West coast SCUBA?

I dive. I have tried PV & Manzanillo, not great in either location. Highlight sin Spring are hearing the humpbacks underwater. However a dive is dive.

I spent 7 months on my 34' sailboat cruising the Baja and west coast of Mexico. Diving on the outside of the Baja is cold (like southern CA), until you get south of Bahia Santa Maria. The west coast was OK but not much to write home about but.... the Sea of Cortez is nothing short of amazing. I didn't have a compressor but carried 3 tanks one of which was always held in reserve in case of boat problems that required dive time.

I had a friend who was a master free diver and he patiently introduced me to the sport with some success. Spent far more time free diving than with tanks and that would be my recommendation for anyone traveling by RV. Scuba requires an inordinate amount of gear and frankly the diving is better (visibility and temperature wise), in 35' or less which is well within the range of most folks who free dive.

:C

We have tried diving on both the west and east coasts of Mexico. There is good diving in some areas of the Baja but we have not heard of any good diving on the mainland west coast. There are dive operators but if you are an experienced diver there is not much to see. On the east coast there is good diving in a couple of areas - Cozumel for sure - and a couple places across from Cozumel on the mainland. There is also cenote diving in the Yucatan - cavern diving as opposed to cave diving - very interesting. We took our dive gear to Mexico one year but have not done it again as we were not thrilled by what we found - other than Yucatan and Cozumel. If you do go to Yucatan we recommend the operations in Akumal over those in Paa Mul - by a long shot. We have not been diving in the Baja but have heard there is some good diving there.