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Living Underwater/Hotel Barracuda in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan in
2002/08

by
Clem Clapp, AL, US
Report Number 198

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N/A means "Not Applicable" or "No Answer" given

Reporter
Dive Experience
101-250 dives
Where else diving
  

Dive Conditions

Weather
sunny  
Seas
calm,currents  
Water Temp
83   to 84    ° Fahrenheit  
Wetsuit Thickness
1
Water Visibility
70   to 100    Feet  
 
Dive Policy
Dive own profile
yes  
 
Enforced diving restrictions  
Let DM know when at 300lbs  
What I saw
Sharks
1 or 2 
Mantas
None 
Dolphins
None 
Whale Sharks
None 
Turtles
1 or 2 
Whales
None 
Ratings 1 (worst)- 5 (best):
Corals
  ****
Tropical Fish
****  
Small Critters
  ****
Large Fish
**  
Large Pelagics
  *
 
 
Underwater Photography  1 (worst)- 5 (best):
Subject Matter
****  
Boat Facilities
****
Overall rating for UWP's  
***  
Shore Facilities  
***  
Comments
[None]  
Ratings and Overall Comments  1 (worst)- 5 (best):
Accommodations
***
Food
***
Service and Attitude
***
Environmental Sensitivity  
N/A
Dive Operation
****  
Shore Diving  
***  
Snorkeling
N/A  
 
 

Overall Rating

Value for $$
N/A    
Beginners
***   
Advanced
****    
Comments  
Good Dive Operation. Liked those 120lb low-pressure steel tank. Got an hour
plus on all dives. The small, covered, fast (twin 150 hp outboards) got the
pack to the site or pier as fast as you wanted.
Nice restaurant for the surface interval.Good divemasters. Owner was very
flexible on our dive trip changes. Boat did not have camera rinse tanks.
Hotel Barracuda was a clean & adequate facility. The restaurant was
not open at all for the first 3 days.  Desk staff could only shrug when
asked why it was not open. The hotel was convenient to other places to eat
as well as the downtown area without being too close.  The onsite dive op,
Dive Paradise, was not open to discussing dive information when they found
out that we were diving with another shop.  Kinda silly, IMHO.  They were,
however, agreeable to renting us tanks for a shore dive at the hotel.
 

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