Diving in the Panama & Mexican Riviera - Question

[eddy]

Hi all,

I'm going on holiday soon to the following places Grenada, Bonaire, Aruba, Limon, Fuerte Amador, Panama Canal, Puerto Quetzal, Huatulco & Acapulco.

I've never been to any of these places before but would love to do some diving - i only really have a day in each place (2 days in a couple of them) so i am looking for a reliable dive company.

Can anyone recommend dive companies in these places?
Also would anyone recommend any of these places or i guess not recommend them

Cheers

Eddy

[JasonP]

Originally Posted by eddy

Hi all,

I'm going on holiday soon to the following places Grenada, Bonaire, Aruba, Limon, Fuerte Amador, Panama Canal, Puerto Quetzal, Huatulco & Acapulco.

I'd recommend Scuba Tech for Grenada. You really want to do the Bianca C. They'll do twinsets and nitrox.
scubatech

Of the others, I've been to Aruba. Make sure you do the Antilla. All the dive places seemed fairly similar, but my report is here:
Aruba Trip Report, September 2003

Don't imagine there's much worth diving in Acapulco.

Jason

[CotoChris]

Are you going on a cruise? Who else would go to Panama canal in any other way? :-) In any case for Panama the best place I can thinkl of diving is at Bocos de Toro Islands near Costa Ricva border on the caribean side.

[eddy]

Originally Posted by CotoChris

Are you going on a cruise? Who else would go to Panama canal in any other way? :-) In any case for Panama the best place I can thinkl of diving is at Bocos de Toro Islands near Costa Ricva border on the caribean side.

Yeah i'm going on a cruise, and yes i am under 30 so don't take the p*ss. It was a free gift

Thanks for the info - i have a month and a bit to get things sorted - as you can imagine you don't have an endless amount of time so i want to see if i can sync diving with the time i have off ship.

There is a dive offered on the cruise but its a "one tank" dive at two sites and they have the cheek to charge £75

Eddy

[CotoChris]

This was back in 1995/6 when I was travelling across Central America and when I took up diving. I went to Limon (in Costa Rica) and found it to be one of the roughest, most dangerous places I've been - and I've been to some weird places like Bangui in Central African Republic. The druggies were everywhere, either collapsed on the floor or shooting on the park. In the central park in any city one expects pigeons, there there were vultures! It was so dangerous that rather than staying overnight I got a taxi to the Panamanian boorder.

It must be quite different now otherwise I can't expect a cxruise to stop there but interest to hear your views.

Hope you get to grab some good dives. Panama Canal is fanatastic by the way, especially going through the locks.

Havn't been on cruises but would suggest not to follow the crowd after docking and try to do something independently - such as diving!