Como les comentaba de como incio el buceo en Cabo en los 80s , fue una epoca excepcional , no habia tanta construccion , en ese entonces me invitaron a trabajar con la compania de Cabo Acuadeportes quienes los propietraios eran de Chicago Molly y John Fox tambien eran Instructores de PADI y YMCA , y como el nombre lo dice ofrecian todo lo relacionado a las actividades acuaticas , pero el buceo con tanque era el objetivo de atraer buzos de todo el mundo a este destino , asi que hicieron un curso de buceo para varios de nosotros como fue Juan Gurrula , Miguel Alighieri , Marco Torres entre otros , llegamos a certificarnos para ser los guias del Centro de Buceo , tambien aprendimos a velear , a remar en canoas , snorkeling , avistamiento de ballenas etc , y Amigos del Mar tenia sus propios guias como Manolo Metaca , Jose Luis Sanchez y Paco Silva pero quien tenia toda la experiencia era nuestro amigo Manolo Metaca era Instructor de la FEMAS, quien esos tiempos buceaba al coral negro , que se encontraba a grandes profundidades era un experto en buceo profundo , fue nuestro maestro de buceo ,buceaba solo algunas veces hasta mas de 80 metros , pero eso si muy profesional , cuando nos llevaba a bucear profundo siempre nos decia que durmieramos bien y no tomaramos alchol , y usabamos las tablas de buceo de la US NAVY de Estados Unidos , asi fue como exploramos el cayon submarino que hay en Cabo San Lucas , las cascadas de arena , la pared norte donde nos enseno el ultimo arbol de coral que por desicion de los buzos de coral negro , dejaron ahi , y esta enorme quiere decir que problamente minimo un siglo de anios , Manolo Metaca fue el primer Guia e Instructor de Buceo recreativo en Cabo San Lucas.
As I mentioned how diving started in Cabo in the 80s, it was an exceptional time, there was not so much construction, at that time I was invited to work with the company of Cabo Acuadeportes who were the owners of Chicago Molly and John Fox were also instructors of PADI and YMCA, and as the name says it offered everything related to water activities, but diving with a tank was the goal of attracting divers from around the world to this destination, so they did a diving course for several of us as it was Juan Gurrula, Miguel Alighieri, Marco Torres among others, we got to certify ourselves to be the guides of the Diving Center, we also learned to sail, to row in canoes, snorkeling, whale watching etc, and Friends of the Sea had their own guides as Manolo Metaca, Jose Luis Sanchez and Paco Silva but who had all the experience was our friend Manolo Metaca was an Instructor of the FEMAS, who during those times dived into the black coral, he was at great depths he was an expert in deep diving, he was our diving master, he dived only sometimes up to more than 80 meters, but that if very professional, when he took us deep diving he always told us to sleep well and not drink alchol , and we used the dive tables of the US NAVY in the United States, that’s how we explored the submarine cayon that is in Cabo San Lucas, the sand waterfalls, the northern wall where the last coral tree showed us that by desicion of the divers of black coral, left there, and this enormous means that probably a minimum of a century of years, Manolo Metaca was the first guide and instructor of recreational diving in Cabo San Lucas.
