March 2001

Vol. 16, No. 3     What's this?

Having a Bad Day, Aquaworld?

from the March, 2001 issue of Undercurrent  

On the morning of January 27, an Aquaworld boat in Cozumel dropped off a group of cruise ship divers to explore the sunken plane in front of the Le Ceiba Hotel, and then returned to their dock about 200 yards away. The dive group surfaced to find the current moving them toward the cruise ship pier, and no boat in sight. They were pulled into the La Ceiba pier by a pair of nearby DMs, who called AquaWorld to inform them.

That same afternoon, a dive boat from another shop heading to the Palancar area came across two divers floating on the surface, at least a quarter of a mile from the next nearest craft. These AquaWorld customers were picked up and returned to their boat, which apparently had been searching for them some distance away.