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Old June 27th, 2011, 05:46 PM posted to rec.travel.cruises,rec.scuba.locations
Tim McDonough
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Default Mazatlan & diving

Wayne Dernoncourt writes:

My in-laws have a timeshare in Mazatlan and they've invited us to stay
for about a week with them. Valerie wants to go diving. Marilyn says
that Mazatlan is safe and from what I've been able to find out on the
web, as long as you don't go looking for trouble, we'll be fine.

Any recommendations for a dive operator?

BTW, UNEXSO in Freeport was terrific.


My wife and I did a Panama Canal cruise over Xmas/NY 2009-2010 and I worked
to make us scuba diving reservation in most of the ports of call. Mazatlan
was one of those ports. The reservation I made were via:

* Mazatlan, Mexico (January 5th)
http://www.mazatlantours.org/mazatlan-scuba-diving.htm

which is basically the dive shop with the El Cid Castilla. You can see some
of our scuba/underater pictures at the beginning of the album
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1079452642295.10324.1705670572&l=c920ca5c5c

FWIW, I wouldn't recommend diving in Mazatlan. As I wrote in the album:

"Before the cruise I had been in contact with Mazatlan Tours
http://www.mazatlantours.org/mazatlan-scuba-diving.htm and they convinced
me that due to the poor diving condition in Mazatlan that I should just
pre-pay for one tank dives and if we wanted a second we could arrange that on
site. As it turned out, after one (long and cool) dive we'd seen enough.
Why is it that when the DM wears gloves everything underwater looks like
something to be touched? Goes counter to the saying "Take only pictures,
leave only bubbles" if you ask me..."

The details of our single dive:
Eagle's Head, Mazatlan, Mexico - water temp of 73F - 67 minutes of bottom
time - 36 feet max depth

I wish I had better news to report, but sadly Mazatlan just isn't a place
known for its diving (shallow and murky)...

-Tim