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Scuba Forum / Scuba Locations / August 2004Cozumel weather at Thanksgiving
We're going to CZM the week after Thanksgiving. Having only been there in late spring-summer, what's the weather like that time of the year. And what's the water temp? Do we need to bring some sort of wetsuit with us (shorty or john)? TIA  Signaturedillon When I was a kid, I thought the angel's name was Hark and the horse's name was Bob. > We're going to CZM the week after Thanksgiving. Having only been > there in late spring-summer, what's the weather like that time of the > year. And what's the water temp? Do we need to bring some sort of > wetsuit with us (shorty or john)? At that time of year it will probably rain a lot, or it might not. There may be a hurricane coming through. Or you could have perfect diving conditions. The air will be warm and humid. The water temp will be 80 degrees exactly (give or take a couple degrees). You may or may not need thermal protection depending on your own personal needs. Hope that helps. >>We're going to CZM the week after Thanksgiving. Having only been >>there in late spring-summer, what's the weather like that time of the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Hope that helps. It helped me, can I hold you to it? > It helped me, can I hold you to it? And here I thought you were beyond help. Sure you can, or I promise your money back. BTW, happened to stop by Coz last week when I was in the neighborhood. Adrian gives his regards to Bob (told me he's the only one left on the island that will put up with his 200' bounce dives) and I must say they are one great dive op. So laid back that they didn't even check my C-card nor make me fill out or sign any sort of paperwork. We were completely undocumented divers who could have disappeared without a trace and no one would have known better. Four dives with not so much as a single briefing. I loved it and tipped heavily. Aldora still sucks. Cabellitos rules! (Full report to follow if I feel like it) > BTW, happened to stop by Coz last week when I was in the neighborhood. > Adrian gives his regards to Bob (told me he's the only one left on the > island that will put up with his 200' bounce dives) Adrian is a great guy and DM, but I'll tell him personally, very soon, that he was wrong! Actually he was telling YOU what he knew wasn't true, just so you wouldn't go too far beyond YOUR own limit. > and I must say they are one great dive op. Most people I know who dived with them said the same thing, but the other stuff you said about the shop is not true, for the most part, for most folks. Otherwise, it would be a BAD MARK for any shop in Cozumel not to check the C-cards, even for loud-mouths. > So laid back that they didn't even check my C-card nor > make me fill out or sign any sort of paperwork. That's a NEGATIVE. They must have been rushed and somebody might have believed your tall tale about yourself. :-) > I loved it and tipped heavily. I'll find out what you consider "heavily" and how big a cheapskate you were. :-) > Aldora still sucks. Who cares, except your jihad-fixated IDIOT-pal Ron Lee. ;) > Cabellitos rules! It helps if you spelled it correctly, if not fully: Caballito. Caballito del Caribe. See: http://www.seahorsecozumel.com/scuba.html > (Full report to follow if I feel like it) We get what we paid for, whether you fell like it or not. -- Bob. > Adrian is a great guy and DM, but I'll tell him personally, very soon, > that he was wrong! Actually he was telling YOU what he knew wasn't > true, just so you wouldn't go too far beyond YOUR own limit. Nope. I was upfront with him about my refusal to go below 30' unless on trimix. > Most people I know who dived with them said the same thing, but the > other stuff you said about the shop is not true, for the most part, > for most folks. Otherwise, it would be a BAD MARK for any shop in > Cozumel not to check the C-cards, even for loud-mouths. Oh, yeah, I guess so. I think I told them over the phone that I was certified when I made the reservation. I must have an honest face. > That's a NEGATIVE. They must have been rushed and somebody might > have believed your tall tale about yourself. :-) Well Adrian certainly wasn't going to let me bounce dive to 200' without showing him my PADI Bounce Diving Specialty card. > I'll find out what you consider "heavily" and how big a cheapskate > you were. :-) Actually it wasn't all that heavy but it was all the cash that I had brought with me that I figured I could spare and still have enough left to get my car out of the lot in Playa del Carmen. $10 to the driver and $30 to Adrian for the two of us. That's heavily enough for Mexico. > It helps if you spelled it correctly, if not fully: It helps if you don't mix tenses, such as "it helps if you spell it correctly" or "would help if you spelled it correctly", but who's counting? Say hi to Adrian for me and tip him some more if you don't think I tipped enough. On the other hand, if you think I overtipped, demand a refund and buy yourself a virgin margarita. > > Adrian is a great guy and DM, but I'll tell him personally, very soon, > > that he was wrong! Actually he was telling YOU what he knew wasn't > > true, just so you wouldn't go too far beyond YOUR own limit. > > Nope. I was upfront with him about my refusal to go below 30' unless on > trimix. Remind me what's the third ingredient of your trimix besides, rum and taquila. > > Most people I know who dived with them said the same thing, but the > > other stuff you said about the shop is not true, for the most part, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Oh, yeah, I guess so. I think I told them over the phone that