STILL PHOTOGRAPHY: only records how good a diver looked for a fraction of a second....VIDEO IS BETTER!

 WE HAVE VIDEOS!

We have been going to Mexico since 1987. At least once a year and sometimes two, three and even four times in 2007. John has been there more than 50 times and has stayed as long as five weeks. We have been among the regular visitors to Cozumel since 1990. We can show you a few things about the island that will be helpful.

Underwater, we have done just about every known & named dive as well as some on the east side. We've lost count of how many times we have visited popular dives like Santa Rosa Wall and Punta Sur as well as the Palancar Collection. John has done dives in Cueva Quebrada & Areolito de Paraiso, two of the explored systems beneath the island.

THAT'S RIGHT: we wish we did live there but we know the place about as well as could be expected of most people who lead groups of divers to that location.

BuoyancyQuest promotes high quality mentoring of both Buoyancy Control Skills and an alternate propulsion method; i.e. Frog Kick. This training is offered within the context of a dive travel adventure in Cozumel, Mexico and features 13 dives with mentoring before during and after.

BuoyancyQuest's Workshops  promise noticeable improvement of your skills without the formality of certification. We believe that skills define your diving, not how many toys you own or how many cards you collect. Other entities offer fundamentals, usually cloaked in tech diver images. We offer an alternative; a tech diver worthy foundation without the carrot on a string.

 Don't expect your equipment to make you into a better diver!

"LOOK....NO HANDS!"

LEARN TO: FROG KICK

"BE THAT DIVER!"

Real Buoyancy Control Ability is a lot like wisdom; it requires time and effort to acquire and then it is almost impossible to give away, much less sell. We see many more divers who are pretending to be elite, than the total of all divers who have exceptional buoyancy skills. For every cave diver , that we see in jet fins, there are dozens of divers wearing jet fins in order to be mistaken for a tech diver. Some of them put on double tanks,  a dry suit and wear single window frameless black masks and don expensive canister lights, with "goodman handles". Some flock to sidemount classes, the latest tech diving technique to go viral among a diving population that has never bothered to master buoyancy control skills. SCUBA Diving is a "Make Believe" or "dress up and pretend" experience for too many people.  Without having that fundamental ability (aka. good buoyancy), all of the other equipment and ambitions have no foundation. All of this is true and the fact that most of the Recreational SCUBA Diving Community fails to recognize or acknowledge it....or continues to exist in a state of denial....does not alter that truth.

Most divers think that their equipment will provide them with all that they need and that technology will conquer nature. Some others think all that they need to do to have good buoyancy skills is to "just go dive" and somehow , "like magic",  better Dive Skills will be the natural result. The current crop of celebrity divers, within "the status quo", do not support that notion when they are viewed underwater. How a diver actually looks underwater, says more about his status than any amount of c-cards or equipment that he has collected or even how long he has been diving or how many dives he has done.

Some divers hope that the big training agencies with their  buoyancy certification courses will direct them to  their diving destiny. Most divers who opt for a two dive buoyancy certification course, end up looking.... "UNDERWATER"....like exactly what they are.... a person who just paid for a useless plastic card.

MENTORS: (qualified mentors) who can demonstrate above average buoyancy skills underwater, are what is needed!  Mentors can be your friend or dive buddy or they can be a paid professional  but in either case they must be able to focus the attention on skills rather than toys and they must be able to look like the diver that you would like to be when you see them underwater. First and foremost , the goal of the mentor should be to transfer ability to the protégé (I know but I just don't like the term men~tee). For profit or from a spirit of fraternity....the mentor must be able to invest in the other diver even if that pupil might, some day, exceed the ability of the mentor. Experts who do not share in order to preserve their own status....are not mentors.

TEAMWORK

JUST 3 OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT MAKE UP OUR TEAM

 FERNANDO ( our guide).

THAT'S RIGHT! we recognize the contributions that these very skilled individuals bring to the;
We would be just another Cozumel Dive Trip without their efforts.

"WE'RE NOT JUST ANY COZUMEL DIVE TRIP!"


Felipe Xicotencatl
C- 53 WRECK DIVE

A few years ago, a celebrity diver with a TV Show in the United States did a Cave Diving episode in Mexico. This well known diver did some cave training with a Mexican friend of ours. When the piece aired in the states, another celebrity diver (from the states) was substituted as "the cave instructor".  The message we took from that was; someone didn't think that an audience in the United States, was ready to see their hero learn anything from a Mexican.

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