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.

您此行的高光时刻: Ten-meter coral towers, easy warm-up drift, turtles and angelfish, sunlit sand channels.

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

水流: Usually a gentle one-way glide; can pick up without notice.

入水方式: Live-drop drift; the boat follows your bubbles and collects the group downcurrent.

危险因素: Boat traffic at the surface and occasional current acceleration; carry a surface marker.

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

高氧（Nitrox）: 在此值得使用——各潜点深度落在富氧空气（nitrox）能有效延长免减压时间的区间（前提是持有相应认证）。