I was > certified when I made the reservation. I must have an honest face. I didn't realize they have video phone in Coz now. Else they might have been watching an old TV of Nizon waving his fingers, rolling his eyes, muttering "I am not a crook" and they thought it was you on the phone. > > That's a NEGATIVE. They must have been rushed and somebody might > > have believed your tall tale about yourself. :-) > > Well Adrian certainly wasn't going to let me bounce dive to 200' without > showing him my PADI Bounce Diving Specialty card. That's the one PADI Specialty I missed. But you would have lay off your trimix sauce before Adrian would let you do the PADI Bounce Diving Specialty max depth of 60 feet. > > I'll find out what you consider "heavily" and how big a cheapskate > > you were. :-) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > car out of the lot in Playa del Carmen. $10 to the driver and $30 to Adrian > for the two of us. That's heavily enough for Mexico. I've seen less. > > It helps if you spelled it correctly, if not fully: > > It helps if you don't mix tenses, such as "it helps if you spell it > correctly" or "would help if you spelled it correctly", but who's counting? I thought for a minute you were saying your "cabellitos" was a tense conjugation of "caballito". Besides, what you alluded to is not "tenses". It's called the subjunctive MOOD in the silly English language, such as "if bull frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their a.ses." But it's been so long since I learned that in a Chinese grade school that I may have been wrong, as in one previous occasion -- when I thought I was wrong. > Say hi to Adrian for me and tip him some more if you don't think I tipped > enough. On the other hand, if you think I overtipped, demand a refund and > buy yourself a virgin margarita. I don't drink, remember? Don't worry. Captain Giovanni and Adrian have taken me out when I was the only diver on their boat, on more than one occasion. They and the shop take care of their good customers well. You won't hear them calling me a cheapskate even if they don't always know where or how deep I dived during the first part of the first dive on a regular boat trip when the group was puttering at your depths. :-) As I said before in this fourm, they are very good for beginners (like yourself) as well as for experienced divers (such as Dan Bracuk and his wife) with whom I dived for several days last year. Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. What happened to your trip report? I'll be easier on you on your mistakes. :) -- Bob. > Remind me what's the third ingredient of your trimix besides, rum and > taquila. More tequila. That's why they make booze in different colors: gold and white tequila, light and dark rum, etc. > > Oh, yeah, I guess so. I think I told them over the phone that I was > > certified when I made the reservation. I must have an honest face. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > eyes, muttering "I am not a crook" and they thought it was you on > the phone. They didn't have their video phone installed on the boat yet, but I wasn't wearing my mask. So Adrian was able to put my honest face together with my conniving telephone voice. Wasn't Nizon the Mexican undersecretary of defense that ran away with millions, or is that the town next to Luzon in the Philippines? > I've seen less. So have I. When the bar closes at the end of the night and I dig through all the pockets to see if there's enough left for a cheap hooker. > I thought for a minute you were saying your "cabellitos" was a > tense conjugation of "caballito". As far as I know, nouns have neither tenses nor conjugations. They do have diminuitive forms in Mexico, but caballito is already the diminuitive form of caballo. Nope, cabello means hair, so cabellitos would be little hairs or "peachfuzz" which is an even sillier name for a dive shop than "Seahorse of the Caribbean". > Besides, what you alluded to is not "tenses". It's called the > subjunctive MOOD in the silly English language, such as "if bull frogs > had wings, they wouldn't bump their a.ses." But it's been so long since > I learned that in a Chinese grade school that I may have been wrong, > as in one previous occasion -- when I thought I was wrong. Perhaps you're in a bad mood as well, but I was complaining about your English tense in response to your nit about my Spanish spelling. Stop trying to confuse the issue with Chinese grade school logic. "It helps" is present tense while "you spelled" is past. Simple as that. > > Say hi to Adrian for me and tip him some more if you don't think I tipped > > enough. On the other hand, if you think I overtipped, demand a refund and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > know where or how deep I dived during the first part of the first dive > on a regular boat trip when the group was puttering at your depths. :-) You do drink fluid, correct? Note the word virgin, that modifies the word margarita sufficiently to remove all the offending alcohol so that there's more left for fish like me that drink like fish. Thanks for recalling Giovanni's name for me as I barely can remember DMs let alone drivers. He seemed like a nice guy, though a bit too openly religious for my secular diving tastes. If the sh.t hits the fan, I don't want a captain who throws in hands in the air and leaves it up to god. > As I said before in this fourm, they are very good for beginners (like > yourself) as well as for experienced divers (such as Dan Bracuk and his > wife) with whom I dived for several days last year. But think, when I'm finally as experienced as you and Dan, you'll likely both be dead. > Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. What