Thursday, February 8, 2007
Cozumel, Here We Come!
Frigid wind blowing through coats, arctic air numbing faces, temperatures plummeting into negative territory. Someone remind me why I'm living on the East Coast.... I grudgingly admit, however, that the cold weather makes you appreciate the warm days. So maybe the high temp in my native San Diego tomorrow will be 70, but when the weather's the same year round, you take it for granted. If I still lived there, I think my enthusiasm for my upcoming escape to Cozumel would be incrementally smaller. Okay, granted, I'd still be thrilled... but I wouldn't appreciate the tropical weather quite so much as I will a few weeks from now.
I've heard Devil's Throat is the "must dive" site in Cozumel. Has anyone dived that site? If so, please post a comment to this blog or send me an email and share your experience. As with the Oceanblue Divers trip to Nassau in December, we'll have a wide range of experience levels on this trip. As exciting as Devil's Throat sounds, the accounts I've read suggest that it's not for beginners. Narrow, dark swim-throughs, potential silt-outs, getting dumped over the lip of the wall at 120 feet... sounds like an adventure to me, but not for everyone!
Or perhaps I've been reading the wrong reports. Perhaps "Devil's Throat" is what you have after a week of breathing bone-dry compressed air and rehydrating with tequila. Cozumel, here we come!
I've heard Devil's Throat is the "must dive" site in Cozumel. Has anyone dived that site? If so, please post a comment to this blog or send me an email and share your experience. As with the Oceanblue Divers trip to Nassau in December, we'll have a wide range of experience levels on this trip. As exciting as Devil's Throat sounds, the accounts I've read suggest that it's not for beginners. Narrow, dark swim-throughs, potential silt-outs, getting dumped over the lip of the wall at 120 feet... sounds like an adventure to me, but not for everyone!
Or perhaps I've been reading the wrong reports. Perhaps "Devil's Throat" is what you have after a week of breathing bone-dry compressed air and rehydrating with tequila. Cozumel, here we come!
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is it 'devil's tongue' or 'devil's throat'? my friend dove it before. 160 ft! definitely not for beginners. looking forward to some sun and tequlia and meeting fellow divers.
-Lin(from DC Scuba Meetup)
-Lin(from DC Scuba Meetup)
# posted by 
: February 9, 2007 at 9:38 AM
: February 9, 2007 at 9:38 AM
It is "Devil's Throat". I haven't dived it, but have lots of friends that have. Supposedly, you start out at 70 and end up at 140 or so. Definitely not a Nitrox dive. :-)
I dove 'Devil's Throat' in May '05. You shouldn't worry about going beyond the depths of recreational diving. You can 'hug the ceiling' and not go below 110'. If memory serves, I was at 107'. The dive-throughs in Coz can be long and windy, but this particular 'throat' is a very short nook with a steep ledge in a cave as dark as it gets. Suddenly, it'll be pitch black, but a glance down reveals the crystal clear waters. - Lars (OBD)
# posted by : February 9, 2007 at 3:48 PM
: February 9, 2007 at 3:48 PM
and another thing . . . the 'Devil's Throat' dive is pretty far south off of the island. Great walls down there, but water can get rough and dive operators often add an extra charge to go that far.
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