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Dive Boats of La Paz

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Company description There are two major dive boats currently operating out of La Paz (to the best of my knowledge): the Don José and the Rio Rita. The Marisla, one of the first live-aboard sport diving operations in the Sea of Cortez (if not anywhere), was damaged beyond reasonable repair in the summer of 2001, and will no longer be available for dive trips.
There are also some smaller operations running day trips on pangas to the most popular dive sites just north of La Paz.
Caution. If safety is one of your concerns as a diver, as it should be, then I would recommend that you make sure the operator of your panga is knowledgeable about diving techniques and problems. I`ve seen a few dangerous situations develop with divers going out in a panga with a single operator who, it would appear, knew nothing beyond being able to operate the outboard motor.
The prime diving season in this area is July-November. Generally, at this time the water is clearest (there may be exceptions depending on the amount of recent rainfall), and also the water is warmest. Nothing like diving in 85 degree water!
Location description: La Paz is a large city (180,000 population) and the capital of the state of Baja California Sur. Generally speaking, La Paz is not a tourist city. There are many hotels varying from resortish to very simple. The tourists who visit La Paz do so, for the most part, for the fishing and diving in the nearby islands.
While La Paz has a lovely waterfront with a beach running along it, the best swimming beaches are north of town and not where the hotels are located - with the exception of the Howard Johnson`s (formerly the La Concha), located about three miles north of the city center.
The city is quite old (450+ years since the first settlement) and some of the downtown areas are delightful. The ``Malecón`` is a sidewalk which follows the waterfront for several miles, and offers a wonderful place to walk in the evenings (most evenings have beautiful sunsets in La Paz - due to the clouds which are present most of the year and the fact that you look across the bay to the main peninsula mountains off to the west). On Sunday evenings the Malecón may be jammed with mostly young people participating in the ``promenade.`` Lots of places to eat.
There are lovely beaches some distance north of the city and accessible by good roads. Except on weekends they are generally deserted.

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Information about the Marisla, the Don Jos

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Baja California Sur
Mexico
Spoken language(s): English,Spanish
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 7 Arizona
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