About Us

Flamingo Diversis a fully established business with many years of experience providing diving services in the area of Cozumel.

Along with the Flamingo Hotel Cozumel we are able to provide end to end service for our diving guests.

We just renewed or boat, The Swordfish, a 45 feet boat specially conditioned to safely and confortable provide diving services and the other aquatic activities we provide. Its a clean and ample vesel with all the facilities and safty meassures for an amazing diving experience.

Our diving staff is composed of diving professionals with a large experice in the Cozumel Reefs area.


Meet the Owners

Paul Ellis

Paul Ellis grew up in North Carolina and graduated from Wake Forest University.

Paul is the president and founder of Swim For The Reef, Inc., a U.S.A.-based, international non-profit environmental organization, whose mission is gaining knowledge about, and protection of, the coral reef systems of the world.

Paul Ellis has been an active scuba diver since 1974 and a is a certified PADI Divemaster

To raise world awareness and to help facilitate education related to these complex ocean/shore issues, Paul Ellis spent five years in training as preparation for an ultimately successful, forty-mile, 14.5-hour, open water swim across the Yucatan Channel between the island of Cozumel and the mainland city of Cancun, Mexico, which was accomplished in August of 2004

After his successfull swim, Paul moved to Cozumel as a permanet resident.

Thomas Fryer

Tom grew up in California near the San Francisco area.

He is the owner of the Flamingo Hotel Cozumel, a beautiful boutique hotel in downtown Cozumel. The Flamingo Hotel Cozumel has been operating in the island for more than 20 years and was just completely renovated for the benefit of our guests.

An avid and experienced diver he enjoys making bubbles around the reefs of the world, but specially in Cozumel.

Tom is well known in the community of Cozumel.

Sergio Sandoval

Segio has been involved in the diving business since he was a little child.

Son of one of Cozumel's legendary divers, Sergio had the opportunity to dive with some of the world’s best divers in the world like SCUBA pioneers Jean Michael Cousteau and Ramon Bravo.

Sergio has been diving professionally the Cozumel Reefs for more that thirty years.