Dive Review of East Cape Explorers/N/A in
Mexico (Western)/San Jose del Cabo

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East Cape Explorers/N/A : "A well-run operation offering some unique diving", Dec, 2024, by Robert Herrick, CA, US ( 2 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 13285.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	East Cape Explorers has a shop in the San Jose Del Cabo Marina, and offers dives 6 days per week. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, they offer local diving. We joined them for a Tuesday dive in December. They headed out east initially to dive “Shipwreck”, but the visibility was poor, so they headed west, and dove Escalante and Palmilla instead. While the seas were calm, visibility was not great at either of the sites the day we were there (40 & 60’, respectively). Our guide (and store manager Max) led the dive, and asks all divers to stay within visual range at all times – if you and your buddy lose contact for more than a minute, you are expected to surface to rejoin. The dive leaders dive with GoPros, and share the footage and pictures with all divers at the end of the day for free, which was a nice addition. They do work hard to find interesting stuff for divers. The local diving wasn’t great the day we were there, but Cabo is not generally a diving destination for full dive holidays, so we weren’t expecting anything more, and were just happy to reset the “time since the last dive”, and get back in the water. The big draw for many divers, though, is the Monday / Wednesday / Friday dives to Gordo Banks, where they are the only (?) shop with regular trips there. (Note that to do a Gordo Banks dive, you must first have done a prior day of diving with them at local dive sites) The Monday that we checked in, the divers reported seeing 200 hammerheads per dive schooling over the seamount. In fact, for the first two weeks of December, they’d been lucky on every trip, although activity is unpredictable and cannot be planned on. The dive profile is challenging, though, since you’re diving at 80-100’ in blue water, and can’t see the bottom (which is close to 200’), or the surface, so you’re just trying to stay in position with the divemasters. They charge a reasonable $120 per person for local dives, $195 per person for Gordo Banks dives, and rent full gear for $35 per person per day. I thought they were well-run and would recommend them to those staying in San Jose Del Cabo, or interested in diving the Gordo Banks.
Websites	East Cape Explorers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Solomon Islands, Palau, Cozumel, Bali, Hawaii, Roatan, Little Cayman, Bahamas, Cabo, St. Bart's, Bonaire, California.
Closest Airport	SJD (Cabo)	Getting There	Easy non-stop flights from over a dozen destinations.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	surge
Water Temp	72-73°F / 22-23°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	40-60 Ft/ 12-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Needed to follow the divemasters and stay within visual range at all times, and surface within a minute if you lost contact
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	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	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	No special accommodations available for UWPs, and not popular with UWPs, but good subject matter available on the Gordo Banks Dives. Maybe not worth it most days for local dives.

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Dive Review of East Cape Explorers/N/A in Mexico (Western)/San Jose del Cabo

East Cape Explorers/N/A : "A well-run operation offering some unique diving", Dec, 2024,

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Dive Review of East Cape Explorers/N/A in
Mexico (Western)/San Jose del Cabo