Dive Review of Amigos Del Mar in
Belize/San Pedro

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Amigos Del Mar: "Be Wary of Amigos Del Mar", Jun, 2017, by Linda I Teichman, CA, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 9627.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Be wary of diving with Amigos Del Mar. I dove with them yesterday was was unhappy that my first regulator tended to free flow, the second stuck. Both dives I had to switch to the spare. Thank goodness we were only on local dives, 10 minutes from the dock so it was easy to switch out the gear. All the gear looked quite tired and worn. We dove Tackle Box and San Pedro Canyon. The dives themselves were disappointing. Visibility was down to 60' or so due to a storm that had rolled through the night before...ok, I get that because of the storm things were churned up and am fine with that. But there were hardly any fish on either of the dives. We saw plenty of friendly nurse sharks, one even followed us, got its belly rubbed by the dive master, then continued to follow us as is asking for more. There was plenty of coral, fans, plumes, sponges, even a couple of reef sharks and tiger groupers... but the clouds of reef fish I was expecting were no where. We were supposed to dive the Blue Hole with ADM, but because of the regulator issues and the fact that their dive plan violated PADI and NAUI no decompression limits, we chose to not go.
Websites	Amigos Del Mar
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Monterey, CA, Key Largo, Turks and Caicos, Eilat, Israel, Bali, City Island, NY, Kona, HI, Lahaina, HI.
Closest Airport	San Pedro	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy, rainy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	81-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	50-60 Ft/ 15-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Subscriber's Comments

By Lawrence Babcock in IN, US at Jul 24, 2018 13:28 EST

a good reason why you should own your own equipment

By report author: Linda I Teichman in CA, US at Jul 24, 2018 15:30 EST

Agreed. I used to have my own equipment. But I dive only once or twice a year and the cost of maintenance and traveling with it became prohibitive.

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Dive Review of Amigos Del Mar in Belize/San Pedro

Amigos Del Mar: "Be Wary of Amigos Del Mar", Jun, 2017,

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Dive Review of Amigos Del Mar in
Belize/San Pedro