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"Language can be deceiving" that has always
been my excuses of not write anything after a dive trip. But … here I
am, writing a review for my last dive trip to Cozumel …
一向自诩中文不错，可现在却提笔无言，就像在这边国的生活一样，不知不觉中你疏忽了自己，疏远了哪些你最亲近的东西，英文写的费劲儿，中文写了自己都看不下去，所以呢，利用上班时间英文记了个流水帐，读了无味，不读也不可惜，看看照片吧，还是。。。
Cozumel 是墨西哥的一个小岛。被誉为北美最值（best value）的潜水点。Typical Caribbean dive, 这里的wall
dive也非常著名。Cozumel有几十个潜点，从na?ve到expert, 这里已drifting dive 为主。每潜都由divemaster带领。大部分时间不用打脚蹼，飞就行了
(除非你想停下来)。 水温一年四季在80F左右。3mm wetsuit will do…
We went to Cozumel May 9-13. It was not the best season in Cozumel; we
would have better chance to see large animals if we had came during the
winter season (before March). The flight arrived in the late afternoon,
we walked into the welcoming humidity and passed easily through immigration
and got the green light at customs. We settled at Hotel Vista Del Mar
(the view of the Ocean) on the ocean front drive, 3 blocks away from the
main plaza. The hotel room was cozy but nice and clean with the ocean
right in front of our eyes…we spend the rest of the 1st day wandering
on the streets (full of people and music) tried to find a dive shop (we
had been e-mailing with some dive shops, but couldn't make up our mind
until we talked to a real person). We finally settled with Deep Blue,
I guess we were tired at that moment and Alex liked Matt, the owner’s
British accent besides he has 2 big dogs …
We started diving Monday morning, since our last dive was 10 month ago.
We deiced to make a refresh shore dive… wonderful shallow reef and tons
of fishes…big arrow crabs
D1.01 -Santa Rosa Wall. (Max.depth 87’ bottom time 37min.)
A very popular site in Cozumel. The wall starts at 50 feet and drops straight
into the deep! a very swift current "fly" us along the wall.
Immense sponges, huge overhangs of stony coral and lots of caves and swim
through tunnels. We saw big angel fish, groupers and lobsters… Peblo was
our divemaster, he was such a funny guy, he even makes you laugh under
the water … and he talks… he sings too, I mean under the water, you don't
need to look for him, you HEAR him! He is just incredible …
D1.02 -Tormentos Shallow. (61 feet, 49 min.)
We headed back to Tormentos after a short break. It is a great place for
2nd dive. Rich colorful corals, sponges and seafans. we met a school of
snapper … sting ray at the sandy bottom, lots of lobsters and a splendid
tout fish. (the picture on the left shows the poor tout fish who got knocked
out by Peblo)
D2.01 Cedral Wall: (81 feet, 40 mins)
Tuesday morning, Deep Blue picked us up at the downtown pier
at 9:30am. We headed out to Paso Del Cedral. A perfect blue sky with a
few popcorn clouds dropping shadow on the crystal clear water … what else
you could have dreamed in your life?
Paso Del Cedral has been very popular with UW photographers, because of
the rich marine lives and the splendid color. The current was a little
strong along the wall; we stopped kicking just relaxed and enjoyed the
ride… we saw a couple of hawkbill turtles, they are big and friendly,
you can get really close before they get annoyed and turned away …
We had Peblo as our divemaster again, since we tipped so well yesterday,
he promised us to find shark for us…"shark is my friend" but
unfortunately he didn't find his friend while the other group on the boat
saw 2!
D2.02 Yucab: (58feet, 52 mins)
Only one word for Yucab- "beautiful" pure beautiful…the visibility
was 100 feet ..swift current waves the giant anemone like drunk, a pair
of white spotted filefish were shy in front of the camera … what was the
odd-shaped trunk fish blowing at? 鹿角珊瑚和黄色鸡毛草。
D3.01 Columbia Deep (98 feet, 37 min.)
The 3rd day we started at Columbia Deep. Awesome swim throughs. The coral
formations were very impressive. massive coral pillars, caves, tunnels
and sand dunes…(参见more-or-less之 华山论剑 水下篇。此处略去形容词N000个)。Sandro was our
divemaster for the 3rd day; he is a cool guy, dark and strong … a great
diver too, he has been diving in Cozumel for 11 years, watching him swimming
through tunnels and caves just like watching someone wandering in his
own back yard… he doesn't talk very much, but has beautiful smile…
.. We saw a pair of big rays at the end of the dive, like the "school
bus" in the movie "Finding Nemo" well, actually it is a
3-wheel cart with only one passenger…
D3.02 Paso Del Cedral (shallow) (57 feet, 51
min.)
"Shark! Shark!" Alex could not get my attention, so he started
yelling … I turned around but only saw nothing … "where?" I
followed his Sandro's lead, kicking hard again the current… "Here
she is!" Hiding under a overhanging … she lies there quietly … she
is not big, about 7-8 feet… I could not control my position while the
current pushing me towards the nurse shark, "woooo…" I knew
I was a little too close … didn't get a good shot, but I will see her
again …
D3.03 Paradise Reef (56 feet, 40 mins)
after a nap we headed out again for our last dive trip –twilight.
twilight 是一个dive 在下午5时，然后到沙滩上休息看日落，待天黑后，接一个夜潜。
Some of the divers were new to diving. 一个一直放风筝， and another tried to kick
my reg out. Saw four a big moray eel and a black grouper to make up for
that.
D3.04 Night dive at Paradise reef (43 feet, 43 mins)
we did the night dive at paradise again. I knew it won't be a great one
as soon as I saw all the other boats … there are 7-8 of them! U don't
even need a flash light down there … we kept run into others … but we
saw lots of lobsters, stone crabs and a octopus, a small one, size of
my palm …it changed its color from green to blue to yellow to transparent…
still can not escape from us
D4 Maya Ruin
我们最后一天租了一辆敞篷两门吉普车。绕岛一周转了一圈。Endless beach and wonderful food, 我们绕路看了玛雅文化遗址。Maya
pyramid 。。。还被超大lizard 吓了一跳。 两门敞篷不是为了扮酷，只是为了省钱，结果晒个半死，草草收兵，找到机场睡觉了…
好了草草收笔，我也要睡了。谢谢捧场。 欢迎提问，但我不能保证回答。。。
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第2天第1潜 —— Cedral Wall
第3天第2潜
—— Paso Del Cedral （浅水域） (17.5M，51分钟)
或许有更多的机会看到大家伙。我们的航班抵达的时候已经临近傍晚了，欢迎我们的是潮湿的空气。顺利通过了移民局和海关的检查，我们在临海的Vista
Del Mar 饭店住下，饭店与市区主广场隔着三个街区。 房间不大却也简单，舒适，干净，而且大海就在眼前……。第一天剩余的时间，我们就在充斥着熙熙攘攘的行人和音乐的街上散步，试着寻找一家潜水店（来之前我们曾用电子邮件与不少潜水店沟通过，但一直没有敲定）。我们最终确定了“深蓝”俱乐部。我猜想之所以确定这家店是因为那时我们都累了，而且Alex喜欢店老板Matt的英国口音，还有他的两条大狗………………。
第三天我们从Columbia
Deep开始。那里有令人为之悚然的沟壑。 珊瑚礁构造非常好，大量的珊瑚柱，洞穴，隧道和沙丘。
（参见more-or-less之“华山论剑”水下篇。此处略去形容词若干）。
