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Aggressor Fleet: "Warm Above, Cold Below", Mar, 2018, by Charles Beilman, CT, US ( 1 report). Report 10190.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
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Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	I was looking forward to my week on the Costa Rica Aggressor I. A few days before the trip I received a text saying that the water temperature was 84 degrees. I decided to switch over from cold water neoprene to warm water. I flew in the day before and spent the night in San Jose at the recommended hotel. I had a pickup scheduled for 2 PM the next day. I go to the lobby at 1:45 and find out that the van had left without us! After some frantic phone calls, we got the van to come back for us. It was a two hour drive to the port in Punta Arenas. The boat was up to the usual high Aggressor standards. The crew was fantastic. We spend the week at Canos Island, not to be confused with Cocos Island. The first dive was a wakeup call. We back rolled into 84 degree crystal clear water. There was surface current, so we went down the line. Gloves helped a lot. At about 40 feet everything changes. The water temperature dropped to 72 degrees. The water was green with poor vis. The current got worse. If you didn’t catch the line, you would never make it down to the dive site. At the bottom was more current and surges. This made getting around and photography very difficult. The only good news was we could surface anyplace we wanted and the dive skiff would promptly pick us up. We saw a humpback whale one day from the dive skiff. Several times we saw dolphins from the skiff or the boat. We saw white tip sharks on many of the dives. Sadly, not only were the diving conditions poor, but we were limited to three dives a day and no night dives. I guess I got spoiled by the warm clear waters of the Caribbean. I loved the boat, the crew, and the fellow passengers.
Websites	Aggressor Fleet
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Most of the Caribbean, Palau, Tahiti, Hawaii.
Closest Airport	SJO	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	choppy, surge, currents
Water Temp	71-84°F / 22-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	40-80 Ft/ 12-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	We were given a generous max depth and a limit of 60 minutes. Buddy teams could do their own profiles or stick with a group.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	1 or 2
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	There was poor vis and current/surge on almost every dive. I gave up shooting wide angle and concentrated on macro. There was a good number of small fish, nudibranchs, etc. Gloves are HIGHLY recommended for abrasion protection.

Subscriber's Comments

By Carol D Cox in FL, US at Apr 13, 2018 18:19 EST

Hi Chuck - I just posted my review of the same trip and then I found your review. Funny, I mentioned several photographers switched to macro by mid-week, and then you mention that you switched. My report is pretty close to yours. - Carol

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Dive Review of Aggressor Fleet in Costa Rica

Aggressor Fleet: "Warm Above, Cold Below", Mar, 2018,

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Dive Review of Aggressor Fleet in
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