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Reidster

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Making our 5th trip to Cozumel the first week of April.
We are scheduled to arrive before noon on a Saturday and are staying at Scubaclub Cozumel for the 1st time.

Question: Do you think we will be able to get in a shore dive later in the day we arrive? Or do they put restrictions on day-of-arrival diving?

Any other advice to offer us first time SCC guests?
 
There were no restrictions on a day-of-arrival dive when I was last there a few years ago, but then I'm not certain why you think there might be. You might want to contact them directly.
 
Definitely try to dive it the day of arrival to check your gear and yourselves, assuming you are boat diving the next morning. For us since we go in the spring, it's always the first dive in about 8+ months. Then you will also be better prepared for the night shore dives at SCC which are worth the time.
 
Making our 5th trip to Cozumel the first week of April.
We are scheduled to arrive before noon on a Saturday and are staying at Scubaclub Cozumel for the 1st time....do they put restrictions on day-of-arrival diving?
Why would they do something like that?
 
You may have to wait a little while for your room but that will give you time to have lunch and check in with the dive shop and get your weights. You then should have plenty of time for a shore dive and a trip to the market a couple blocks north. When you finish your shore dive, you might as well grab a couple more tanks (need to get them before 5pm) and then you can do a night shore dive also.

Enjoy
 
Some years ago I had to stay AI on Jamaica for a friends wedding. Diving was included. They did everything they could to limit your diving, for instance, the day you arrived, you couldn't "check in" to the dive shop, so you had to wait until the next day. The next day, you could "check in" at the dive shop, but you couldn't dive. Essentially, they made it so you couldn't dive until the third day your were there. And most of the dives were ridiculous. 3 dives during the week, they dumped you off at a site named after one of the DMs. You dove into the shore so that you could haul all the equipment back to the shop so the staff didn't have to move it.

Scuba Club being an AI dive resort could appear to be the same type of operation to the OP? If the OP get's in late morning, that's great. Dive for sure. They resort will be fine with it.
 
We are going the third week of April and our plan is to get to SCC and check in, then go to the Mega (grocery store) to get some snacks and water for our room. After that we will grab some weights/tanks to get our buoyancy checks out of the way for the boat dives the next day. We dive cold water and this will be our first time in Cozumel diving. Somewhere in there we will do lunch then some diving on the house reef hopefully. We are going with our LDS, one of the instructors going is an old time SCC visitor and says that plan is a good way to go.


Hope you have fun down there. Check back in when you get home and let us know how it went.
 
Next month I will be making my 5th trip to Scuba Club.

Once you get checked in at the dive shop, grab a couple of tanks. Always nice to do an equipment and
buoyancy check from the shore, rather than your first boat dive. After a number of trips there, I pretty
well know how much weight I need. Diving cold water with a dry suit for 11 months of the year, I still like
to check and make sure everything is working properly.

I am sure that you will enjoy Scuba Club and all it has to offer.

Divegoose :D
 
Some years ago I had to stay AI on Jamaica for a friends wedding. Diving was included. They did everything they could to limit your diving, for instance, the day you arrived, you couldn't "check in" to the dive shop, so you had to wait until the next day. The next day, you could "check in" at the dive shop, but you couldn't dive. Essentially, they made it so you couldn't dive until the third day your were there. And most of the dives were ridiculous. 3 dives during the week, they dumped you off at a site named after one of the DMs. You dove into the shore so that you could haul all the equipment back to the shop so the staff didn't have to move it.

Scuba Club being an AI dive resort could appear to be the same type of operation to the OP? If the OP get's in late morning, that's great. Dive for sure. They resort will be fine with it.
That place on Jamaica sounds terrible. I've never stayed at SCC, but the way folks rave about it I know that it's very different. If they treated their divers that way no one would stay there.

To the OP: Don't worry, be happy.
 
Yes - the plan would be to test the gear, get waited properly, etc along with getting familiar with the dive site during daylight hours as we will definitely do a night shore dive.

The reason I asked is -We have gone to other destinations where they would not let us dive on the day of arrival.
Thanks for the input!
 
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