When we stopped for a surface interval we spent most of our time diving off the flying bridge or throwing each other into the ocean. We even got the divemaster to do a swan dive off the roof. When it came to diving though, we were all very professional. When John and I went on another boat to do a night dive, the divemaster was surprised that we were both geared up and ready to jump in as soon as the boat stopped. The diving in Cozumel is spectacular.
Many articles say the reefs are dived so much that they are destroyed.
I did not see this to be the case. True, most of the sea fans are gone, but the coral seems healthy and the fish life was tremendous. We constantly saw large black groupers, huge angelfish, snappers, eels, etc. We saw several sharks too. On one memorable trip we saw a pod of dolphins which came and swam with the boat most of the way to the dive site.