![]() You tell us what you want to do and our Adventure Team will custom tailor your experience with only the best snorkel locations with the best conditions for YOUR trip. Look for a greeter with a blue or red crew shirt. Please check in 20 minutes prior to the departure time.We do not recommend these trips for people with back problems, heart problems, poor health or women during late pregnancy.SCUBA Diving and our “Intro SCUBA Experience” are optionally available on this tour.See more about our food by clicking on the "Food" link. Chef prepared lunch and snacks are provided.This tour averages 4 hours and 30 minutes. Locations vary by day and by weather conditions. SCUBA diving will be a one tank dive at one of the locations the tour stops at. You must purchase this in advance and provide your height and weight during checkout. This is for both Certified and non-Certified divers. No experience is necessary through our PADI Discover Scuba Diving program. We offer optional SCUBA diving as an add-on for up to 6 people on this tour. All passengers must have purchased a reservation. This Adventure has it all with “Aloha Nui”! We will also hang out with Humpback Whales and we often encounter dolphins. While snorkeling and diving expect to swim with turtles and abundant marine life, and experience beautiful coral gardens. This adventure features our exclusive Blue Water Maui Floating Island for lounging, playing or drift snorkeling! If you opt to experience SCUBA on this tour you will experience a one tank SCUBA dive at one of the tour stops. In addition to snorkeling, we also offer an optional “add on” SCUBA diving for both certified divers and new divers through our "Discover SCUBA Diving Experience". During the winter whale season, we whale watch and snorkel. Expect multiple snorkel sites on Maui and/or Lanai during non-whale season months. If you judge your own skills honestly (and therefore avoid asking for sites you're not ready for) and have basic skills (good enough to pass OW class) you shouldn't need to worry about "check out dives" at all.Our Adventures are custom tailored to snorkel and dive locations with the best conditions for YOUR trip. Now imagine what could have happened had some dive op dropped them off above the entrance to the Devils Throat without a checkout dive. And it was obvious during the SI that neither was interested in listening to suggestions. Roto tilling, head up swimming, and hand sculling all played a part. 15 minutes later they were back on the boat, having burned through their gas. With more weight, they both got to the bottom. The same brothers hit the water with us for a shallow (40FSW) dive on Paradise Reef. Grossly underweighted, but he had insisted that the 6lbs would be enough. One of them had burned through 2000PSI just trying to get down. They hit the water with us, and returned to the boat without ever reaching the bottom. On the same boat were a couple gentlemen from the UK. Our dive plan was to drop to the bottom (111 FSW where we dropped) and simply explore the reef as we worked our way to the shallower portion of the reef. We were not diving the Devils Throat, but another group did. In May of this year, we were on a boat at Punta Sur. ![]() For example, from what I have seen, most dive ops on Cozumel don't drop you off on Punta Sur to dive the Devils Throat unless you've dove some other, easier, site withe them so they can judge your skill level.Ĭheckout dives are not likely to be anything you ought to stress over, but they can certainly be important. If you're planning to dive advanced sites, it would also allow the operator to ensure that your skills are up to snuff for that site, although in my (admitedly limited) experience, this sort of skills evaluation is more likely done during a regular open water dive at a less challenging site. If its a shore diving resort, it may also include some orientation to key landmarks. Are you asking about checkout dives done as part of your class, or at a resort?Īs part of your class, the checkout dives will be open water dives during which you repeat (and practice) all the skills you learned during your confined water (pool) dives.Īt a resort, checkout dives are essentially a bouyancy check, to ensure that you're not going to be crashing into the reef. ![]()
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