happened to your trip report? > I'll be easier on you on your mistakes. :) It's still halfway drafted from the flight back. I haven't had time to pick it up again and probably won't get to it before I leave town again. Can I buy you a non-alcoholic drink in Vegas this Wednesday? > > I thought for a minute you were saying your "cabellitos" was a > > tense conjugation of "caballito". [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Perhaps you're in a bad mood as well, but I was complaining about your > English tense in response to your nit about my Spanish spelling. Ah, that's one thing I've learned about you, Greg -- you ALWAYS find some excuse to obfuscate, even when you were dead wrong and corrected. (Previous case: Standards for a "guilty" conviction in FOUR different types of courts, from criminal to civil. Have you gone back to ask your former law professors or ANY crininal court lawyer on YOUR silly claims <all in the archives>) Let's review the present nonsense of yours. You were talking about a DIVE SHOP in Cozumel which you liked, and you said it's name is "Cabellitos". The spelling correction is not exactly a "nit" as you put it. If someone went by what you said and looked for "cabellitos" from a google web search, s/he would have found: Corn Hairs or Cabellitos de Elote Corn Hairs Favored by Aztec Indians Diuretic and helps dissolve kidney and bladder stones. Just what every Cozumel diver want to know, right? So, I wrote in my follow-up: RF> It helps if you spelled it correctly, if not fully: RF> RF> Caballito. Caballito del Caribe. RF> See: http://www.seahorsecozumel.com/scuba.html which is the "Seahorse" dive shop, not an Aztec corn hair recipe. :-) Then Greg launched into his pointless nit about my misuse of TENSES, and he was wrong about THAT too, as I explained that a "subjunctive MOOD is not a tense". But Greg went on digging his hole ever deeper, beyond his maximum qualified depth of 30 feet. Watch this Greg: It "helps" (the present readers) "if you spelled it correctly" (in your past post) It is true I could have phrased it in the subjunctive mood, but only Greg or a 3rd-grade English teacher would make a big NIT of it, as no one could possibly have misunderstood what it meant. Whereas ... A dive shop by the name of "Cabellitos" -- is definitely POSSIBLE, if not a definite maybe, but you won't find it in Cozumel. :-)) BTW, there is another shop in Cozumel that is often confused with the Caballito (Seahorse) shop because the sound somewhat alike, and it's Careyitos I had this to say when Jack Sloan said it was the "best kept secret": RF> As a matter of fact, neither Ricardo Madrigal nor careyitos RF> advanced divers (nor the boat Careyitos) is a secret at all, RF> to anyone who knows anything about Cozumel! Ricardo and Rodolfo RF> were singled out for "high voltage diving" by dive mags like RF> UNDERCURRENT and IN DEPTH, as far back as the late 1980s and RF> the early 90s. Greg, here's a trimix you can use: http://www.travelnotes.cc/cozumel/links/diveshopreviews/careyitos.html http://www.advanceddivers.com/ http://www.advanceddivers.com/testimonials.asp -- Bob. > BTW, there is another shop in Cozumel that is often confused with the > Caballito (Seahorse) shop because the sound somewhat alike, and it's [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > RF> UNDERCURRENT and IN DEPTH, as far back as the late 1980s and > RF> the early 90s. Perhaps not secret, but rarely mentioned here. Jack > We're going to CZM the week after Thanksgiving. Having only been > there in late spring-summer, what's the weather like that time of the > year. And what's the water temp? Do we need to bring some sort of > wetsuit with us (shorty or john)? > > TIA The Atlantic hurricane season typically runs from June 1 through November 30. The worst months for hurricanes historically are August, September, and October. From November to May the temperatures in Cozumel average 25 degree Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). The weather is breezy with low humidity. From October to December there can be strong winds all over the Yucatan as well as rain. May to September is considered the rainy season. Water temeratures average about the same, 77-78 degrees. I was more than comfortable in a Polartec. > > We're going to CZM the week after Thanksgiving. Having only been > > there in late spring-summer, what's the weather like that time of the [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Water temeratures average about the same, 77-78 degrees. I was more than > comfortable in a Polartec. Randy's review is dead on..... I ran a thanksgiving Cozumel trip for 13 years consecutively and water temps run in the high 70's more often than low 80's. Rain and wind if you have the North wind. If you have the wind from the North it will come from the NW and the reef side (diving side) of the island gets very rough. It will rain hard and most often the "Northers" last 2 to 3 days. Then calm. The last big November hurricane in Cozumel was hurricane Keith.....one month following hurricane Gilbert. Cozumel diving this past week was very good. Eagle rays, many turtles, nurse sharks and good water weather. The group observed an 8 foot scalloped hammerhead on the surface just North of Tormentos reef. The boat follow the shark for over 30 minutes for photos. The shark circled the boat and stayed with fin breaking the water the entire time. 84 degree water, light current some chalky water due to heavy rain this summer. A very unusal summer for rain. The island has had a lot of rain. Visibility still at 80 to 100 ft....probably more on most dives. Forest Aten |
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