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REVIEW OF THINGS TO DO
from the blog entry Cabo by FreqTravelers
Review of Underwater Diversions Dive Center,
a thing to do in
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Date of experience: Nov 06 '07 Author: FreqTravelers |
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“Friendly Guides” |
We set up our dive through the cruiseline. This company met us once we got off the ship and took us to their shop to get our gear. We had filled out a form prior and most of our gear was out waiting for us. We tried everything on and the guides piled everything up and carted it out to the dive boat.
There were 8 divers and 2 guides on the trip. The first dive, the guides divided us into 2 groups of 4. We chose to go with some other beginners as this was our first dive below 60ft. We were going to try to make it to the underwater sandfalls. We had a little trouble getting started as one of the divers in our group decided she wasn't comfortable with ocean diving. The guide took her back to the boat. In the meantime, we descended and waited on the sandy bottom for our guide. As we were waiting, we saw a school of manta rays swim by. They weren't all that close, but it was an AMAZING site!
Once the guide arrived, we swam around and enjoyed the scenery. I noticed my depth gauge said 100 ft. I started to panic a little, because we weren't supposed to go past 90 ft. I got Mike's attention and he showed me his gauge and we were only at about 60 ft. So, my gauge was broken, which I didn't like. We did get to 90 ft. The temperature felt nice, in the upper 60s, low 70s. We were wearing full wet suits (tank style on top) with shorties over them. We knew we'd get colder on the second dive, based on previous experience. We also saw a sea turtle sitting on the bottom and lots and lots of fish.
We had a surface interval of about an hour. They drove us around the area and arch.
For our second dive, we joined with the other group. The first guide wanted to spend his time with the newer divers alone. This dive was to about 60ft. We saw a sea turtle and a huge puffer fish.
Good dive guides on this trip. I would dive with them again even though my gauge was broke.
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