Scuba Diving in Cancun

Bijoy Naick wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am going to Cancun in about a week (hopefully no Hurricanes by
> then). I have never gone snorkeing or scuba diving before, so I am
> exicited about it. I will be staying at the Bahia Principe Tulum in
> the Mayan Riviera.

FWIW, and IMO, you should stick to snorkeling, especially if you have
never done that, either.

My advice:
1) Snorkel this trip, get familiar with using a mask, breathing through
a tube, getting around with fins, etc.
2) Go home, get certified by a dive cert agency (PADI, NAUI, PDIC,
etc.).
3) Go back (consider Cozumel) and dive, dive, dive.

Oh, and one diff with cenotes - the water is much colder.

Gordon in Austin

"rwjg40" <identity.available@upon.request> wrote in message
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> Oh, and one diff with cenotes - the water is much colder.

Not really. I dove Cancun in July and the water was an astonishingly cold
74 degrees at 30 feet (whereas Cozumel, on the same trip, was 81 degrees).
The cenotes are only a couple degrees colder than that.

Greg Mossman wrote:
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> "rwjg40" <identity.available@upon.request> wrote in message
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>
> > Oh, and one diff with cenotes - the water is much colder.
>
> Not really. I dove Cancun in July and the water was an astonishingly cold
> 74 degrees at 30 feet (whereas Cozumel, on the same trip, was 81 degrees).
> The cenotes are only a couple degrees colder than that.

Really? I've been swimming in a couple of cenotes near Chichen-Itza,
and the water was pretty cold, much cooler than what I was used to
around Coz.

Gordon in Austin

"rwjg40" <identity.available@upon.request> wrote in message
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> Really? I've been swimming in a couple of cenotes near Chichen-Itza,
> and the water was pretty cold, much cooler than what I was used to
> around Coz.

I thought that Dos Ojos was kept at exactly 72.0 degrees by means of ancient
Mayan magic, but upon Googling for a cite to back this up, I discovered that
others have reported the water temp at 76-77 degrees. Perhaps the magic is
stronger out by Chitzen-Itza than it is near Tulum.

Greg Mossman <mossman@qnet.com> wrote:
>I thought that Dos Ojos was kept at exactly 72.0 degrees by means of ancient
>Mayan magic, but upon Googling for a cite to back this up, I discovered that
>others have reported the water temp at 76-77 degrees. Perhaps the magic is
>stronger out by Chitzen-Itza than it is near Tulum.

The salt water layer at Dos Ojos was pretty warm when I was there. But tricky to
stay in - was weighted for fresh water.

--
Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com

"Jason O'Rourke" <jor@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
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> The salt water layer at Dos Ojos was pretty warm when I was there. But
> tricky to
> stay in - was weighted for fresh water.

I overweight myself for all conditions so I'm never tricked.