Dive Review of Blue XTSea/Casa Mexicana in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

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Blue XTSea/Casa Mexicana, Jul, 2006, by Karen Guthrie, CA, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports). Report 2607.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Had read reports of Coz being destroyed after the hurricane. Not true. While soft corals did suffer compared the southern tip and there was some sand on the reef, there were TONS of neat things to see. Had read that the beds at Casa Mexicana were too hard, also not true. The hotel was wonderful and so central you could walk anywhere or for 3 to 5 dollars take a cab. Pickup was a three minute walk from the hotel which included a buffet breakfast with everything from made to order omletts to bagels. The diving was easily the best we have found in the Carribean including Little Cayman before their hurricanes. Although we only dived 5 days we saw loads of tropicals including smooth trunkfish by the bunches, queen triggers and queen angels, french angels, grey angels, sleeping nurse sharks, 14 turtles on one dive called Tortugas near Playa Del Carmen, two hunting octopi and some hunting lobsters on our night dive and an eagle ray and red liped batfish on other days. Usually Queen Angels are shy but here they are used to divers as are many fish and don't run away. Dive op grouped us by skill level most days allowing us to get in one 75 minute dive and many over an hour. Then we went to Isla Holbox 7/10 and 7/11 to see the whalesharks for a couple of days. Saw many both days and our little boat of 4 to 6 people got one to ourselves because there were SO many that we didn't need to mob one animal. They swim really fast so even if they are just cruising you have to pump to keep up but it is doable. Take your wetsuit as it is colder than Cozumel and if you have a wetsuit you don't need the lifevest which streamlines you for speed. We went with Ricardo. [travelyucatan.com link] He arranged for us to stay at the Wayak. It is air conditioned but rustic. You usually are awakened about sunrise by the chirping of the gekos that have chosen your ceiling to hang out on. Try the lobster pizza. When driving to Chiquila to get to Holbox, don't get on the 40 near Cancun as it is a toll road and there are no offramps which makes you go hours out of your way. Safest way from Cozumel or Playa Del Carmen is to head to Tulum (in the wrong direction) but you can't mess up the roads and end up having to double back.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Caymans, Belize, Palau, Thailand, GBR, Hawaii, LaPaz Mexico, Cay Sal Bank, Fiji, California
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents, noCurrents
Water Temp	0-0°F / -18--18°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	0-0 Ft/ 0-0 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive to 500psi.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	> 2
Turtles	> 2	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
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	There were a lot more neat things to take pictures of than I expected. Although the boat didn't have a rinse tank the captain nestled it into a bag of towels for safe transport and handed it to you carefully.

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Dive Review of Blue XTSea/Casa Mexicana in Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan

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Dive Review of Blue XTSea/Casa Mexicana in
Cozumel and the Mexican Yucatan