

I like to book my own whenever I can, but I am conscious of arrival and departure time, as well as whether the boat is tendered or docked. If you are going to book on your own them make sure you can complete the dives and be back to the boat on time. When you make the reservation be sure to tell the dive op that you are coming off a cruise ship and when you need to be back. Make sure that ship time is the same as the local time. I have a time threshhold that I adhere to. The dive op must make a commitment to have me back 1 hour and 30 minutes prior to departure or I book the ships excursion. I have actually just barely made it back to the ship using my 1hour and 30 minute time. The dive boat had engine problems and we had to be towed in.