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- How do I find your shop?
- Where can I find your charter boats?
- What are the business hours of your company?
- Do you teach beginner diving? Do we start in a swimming pool?
- Where do you do your dives?
- How many divers do you take per group?
- What are the average water temperatures?
- What equipment should we bring?
- What can I expect for visibility? Do you drift dive?
- What is included in each diving tour? Food? Water? etc...
- Do you have a fresh water rinse? Can you store our gear overnight?
- How do I make a reservation? What forms of payment do you accept?
- What is your refund policy?
- Should make a reservation directly with the shop or
in the hotel?
- Do you work with cruise ship lines?
Blue Adventures is centrally located on the Marina in downtown Cabo San Lucas. We are between the Marina Fiesta Hotel and the new Cabo
hacienda Luxury-Residential Development in the Marina Cabo Plaza Condominiums. The office is located on the marina side of the building
over-looking "A" dock of the Marina Cabo San Lucas and the "Fundadores" or Founders fishing dock. The Puerto Paraiso shopping mall is a
150 yard walk. The Medano Beach is no more than a five minute walk along the marina.
Our charter boats are located on the "Fundadores" or Founders
fishing dock, dock "A" of the Marina Cabo San Lucas and on dock "D"
of the Marina Cabo San Lucas directly in front of the Puerto Paraiso
shopping mall.
The office hours of Blue Adventures are 8:30am to 6pm, monday
through saturday and 9am to 4pm on sundays. We can be reached
24 hours a day by cell phone in Cabo at 044 (624) 355 - 8687, or by
e-mail.
We hold classes daily in Cabo San Lucas for those with no
experience in scuba diving. Certified PADI Instructors with
years of diving experience are available to make your first
experiences in the Ocean the best we possibly can. For more
information please refer to our PADI
scuba diving classes.
Dives are held daily in the Cabo San Lucas Marine Preserve.
Advanced reservations are required for expeditions to the living
coral reef at the Cabo Pulmo National Park, the corridor and Gordo
Banks. Dives are available for those with no experience,
intermediate divers and expert scuba divers.
We specialize in small groups and outstanding service. No
diving charter will contain more than 8 scubad divers and 1
divemaster is provided for every four divers. Private tours
are available for groups of up to 4 certified divers with an
exclusive divemaster and boat captain. We can provide service
for groups of up to 25 divers for organized diving groups and dive
shop travel tours.
Ocean temperatures in Cabo very drastically throughout the year.
However, the changes in temperature provide for the existance of on
the most unique underwater environments in the world.
September through December the water ranges from 80 to 90 degrees
(f). January through April the water temperatures fall to
between 65 to 80 degrees (f). In May, the Ocean can reach
temperatures as low as 58 degrees, however, this temeperature brings
crystal clear water and large species close to shore. June
through August the water temperature rises quickly to the upper
eighties. Please contact us for more
specific information.
Blue Adventures has a full service rental department and can
provide anything you may need while diving in Los Cabos.
However, you are welcome to bring along any gear you may have.
We suggest having regulators and BCs service by professionals before
coming to Cabo if you do not use them regularly.
Ocean visibility in Cabo ranges from 30' to over 100', there is
no set formula for knowing when visibility will be optimium.
Know that the colder months bring Plankton and vast numbers of
microscopic organisms that cloud visibility, but this activity also
brings in whales and other forms of large Pelagic life. The
worst days in Cabo will still provide a minimum of 25 ' to 30'
visibility. Also, after seasonal rain storms the fresh water
run-off will effect visibilty for up to one week, sometimes reducing
our visible range to less than 10'. Please
contact us for specific information before
scheduling your diving adventures.
Lunch is included in the day trips to Cabo Pulmo and Gordo Banks.
However, it is not included in local diving in Cabo San Lucas.
The local tours are typically only three to four hours.
Countless restaurants can be found around the Marina Cabo San Lucas.
Bottled water is provided on every tour.
Fresh water is provided on the dock for rinsing scuba gear after
diving. Blue Adventures will store your gear overnight in our
shop. Twenty four hour security guards, an alarm system and
drying areas are provided. No worries!
How do I make a reservation? What
forms of payment do you accept?
To
make a reservation, please contact us by e-mail (cabosea@yahoo.com)
or telephone (602.324.9007) in the United States. We will
respond as soon as possible to answer any questions you have and
schedule your reservation. We accept Paypal (we will send you
an invoice after verifying available space), Cash (United States
dollars, Mexican Pesos and Euros), Visa, Mastercard and American
Express Travelers Checks (no American Express credit cards except
through paypal).
Blue Adventures prides itself on personalized service and will never overbook a tour.
Therefore, we ask for payment in advance for all services and prefer to work with reservations. However,
walk-ins are always welcome if space permits. For online bookings we
require 72 advanced notice to guarantee space for clients and provide internet
discount pricing. Cancellations made with 48 hours or more advanced notice
will receive 100% refunds. Also, cancellations caused by changes in cruise
ship itineraries will receive 100% refunds as long as Blue Adventures is
contacted before the time of tour departure. If Blue Adventures is forced
to cancel tours due to closure of the Port by the Port Captain due to severe
weather conditions all tours will be re-scheduled (100% refunds will be given if
rescheduling is impossible in regards to clients pre-arranged travel plans.) Cancellations made with
more than 24 hours advance notice will receive a refund of 50% of the value of the tour cost.
Cancellations made with less than 24 hours notice will not receive refunds.
Blue Adventures will attempt to re-schedule all cancellations to provide service
as space is available. No refunds, exchanges or substitutions will be made
other those listed above. Thank you for your courtesy and understanding of
our policies.
Should I make a reservation directly with the
shop or in the hotel?
Unfortunately the reality in Mexico is that large corporations
pay very meager wages to the common workers. For this reason
and at no fault of their own hotel employees rely heavily on attempts
to route hotel guests to activity providers that are willing to pay
the most in return for work. Usually it is the poorest quality
operations that are willing to pay the most. In the end, the
tourist pays the difference in lack of quality and a poor experience.
All too often we receive reports that Cabo San Lucas is not a good
place for diving. Please take a look at our photos and read
through our site. The Sea of Cortez and Cabo San Lucas is
known by experts in Scuba Diving and Marine Biology as a true wonder
of the world. Please do no allow yourself to be misled, book
your diving in Cabo San Lucas directly with your dive shop. Be
it our shop or another make sure your all your dollars go to your
service.
We do not have contracts with any of the cruise ship lines and do
not plan to in the future. The cruise ships bring large crowds.
Although great for the local t-shirt vendors and restaurants, a
large crowd on a diving boat is a recipe for disaster. The
numbers are hard to manage, too many people without supervision
causes tremendous damage to dive sites and the quality of diving
decreases because most of the life is frightened away before all the
divers are in the water. We are happy to provide scuba diving
services for those cruise ship travelers looking for a premium
experience at a great price. Book in advance, last time we
checked the cruise ships had even blocked our website from their
servers to force patrons to their partnering operations.
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