ironworker377
Registered
Just got back from Cancun and I dove with M.A.D. Very glad I took your guys advice and dived with them. They just happened to be set-up next door at the Royal Islander.
First Day was pretty bad for me as I was not ready for the swells and ended up getting real sick and even threw-up underwater
Not a fun day.
Second day I was picked up by the very hot DM Maricela. Took plenty on meds to fight the sea sickness on this day. Arrive at the dock and realize that only two of us are going to have the boat to ourselves. How often would any other dive operation do something like that? We went to the Grampin site and seen lots of life down there and seen my first shark (nurse shark). I surfaced by myself after 50 mins due to the other guy having good airtime and came up about 100 yards from Isidro. He did not see me right away so I busted out my SMB and my whistle. Surprised during all my dives nobody really carry's an SMB and whistles with their own set-ups. I guess I looked weird to them with all my gear attached to my plate set-up. All in all I would say it was a good day.
Third day Alvaro took us out to Chac Mool Cenote. We where the first ones there and and had other groups show up after us. When we hit the the water there where 3 groups getting ready. When we finished and came back to the truck 2 of the groups where already drying off and setting up for the next dive. Alvaro was a great DM and tries to get the most out of the dive and told us most ops only keep you down for 30-40 mins max no matter how much air you have. We where down for 52 mins and came up a very little over a 3rd of the tank (1100 psi) like he says is the standard for cave diving. Cenotes are really something to dive at least once in your lifetime. Second dive was pretty interesting since the other diver followed the wrong group and turned left instead of right. Alvaro told me to wait where I was since I was close to the surface and he went to search for the lost diver. He found him right away since it was pretty obvious since we noticed him missing after we crossed the other group. We surfaced right after that with 40 mins of dive time.
Fourth day we was the wreck dive and was lead by Ben. We seen a grouper that had to be at least 4-5' big. We penetrated the wreck and that was something different for me since I never did something like that. That was a good dive. Second dive was the best dive of my trip in terms of life. Seen a nurse shark, moray eel, and a turtle feeding at the bottom and some of the biggest and most colorful parrot fish (at least 2') I have ever seen. Man you can totally hear those guys chewing up the coral.
Overall I really enjoyed my whole trip and will be going to dive with MAD again. I did notice on the other boats they had 10 or more divers on them and glad I dove with a boat with 2 and 5 instead of the 10+. Plus the MAD boat did look nicer then some of the ones I seen and it had way more shade then the others.
First Day was pretty bad for me as I was not ready for the swells and ended up getting real sick and even threw-up underwater
Not a fun day.Second day I was picked up by the very hot DM Maricela. Took plenty on meds to fight the sea sickness on this day. Arrive at the dock and realize that only two of us are going to have the boat to ourselves. How often would any other dive operation do something like that? We went to the Grampin site and seen lots of life down there and seen my first shark (nurse shark). I surfaced by myself after 50 mins due to the other guy having good airtime and came up about 100 yards from Isidro. He did not see me right away so I busted out my SMB and my whistle. Surprised during all my dives nobody really carry's an SMB and whistles with their own set-ups. I guess I looked weird to them with all my gear attached to my plate set-up. All in all I would say it was a good day.
Third day Alvaro took us out to Chac Mool Cenote. We where the first ones there and and had other groups show up after us. When we hit the the water there where 3 groups getting ready. When we finished and came back to the truck 2 of the groups where already drying off and setting up for the next dive. Alvaro was a great DM and tries to get the most out of the dive and told us most ops only keep you down for 30-40 mins max no matter how much air you have. We where down for 52 mins and came up a very little over a 3rd of the tank (1100 psi) like he says is the standard for cave diving. Cenotes are really something to dive at least once in your lifetime. Second dive was pretty interesting since the other diver followed the wrong group and turned left instead of right. Alvaro told me to wait where I was since I was close to the surface and he went to search for the lost diver. He found him right away since it was pretty obvious since we noticed him missing after we crossed the other group. We surfaced right after that with 40 mins of dive time.
Fourth day we was the wreck dive and was lead by Ben. We seen a grouper that had to be at least 4-5' big. We penetrated the wreck and that was something different for me since I never did something like that. That was a good dive. Second dive was the best dive of my trip in terms of life. Seen a nurse shark, moray eel, and a turtle feeding at the bottom and some of the biggest and most colorful parrot fish (at least 2') I have ever seen. Man you can totally hear those guys chewing up the coral.
Overall I really enjoyed my whole trip and will be going to dive with MAD again. I did notice on the other boats they had 10 or more divers on them and glad I dove with a boat with 2 and 5 instead of the 10+. Plus the MAD boat did look nicer then some of the ones I seen and it had way more shade then the others.
