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Reef reports, dive-site deep dives, course comparisons and practical island advice.
Cozumel DivingMost standard travel policies either exclude scuba outright or cover it only under a depth ceiling and certification conditions. Dive accident cover is a separate product that pays for chamber treatment and evacuation, not a cancelled trip.
Luisa Carmona · June 22, 2026 · 13 min read
Cozumel DivingCozumel's land side splits into three: the sheltered west coast and San Miguel, the wild undeveloped east coast, and an interior holding San Gervasio and the Punta Sur lagoons. A rental car covers all three in one day.
Luisa Carmona · June 8, 2026 · 17 min read
Courses & TrainingNeither PADI nor SSI is better, and no dive centre anywhere will refuse you for holding the other one. Both meet the same WRSTC standards and neither expires. The differences are materials, cost structure and course sequencing.
Luisa Carmona · May 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Cozumel DivingMost Cozumel diving sits in a mild-to-moderate range where you drift comfortably and can tuck behind a coral head to pause. The northern sites on a strong day are different: you are moving fast enough that stopping is not an option.
Luisa Carmona · May 28, 2026 · 6 min read
Dive SafetyCozumel has two recompression chambers, both hospital-based in San Miguel and both a short drive from the downtown dive piers: the Costamed Hyperbaric Center, a DAN Preferred Provider, and the SSS chamber at Cozumel International Hospital.
Luisa Carmona · May 26, 2026 · 15 min read
Gear & EquipmentA Cozumel dive briefing runs five to ten minutes and covers the site, maximum depth, current direction, entry method, turn pressure, the ascent plan and the lost-diver procedure. It is short because it assumes you already know how to dive.
Luisa Carmona · May 20, 2026 · 16 min read
Marine LifeBull sharks do not live on Cozumel's reefs. They aggregate off Playa del Carmen on the mainland, roughly November through March, in 20 to 27 metres of water, so bull shark season costs you a ferry and a full dive day.
Luisa Carmona · May 10, 2026 · 17 min read
Cozumel DivingUnderwater photos in Cozumel come out blue because seawater strips red by about 5 metres, orange by 10 and yellow by 20. The fix is not a better camera: get within a metre of the subject, then put the red back with a filter or a strobe.
Luisa Carmona · May 6, 2026 · 17 min read
Gear & EquipmentFor Cozumel drift diving you want a large high-contrast display, nitrox and adjustable conservatism; air integration is optional. Picks run from the Cressi Leonardo 2.0 at $249.95 to the Shearwater Perdix 2 at $1,195.
Luisa Carmona · May 4, 2026 · 16 min read
Cozumel DivingA hotel with its own dock saves you a taxi and about half an hour every morning, but you usually pay a per-person fee to walk down it. At a few properties that fee is set high enough to work as a fence around the shop in the lobby.
Luisa Carmona · May 3, 2026 · 17 min read
Cozumel DivingEvery decision about diving on a cruise day is downstream of your all-aboard time. It decides which sites are physically possible, which boat you can be on, and how much slack you have before a delay becomes an expensive afternoon.
Luisa Carmona · April 28, 2026 · 18 min read
Cozumel DivingThe minimum age for scuba diving in Cozumel is 10 years old for any dive in the ocean and 8 for pool-only programmes. Those are PADI and SSI standards rather than local rules, so every shop on the island works to the same numbers.
Luisa Carmona · April 27, 2026 · 17 min read
