Diving Snorkeling Cozumel Mexico (2019 HD) Maya Riviera, Caribbean Sea
Love Diving Snorkeling Cozumel Mexico 2019, Maya Riviera, Caribbean Sea. While traveling to and staying on Cozumel for a week, this is the diving that I did. I stayed at 2Tank Dive Hostel which I highly recommend. I did no prior planning of where I would dive and just showed up and winged it. The front desk personnel at 2Tank were very helpful in steering me in the right direction, but getting to these locations was a challenge to say the least.
Please check back weekly as I will be making several videos of this trip and breaking down the experiences by location and what I went thru along the way. I if you have comments or questions, please post them as I would love to get feed back. I want to hear from you !
This first Video starts with the Journey from Merida Yucatan Mexico to Playas del Carmen via ADO bus. From Playas, I caught a ferry to Cozumel. I included maps for reference and to the spot where this video was captured. I walked about 45 minutes in 98 F to get to the location. This takes place next to a Car Ferry along the reef to the ferry, under the pier to the boats and back.
Do you have any favorite places to dive in Cozumel ? please let me know in comments. I look for places with easy shore access.
Cozumel is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen and close to the Yucatán Channel. The municipality is part of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The economy of Cozumel is based on tourism with visitors able to benefit from the island's balnearios, diving, and cultural attractions. The main town on the island is San Miguel de Cozumel.
Cozumel is mostly undeveloped Mexican island in the Caribbean Sea, a popular cruise ship port of call famed for its scuba diving. At Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park, there's diving spots around a section of the Mesoamerican Reef and the Museo Subacuático de Arte’s submerged sculptures. Chankanaab is an eco park surrounding a lagoon with underwater caverns, home to dolphins, manatees and sea turtles.
The island is covered with mangrove forest which has many endemic animal species. Cozumel is a flat island based on limestone, resulting in a karst topography. The highest natural point on the island is less than 15m (49ft) above sea level. The cenotes are deep water-filled sinkholes formed by water percolating through the soft limestone soil for thousands of years.
Cozumel has tropical savanna climate under the koppen climate classification that closely borders on a tropical monsoon cimate. The dry season is short, from February to April, but even in these months precipitation is observed, averaging about 45 mm (1.8in) of rain per month. The wet season is lengthy, covering most of the months, with September and October being the wettest months, when precipitation averages over 240 mm (9.4in). Thunderstorms can occasionally occur during the wet season. Temperatures tend to remain stable with little variation from month to month though the temperatures are cooler from December to February with the coolest month averaging 22.9 C (73.2 F).
The Maya are believed to have first settled Cozumel by the early part of the 1st millennium AD, and older Preclassic Olmec artifacts have been found on the island as well. The island was sacred to Ix Chel, the Maya Moon Goddess, and the temples here were a place of pilgrimage, especially by women desiring fertility. There are a number of ruins on the island, most from the Post-Classic period. The largest Maya ruins on the island were near the downtown area and have now been destroyed. Today, the largest remaining ruins are at San Gervasio, located approximately at the center of the island.
The first Spanish expedition to visit Cozumel was led by Juan de Grijalva. In the following year Hernan Cortes stopped by the island on his way to Veracruz. The Grijalva and Cortés expeditions were both received peacefully by the Maya of Cozumel, unlike the expeditions’ experiences on other parts of the mainland. Even after Cortés destroyed some of the Maya idols on Cozumel and replaced them with an image of the Virgin Mary, the native inhabitants of the island continued to help the Spanish re-supply their ships with food and water so they could continue their voyages.