Category: Cozumel

Weekend of diving on Cozumel’s East Side with Aldora Divers

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Me and Annie hopped down to Cozumel for a long Columbus Day weekend to do some diving and lionfish hunting in Cozumel with Aldora Divers.   Because it was such a short trip I didn’t bother bringing my rebreather.  Back to single-tank open circuit for me I guess. 🙁     Even still that’s one of the primary reasons I like diving with Aldora.  With access to steel HP120s and HP100s (+ nitrox) and an experienced group of divers you can get some LONG single tank dives in. For 3…

How they “fix” split fins in Mexico

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I was looking through some old photos from a few years ago in Cozumel and stumbled across these gems.  One of the instructors I met, actually he might have been a DM, I don’t really remember..  Anyway, he wasn’t very happy with his split fins so he simply went to a local cobbler and had them sew a piece of rubber onto his fins to “unsplit” his split fins. I simply title this masterpiece “How they fix split fins in Mexico” or “Fixing split fins.”      Just another great…

Caustic kitty litter: Bringing your rebreather to Cozumel redux

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I decided to bring my rebreather down to Cozumel again since I was going to be there a month and wanted to get some deeper dives in. You can see my August trip report for more thorough information. As per usual I brought my rebreather on the plane as carry-on. I dive a rEvo II Mini which is about as travel friendly as any 45lb rebreather can be. After removing the tanks and stand I wrapped the entire unit in a grill cover to make unit look like a backpack…

Bringing your rebreather to Cozumel

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As someone who just recently switched to a rebreather this year I had not had the opportunity to fly on a plane with mine yet although I’ve taken it on plenty of other trips that involved driving. Nevertheless I decided to bring my rebreather down to Cozumel for this trip to see how much of a pain it would be since I frequently visit Cozumel 4-5 times a year. I wanted to see if it is worth lugging down for most trips. This will be a long post so I…