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CozumelWorld Class Marine Park drift diving, renown cuisine and great hospitality. The island with a Mexican heart and a Caribbean soul! You’ve seen the Corona commercials, come experience the reality.
We just experienced, first hand, what everyone on Scuba Board has been raving about with Blue XT Sea in Cozumel.
Our stay was a week. We did 20 dives, which included two night dives. Mago was our Boat Captain for four of the twenty dives. Blanca was our Divemaster for two of the twenty dives. Our main exposure to Blue XT Sea Staff was with Adan (Boat Captain) and Arturo (Divemaster) for the remaining dives. Their performance was simply outstanding. Adan had the opportunity to display his navigation skills after our last night dive. One of the divers inadvertently came aboard without his light which was discovered missing after we were already 10 minutes away from our exit point. Adan maneuvered a gentle 360 degree turn and headed back into the dark abyss of the night-time Caribbean. He went directly back to our exit point, there was no searching; Adan went exactly to our exit point! Arturo geared-up and in less than 5 minutes was back on the boat with the wayward light.
Arturo has a knack for finding the small to downright tiny critters, so much so that he dives with a small magnifying glass to display his finds. We discovered tiny critters ( pipefish & nudibranchs etc) never before noticed diving. His briefings were always easy to understand and his dive plan logical and easy to follow. Unlike other complaints on Cozumel dive operations, you get to dive your Computer with Blue XT Sea; you stay down as long as you have air and are within non-deco limits.
Initially we turned up our noses at Blue XT Sea’s suggestion of diving Nitrox on the second dives. However their wisdom prevailed, with our compressed diving schedule the Nitrox kept us well within non-deco limits on repetitive diving. Something we should have known but were very thankful for their gentle persuasion to recall.
Others have addressed Blue XT Sea’s policy of handling dive gear. They always had the gear assembled upon arriving at the dock to pick us up for the days, afternoons or evenings dives. While not always a policy we are comfortable with (we very much like to assemble our own gear) their professionalism soon out-weighed any anxiety we had in allowing others to set up our dive gear for us.
All of our surface intervals were conducted ashore. They have fruit, juice and plenty of water available. Jackets are available for warming between extended bottom times, and fresh towels after the dives. They did have a fresh-water bucket for our underwater cameras. And if you desire, they even have a fresh-water rinse for your head after each dive.
Blue XT Sea is a 6-pack operation. Consequently we would pass virtually every other dive boat leaving San Miguel on our way to the dive site. Some of the Cozumel operations have tons of divers aboard, so it was always a welcome relief to be well on our way through the dive site before they off-loaded their cargo of divers.
It would be hard to imagine a circumstance where Dive XT Sea would fall short of meeting ALL of your expectations of a Dive Operator.
These 4 members have said "Thank you." to stcroix2 for this useful post:
stcroix2, Arturo is a class act . Christi is an astute business women to have assembled such a fine group of professionals' to help her. I have been diving w/ Arturo for about 8yrs. now & hope to be able to match his SAC rate sometime before I die. The entire crew are just a good bunch of people. BOSCO
I only got in 1 day with Arturo and then he was gone to Mexico City on vacation so I really didn't get a chance to get to know him. Adan and Mago alternated each day so I did spend enough time with him to also praise his abilities, and he's a very nice guy to boot.
For those who don't know the entire story Christi pretty much guarantees the boat will go out every day, as long as at least one diver has booked a trip, so during the off season a pre booked dive trip won't leave you on the dock because no one else booked that day. The reverse is that in busy times of year those seats pre book fast, so if you know your dates and are interested lock the deal with the deposit.
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