I'm a VERY experienced tech instructor and was traveling with my new wife who is a newer diver. We found Natalie, Carlos, and the rest of the staff to be informative, helpful, and fair. As many dives as I've done, I know better than to believe I know it all about all the dive sites in the world. The briefings... more

First of all, Puerto Aventuras is lovely and I highly recommend staying there in one of the hotels or an apartment. This trip in August 2009 was our sixth since 2003. Besides bragging about Aquanauts, I will compare a bit to their nearby competition, Pro Dive. My 13 year old son and I are OWD/JOWDs with about 15 dives each.... more

High marks to Dennis, Natalie, Chris, Carlos, and staff at Aquanauts. Our dive club just returned from a week at the Catalonia in Puerto Aventuras. We had approximately 12 divers, all wanting to do something a little different. Aquanauts runs 3 dive trips daily. Show up, and you can go, on a space available basis. They even ran at least... more

I think Aquanauts provides very good dive instruction and training for new divers. But as an experienced diver, I was not impressed. I actually canceled my additional dives scheduled with them and looked elsewhere. As an experienced diver, I was placed with a novice group that spent part of their time training in a shallow bay and then had a... more

Short summary: Excellent operation - go there! A very nice shop, excellent friendly and knowledgable staff. Spent a week diving with them doing numerous ocean dives and 2 cenote dives. I think ended up diving with everyone there except Dennis! Regardless of the number of divers signed up, you go diving - even if it's you and the DM. That... more

I was looking for reef, cenote, and night dives on two days in seven while at Aventuras Spa Resort. Sent two e-mail inquiries to other vendors which were not answered. Upon arrival in Mexico on Sun., I called Aquanauts on advice of tours rep at Palace Resorts and Natalie returned my call within a few hours. Reef and cenotes dives... more

I fully recommend Aquanauts as they are a small friendly dive shop that are actually seem pleased to have your business. Very relaxed atmosphere and staff are attentive. My friend and I had an introductory dive and couldnt wait to do a repeat the day after (would have had more if staying longer). In particular look out for the lovely... more

9 dives...at 1st it was just OK, it had been raining for days, then it cleared and we kept having better and better dives each time, turtles, lobsters, eels, rays, and great fish and coral! They arranged a pick up at nearby Barcelo resort, and the really nice part was they tool free tel they have from the US. They... more

Aquanauts was recommended by my local (Nebraska) dive shop AND the owner of the condominum we leased. Management and staff were friendly, attentive and accomodating. They gave real situation reinforcement to learning that makes an impression. I did the 4 dive package and had the best experience in my 30+ years being a scuba diver. It helps that there are... more