Palancar Gardens

Palancar Gardens is the gentlest chapter of Cozumel's most famous reef, a run of coral towers that rise ten meters and more off a bright sand floor. The current sets the pace while you weave between buttresses stacked with star coral, rope sponges, and fans, ducking through the occasional cut where angelfish hold territory. Turtles graze the tops, nurse sharks wedge under ledges, and the sand channels give new drift divers room to sort themselves out. It photographs like a postcard on any sunny day.

その瞬間のために: Ten-meter coral towers, easy warm-up drift, turtles and angelfish, sunlit sand channels.

地形: Coral buttresses and pinnacles separated by white-sand channels, dropping toward the outer slope.

流れ（カレント）: Usually a gentle one-way glide; can pick up without notice.

エントリー: Live-drop drift; the boat follows your bubbles and collects the group downcurrent.

危険生物・リスク: Boat traffic at the surface and occasional current acceleration; carry a surface marker.

保全: Inside the Arrecifes de Cozumel marine park; no gloves, no touching, park bracelet required.

ナイトロックス: ここでは効果的です——このエリアのプロファイルは、ナイトロックスが無減圧潜水時間を有意に延ばせる水深帯にあります（適切なトレーニングを受けていることが前提です）。