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- From: mdf@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Fox)
- Subject: Re: Any information about Cancun or Cozumel
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:29:14 GMT
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- Dan Beougher (danbe@master.CNA.TEK.COM) wrote:
- :
- : > b) I was told that from time to time, the currents that run off the
- : > wall can be dangerous. That if the conditions are right, it actually
- : > can be like flushing a toilet, ie the current is so strong running
- : > over the and down the wall that it will drag divers down even if
- : > their BC is inflated? Anyone else heard of this? I also was told
- : > by a local diver, not associated with Aqua Safari, that the best
- : > way to get out of this down current is to swim towards the wall.
- : > If this is true, this is the type of local dive info that is
- : > important to have. It seems that it can cause divers to panic
- : > when you cannot stop your descent when your BC is full....
- :
-
- My wife and I did two dives in Cozumel on our Honeymoon (we didn't have
- time for any more :-) ). The first was a drift dive over the bottom at
- about 40' and the second was a wall dive at an assigned max depth of
- 80'. My wife was having trouble equalizing so I was paying attention to
- her and our depth on the descent. I forgot about the current and was
- not paying attention to our position. At about 40' I looked down and
- was VERY unpleasantly surprised to NOT see the bottom. I grabbed my
- wife and it took about all I had to swim against the current to get back
- over the bottom (at which time I hugged a big rock and got over a slight
- panic attack). The moral to this story is that yes the currents in
- Cozumel can be VERY strong and you MUST pay attention to where you are
- at all times (that means position AND depth), however in my experience
- (limited I'll grant) there was no downward drag. Note that we were
- descending, so we could not have been compensating with our BCs.
-
-
- Mike Fox - HP Response Center
- email: mdf@hpuerca.atl.hp.com
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