Feb 2, I dove again with Nautilus/Scuba Freds. I got certified on a referral dive deal a year ago, with Octavio as my instructor, and wanted to go with him again this year, but due to his popularity, he was booked up, so Clemente was our dive master. My dive partner for the day was a novice, and did the Discover Scuba class, which I did also, as a brush up and re-instill some practices that needed honing......We went out to Chitales reef, and the Remedio area, north of Punta Cancun....25-35 deep, nothing significant, but there was a lot of sea life to see! We encountered a nice sized ray, a 4 ft nurse shark, a 2 foot sea turtle, and hundreds of other fish.....
Clemente was working both a still camera in an underwater housing, and a video.....both had great shots when he showed it to us, but me being cheap, did not him up on the offer......he was a good tour guide, and when he saw something of interest, he got us to look in on it....we had a blast, and will use them the next time in Cancun for sure!

I dove with Nautilus on Monday, January 26th. Octavio picked me up at my resort and then we made one more stop to pick up another 2 divers that were going to dive with us. Octavio discussed with us our options since the winds were high and the water would be rough at the wreck. Octavio let us decide which dives we wanted to do based on our comfort level and the current conditions. Despite the rough water, we decided to tough it out and do the 1st dive at the wreck - great decision! Hovering 5' above the deck of the wreck were about 15-20 spotted eagle rays! As we made our way over to the other end of the wreck, Octavio pointed out another 25-30 spotted eagle rays hovering in the current just above the bottom. He also pointed out a shark in the distance hovering in the current. Each dive, Octavio went through the complete dive plan, explained what to expect to see and reviewed hand signals to alert us to some of the marine life we would see.

Being more of a novice diver, Octavio was very helpful with hints to make the dive more enjoyable as well aiding with my boyancy control.

I had my own equipment; however, the other 2 divers used Nautilus' equipment. During both dives, there were no issues with the equipment at all. In fact, one of the other divers was having trouble with her own personal mask. Octavio had an extra mask on the boat which made her dive a better experience.

Thanks Octavio, I will be back!

My 15 year old son and I enjoyed scuba so much that we can't wait to go back ! Fred and Octavio were fantastic. They were both so nice and made sure we had a wonderful first experience. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate and we couldn't go back for a second time, but we will definitely call Octavio again when we return to Cancun.

My Partner and I had a terrible experience at this location. My Boyfriend and I are PADI certified open water divers.

My partner nearly lost his life on our first dive with Scuba Fred's Nautilus Diving in Cancun, due to faulty equipment and a series of negligence by this outfit.

His air guage read 2800 before the dive. After a time underwater, the guage dropped suddenly from 1500 to 750 and at that reading, he suddently had absolutely NO AIR - with no guage to warn him. The depth was nearly 80 feet. The divemaster had checked it moments before and there was no indication that air was low.

His goggles also leaked the entire dive and later when our dive master used them.

He began drowning and swallowing water, lost his vision and became dizzy but he was able to reach another diver and use his octopus, but within 4 breaths that diver's air was dangerously low. He left him and found a divemaster who saw his signal of no air and pushed his own respirator towards him, but the hose fell off the divemasters' tank and he was unable to reconnect. They made an emergency ascent using only 1 respirator by buddy breathing to the surface.

At the beginning of our dive, I asked for my usual weight and they did not have enough, so when I tried to descend, I was unable too, and my divemaster aborted the dive and we tried again with heavier weights. They did not have enough weights on board the boat to accomodate everyone.

After we completed this dive and my partner was taken to the surface and recovered, we decided to dive again, in order not to be scared away from diving forever. This dive wasn't much better!

Our divemaster used the goggles previously used by my partner and they leaked continuously, and she gave me her extra weights in order for me to dive properly but it left her without enough, she thought that she could maintain her dive with less weights, but her equipment (supplied by Scuba Fred's) was also defective and her BCD began inflating and she was losing air and she just popped up to the surface, involuntarily. Leaving my partner and I confused at the bottom and alone - of ocurse we then had to abort our dive and safely ascend, using our dive computer for a safe stop.

This experience was the worst ever, and all because of a series of defective pieces of equipment and missing weights for the dive.

I would never recommend this company and I would never use them again.

The individual divemasters were OK and without one of them sharing air, my partner would most certainly be dead. But I remain really upset with Fred the owner of the dive company who didn't even apologize or acknowledge what happened.

This happened because of defective equipment and negligence.