They have regularly scheduled afternoon dives at 1:30 pm, and
irregularly scheduled afternoon dives for those who return from
morning two-tanks and wanted two more.

Yes.  They are the flexible kind, always have captains of their
fleet on call.  On occasions, they called up a captain and DM
just to take me out (and lose money in the process).  :-)

Owner Luis Perez and Manager Silvino are always around to
please and to negotiate.

Au contraire, mon frere.  Their 10 am schedule has evolved over
the years because of their clientele from Cancun, who get off
the ferry shortly before 10 am.  They pick up divers at the
Aldora Pier at 10 am before or after the ferry arrives.

They have dive "packages" bookable from Cancun (or Cozumel)
which INCLUDES a lunch and two afternoon/sunset dives afterwards.

They also stop on beaches for surface interval between the two
morning dives.  Some of the beaches have restaurants that serve
food.  Or you can bring your OWN food to the boat, and eat at
your leisure.

That's TROPICAL DIVING, the Mexican way.  :-)

BTW, unless there is a boatful of clueless newbies (extremely rare),
they NEVER have the "everyone goes up when the first divers runs
short on air" nonsense.  The DM goes up with a newbie who needed
help and comes back down;  or send an air hog (but otherwise
competent diver) up with his buddy for the boat to pick up.

OR, goes up with other divers near the end, and leave the
experienced to know how to fend for themselves until they are
ready, as told by Dan,

DB>  Every once in awhile you hear a story about the entire
DB>  group having to surface when one diver runs out of air.
DB>  These guys do just the opposite. There was an occasion
FB>  where a diver did get low on air, so the divemaster
DB>  signalled to us that he was bringing the guy up, and
DB>  waved goodby.

Dan Bracuk and his lovely wife Patti were happy about the freedom
they got to dive their profiles, and that they got to use up
most of their air in the tanks before surfacing
at THEIR leisure -- the time they dived with me two years ago
during Cozumel's Mardi Gras (Carnivale).  It seemed like such
a LONG time ago, until I found Dan's trip report:

http://tinyurl.com/eybau

-- Bob.

"Ross Garrett" <frederickrossgarrett@hotmail.com> pounded away at his
keyboard resulting in:

When I dove with them,  the late morning departure did in fact mean no
afternoon dives, at least none that I noticed.  Mind you, I was quite
content to do my two dives, and then do a gear and diver rinse while
sipping a beer, so I wasn't actually looking for any afternoon dives.

If you are considering afternoon dives, start looking at how much
available daylight you have.  Dusk is usually 7 or 8 pm or so.  The
boat returns from the morning trip at 2-ish.  I suppose it's possible,
but, I don't think the demand is high enough for a dive shop to start
two tanks dives at around 3 pm.

Having said that, no doubt someone will find a shop that does.

Dan Bracuk
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.