West End Diving’s “Maya Palms Resort” is Featured in Article in the May Issue of Sport Diver Magazine, titled “Mahahual Maverick"

(I-Newswire) March 22, 2010 - West End Diving’s Maya Palms Resort in Costa Maya (Mahahual) Mexico hosted Ty Sawyer the editorial director of Sport Diver Magazine. Ty Sawyer spent several days at Maya Palms Resort for a feature article to appear in Sport Diver Magazine. The article, titled ‘Mahahual Maverick” which is in the May issue and available now in your favorite dive center or newsstand.

Ty Sawyer came to the Maya Palms Resort to explore the virgin unexplored areas of the Meso American Barrier Reef. He found dive sites virtually untouched by man, just waiting to be explored by SCUBA enthusiasts. Dive sites so new that they don’t even have names, which gives the dive groups the opportunity to name their own dive site.

Ty Sawyer and crew with Sport Diver Magazine along with the dive staff at Maya Palms Resort, Doug, Ken and Mark explored areas of the reef known only to the Maya Palms Dive Staff and local fishermen. When leaving the Maya Palms Resort and headed out on the dive boat they saw the inner reef, the first of three rows of reef which is only 400 yards offshore and when looking back towards shore the secluded Maya Palms Resort.

The close proximity of the reef put most of the dive sites 5 to 15 minutes from shore. The Meso American Barrier Reef system is over 600 miles long, the largest reef in the northern hemisphere. The highlight of the first dive was the whale shark sighting, one of those rarities that most divers will never see. The successive dives were all done in virgin diving territory doing exploratory diving. It is rare to find a dive location and operation that can guarantee your dive boat will be the only one on the dive site, and that is just what Ty found. Along with plentiful virgin unexplored dive sites just a short distance from the resort.

The reef system is primarily spur and groove architecture with row after row of reef and formations that seemed to be untouched by man. These are some of the best and most pristine reefs the Sport Diver’s dive team has ever ventured upon with incredible fields of soft corals, gargantuan tube sponges, and layer after layer of mushroomed coral and then you come upon the forest of black coral at sixty feet. There was a huge Sea Ray that just hung out and let Ty get incredibly close to photograph it for at least 10 minutes and then there was another great photo op with a Sea Turtle. There were the schools of parrot fish, angle fish, trigger fish, trunk fish and grouper.

Ty spent several days diving with Doug Goergens one of the Owners of West End Diving’s Maya Palms Resort in the unexplored areas of the Meso American Barrier Reef. Doug and Catherine Goergens owners of West End Diving and the Maya Palms Resort have a truly incredible exclusive private resort with sea-side villas, palapas, a freshwater swimming pool, the temple of columns with hammocks beneath, and the 4 story tall pyramid, restaurant, bar and observation deck, all just minutes away from fantasic diving on virgin reefs.

Doug and Catherine Goergens not only owners and developers of West end Diving’s Maya Palms Resort but also own and developed the worlds largest freshwater diver resort. The fresh water resort is located in the middle of the USA and is known to divers throughout the world as Bonne Terre

About West End Diving:
West End Diving is the oldest dive center in the Midwest celebrating 50 years of service to the SCUBA diving community in 2010. West End Diving offers SCUBA instruction, sales and service of snorkeling and SCUBA diving equipment, photographic equipment, and travel services. West End Diving is also the owners, developers and operator of both Bonne Terre Mine “Billion Gallon Lake Resort” and the Maya Palms Resort. Bonne Terre Mine is the largest freshwater dive resort in the world with over 80 square miles of subterranean lake, 26 miles of navigable shore line all 150 feet beneath the surface of the earth. The Maya Palms Resort is located 4 hours south of Cancun in the last of the rustic Caribbean – “where the jungle kisses the sea”.

Company Contact Information
West End Diving
Doug Goergens
12464 Natural Bridge Road
63044
Phone : 314 209-7200