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    Which Cancun dive operation for open water referral dive?

    My 12 year old has completed her scuba class and is planning to complete her open water certification in Cancun. Any recommendations for a competent, quality dive operation would be appreciated. My wife and I are also planning to dive while our daughter is completing her open water cert. TIA.

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    Alvaro from AlwaysDiving.com. He's patient, calm, and I've seen him get two people (my wife Sue and our friend Kim) past their fears and doing great.
    Kim has done OW with him. Sue has done OW and AOW. I've done OW, AOW and Rescue. All with Alvaro. And all done with eLearning referrals.
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    Hello From Cancun
    We provide PADI and Universal Referrals. Since she has completed her class, we can provide the 4 required dives. As you know, kids ages and diving, 12 year old can dive down to 60ft. The first 2 dives are done shallow, 33ft with a descent line. Dives 3 and 4 depending on how we all feel she has done and her comfort level, we may go to 55ft. coral reefs.
    If you require more info please shoot me an email or a PM.
    The service is private, meaning an instructor will take your family diving, we may have other divers on board with their dive masters or instructors.

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    Hello Blue sky buckeye, my name is Alvaro Gonzalez, I´m an scuba diving instructor, I´ve been teaching scuba diving and conducting groups of divers in this area of Mexico for over 32 years, I run AlwaysDiving www.alwaysdiving.com which is located at Embarcadero Caribbean Carnival at the hotel zone of Cancun, we never take more than six diver at the time and if someone needs an special attention we provide it (No extra charge) I believe in make friends not customers, I´ll be more than glad to take care of you and your family for your dives.
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    Does any one have any thoughts on diving through Scorpio? Should I be concerned that they are not an official PADI shop?
    Last edited by lost4566; January 25th, 2012 at 01:07 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost4566 View Post
    does any one have any thoughts on diving through scorpio? Should i be concerned that they are not an official padi shop?
    this has been discussed on another thread, and it has been verified, to be able to certify any padi dive course, all they need is a padi instructor on staff, no need to be a padi center if the instructor is an "official" current teaching status padi instructor if you find the thread, it has verification from padi
    hope this info helps

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