Dive pictures from the Mayan Riviera

sphelps · #1 02-08-2012, 01:36 AM

Wow I never saw half that diving in the Mayan, please share as much info as you can on the sites you went to! I'm heading down there this summer to do some diving among other things

hillegom · #2 02-08-2012, 01:43 AM

You are a great photographer. Beautiful pics.
Thanks for sharing

Treebeard · #3 02-08-2012, 02:53 AM

Your photos are absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Can you please provide the details of the dive sites and dive shops you used?
We are doing a dive trip to Akumal and Cozumel in August and that shark dive looks exhilarating. They were bull sharks??

Delphinus · #4 02-08-2012, 05:32 AM

Wow, fantastic pictures!

Casey8 · #5 02-08-2012, 05:35 AM

WOW WOW WOW beautiful pictures ! Love the grey angelfish !

Foxface · #6 02-08-2012, 06:25 AM

Wow, those are some great pictures, thanks for sharing!

Jakegr · #7 02-08-2012, 08:15 PM

Thank you again everyone.

The dive shop was "Dive Mike". They were pretty good and I would recommend them.

Unfortunately I didn't write down the dive site names. All of them were within a 20 minute boat ride of Playa del Carmen. I do remember the wreck "Mama vina" and my favorite site, which was a shallow ~30 ft dive, Jardines.

The bull shark dive is seasonal (I went in January), so I'm not sure if it will be available in August. It was really expensive for a single tank dive ($120!), but still worth it. The dive master feeds the sharks with a chain mail vest on.

Treebeard - Cozumel is a fantastic dive destination. It is far better than where I took these pictures. Have fun!

High tide · #8 02-09-2012, 02:54 AM

Very beautiful! Thank you for posting. The fish you asked about is a Redband Parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum).

Jakegr · #9 02-09-2012, 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by High tide

Very beautiful! Thank you for posting. The fish you asked about is a Redband Parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum).

Thank you! That ID was driving me crazy.

High tide · #10 02-09-2012, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jakegr

Thank you! That ID was driving me crazy.

No problem, I figured it was the least I could do for the pleasure of viewing those photos, seriously, got any more? That, and the fact I have a nice collection of books and jump on any opportunity to use them.