Any good diving in Puerto Vallarta Mex

[I ate nemo]

Im going to PV in two weeks for a wedding and hopefully my mom will let me go diving. Are there any good dives there? Who should I dive with?

[CompuDude]

As a newer diver, I'd stick with an established Dive Op.

I had some fun dives with Chico's Dive Shop. The diving is not truly spectacular there, but it can be nice. Night dives are actually really good, but you need enough people wanting one for them to decide to schedule one.

[Chocoholic]

Check out Pacific Scuba, they have a six pack boat and pay attention to people's skill level. The dives around Puerto Vallarta are out into the bay a ways, 30 mins is the closest dive site and that is Los Arcos. I liked Las Marietas islands (about an hour out), it was beautiful. That said the diving in PV is nice (not fabulous but nice), lots of fish, rays, lots of eels, puffers, but not that much soft coral and just ok visibility. The water will most likely be in the high 60's to low 70's. Have fun.

[Chocoholic]

I would stay away from Vallarta Adventures, they don't seem that organized, have a very large group of divers and a low ratio of DM's to divers. They have to tailor the dive to the less experienced divers so it cuts the dives way short and you spend most of your time waiting for them to get everyone organized and underwater at the same time.

[68raggtop]

I have been out with several ops in PV and the last time was with Nacho from My Homepage
Nacho and Leslie do small groups (and even singles if needed) and go where you want to go. I went to Chimo with Nacho in November and was impressed with the the way he interviewed me the day before we were going to dive. He was one of the best ops I have used, and will use him next time as well. I have used Pacific Scuba before also and they were good as well. I also went out with Vallarta Adventures, which is a cattle boat on the Marietes Islands dives. If you do some of the other dives like El Moro, it is a smaller boat but they only do it one or two days a week.