Another question about dive operators in Cozumel!

> The ONLY reason I don't dive with DP much is my dislike of
> having to go to THEIR piers, rather than step across the
> street from my hotel to the former Pro Dive pier or the
> present Aldora Pier to board the dive boat.
>
> -- Bob.
>

They pick up at many hotel docks such as Las Brisas (or whatever it is
called this year).

Dr Yak wrote:
> > The ONLY reason I don't dive with DP much is my dislike of
> > having to go to THEIR piers, rather than step across the
> > street from my hotel to the former Pro Dive pier or the
> > present Aldora Pier to board the dive boat.
> >
> > -- Bob.
> >
>
> They pick up at many hotel docks such as Las Brisas (or whatever it is
> called this year).

That is true. They pick up at SOME hotels SOUTH of the Barracuda
Hotel pier.

The hotel in which *I* stay (in fact the same ROOM every time)
since 1995 is the Large Penthouse Suite overlooking both the
Pro Dive Pier and the Aldora Pier.

I wouldn't trade the room if someone offered me to stay in any
other room in ANY hotel in Cozumel without paying extra!


That's why I could see ALL of the dive shops that pick up there,
WHEN they come, how many boats they use, etc., etc.

In many of the past flamewars I had with Aldora and other IDIOTS
(such as CPR86 <G>) were based on the fact they were all
speculating what went on while I was WATCHING what went on.

Some years ago, when I had the spare time to watch, I actually
recorded all the different color TANKS used by different dive
shops.

That's how DMs can tell which group and how many groups are
UW at the same time at the same site! By looking at the
color of the marking on TANKS when they couldn't tell one
diver from another when the groups cross, sometimes 2 and 3
at a time.

-- Bob.

Reef Fish wrote:

> That's why I could see ALL of the dive shops that pick up there,
> WHEN they come, how many boats they use, etc., etc.
>
> In many of the past flamewars I had with Aldora and other IDIOTS
> (such as CPR86 <G>) were based on the fact they were all
> speculating what went on while I was WATCHING what went on.
>
> Some years ago, when I had the spare time to watch, I actually
> recorded all the different color TANKS used by different dive
> shops.

It was only SEVEN years ago. The post below featured BOTH
CPR86 posing himself as an expert about Aldora a month after his
first trip; and also my mention of color or tanks!

http://tinyurl.com/c36uv

RF> That's how I know Aldora tanks are unloaded and loaded there --
RF> easy to see -- steel tanks with light blue ring on top.
RF> I also know the COLOR markings of the tanks of most of the
RF> dive shops that start from the Pro Dive Pier! Scuba Du:
RF> Yellow top; Blue Bubbles: wine-red top; Black Shark; purple
RF> top; Chinos: white on dark blue top; Cozumel Equalizer:
RF> dark green top; etc., etc.

-- Bob.