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Over the past weekend, we did a couple of dives at a cruise ship pier that's being built in the Northern Gulf of California and found this. We've never seen one of these and need some help identifying it. The base is 5 - 6.5 inches wide. It's some kind of anemone. Does anyone know what it is...

Perspectives vary and for what it's worth, here's mine. I'm a serious still photographer. Rather than worry about keeping up with a group of divers, I hire a private DM/guide. Sure, it costs more money to do this, but it has worked really well for me in Cozumel. I prefer to capture images of...

I don't see any evidence of the photograph being Photoshopped. It looks like a selfie composed to show the guy's broken tooth and the fish on the fillet table. The cap just has a lighter edge on the 'roll' because it's picking-up more sunlight. The guy's neck is missing because it's not in the...

Here's a thought. How about asking the dive op what they recommend and going with it? When I'm diving Cozumel, I use Tres Pelicanos exclusively. The operation is very professional and the DM's are quite competent. Dive profiles are multi level and surface intervals are routinely an hour or...

Interesting to read all of the different strategies posted here. Maybe my thinking isn't complicated enough, but I think I'd dive EAN 32, simply dive my computer, and watch my depths, dive times and surface intervals. Of course, I've always liked to keep things simple. Complicated is, well, too...

Pro Dive if you're wanting to look at Aqualung gear. -AZTinman

As mentioned by others, hiring a private DM or guide is a good way to avoid diving with a larger group. I've begun to do this frequently when I'm diving in areas where a DM or guide is required. For me, the additional cost is worth it and in all honesty diving someone who has familiarity with...

Oh yes, I forgot to mention something important should you decide to house your Nikon D7100. Get flood insurance! I carry a policy on all of my underwater camera equipment. Should you flood a housing, extra D7100/D7200 camera bodies are easy to find. -AZTinman

There are a lot of very well expressed perspectives and opinions here. For what it's worth, I'll add mine to the 'pot'. You already own a Nikon D7100 that works extremely well as a housed underwater camera. I used my housed D7100 until I replaced it with a D7200 body. Both the D7100 and D7200...

I've never been really too crazy about the port extension mounting system (four lock system) on my Ikelite housing, but I've never had any issues with it. Mine was originally used with a Nikon D7100 and it's currently being used with a Nikon D7200. Ikelite upgraded mine to allow use of both the...

Rocio Del Mar and Quino el Guardian are quality operations. One of my dive partners is close friends with the family that runs the boats. She's been out with them multiple times since they built and began running Rocio Del Mar. -AZTinman

Odds are pretty good that the casas on the beach are still there unless one of the hurricanes since then wiped them out. Prior to 2007, Bahia de Los Angeles was not connected to electrical power. Locals told me there was one generator in the village. Many of the businesses outside of the village...

If you haven't looked at the information in Milton S. Love's book Certainly More Than You Want to Know About The Fishes of The Pacific Coast A Postmodern Experience, the material on pages 28-29 might be worth a look. For what it's worth, water temperatures in the Bahia de Los Angeles were in...

Ricardo has a nice shop facility on the main road that goes into town right after the roundabout with the sails sculpture. This facility has the shop and a covered storage and maintenance area for his pangas. The yard is fenced and has a huge sign. It's worth noting that the Mexican government...

Ricardo's Dive Shop is the only dive shop that I know of in Bahia de Los Angeles and yes, the shop was open. One of the members of our group has a business relationship with Ricardo. We actually delivered fresh air filters for the tank refill compressor. Most of the air tanks we used had...

Recently returned from a week of diving at Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California Norte. The water tends to be green in the summer with plankton. It wasn't great for photography and limited visibility, but it did keep the whale sharks well-fed. It was an enjoyable trip. -AZTinman

I was in the Bahia de Los Angeles area a couple of weeks ago. We did multiple daily dives for a week and noted no evidence of horn sharks. This said, the species tends to be more active at night and the algae situation in the area is out of control. The bottom is literally covered with algae...

I received an alert concerning this thread when Azur posted a response today. Azur's post about finding horn sharks in the Loreto area is great information. The potential presence of horn sharks and the actual range of the species in the Gulf of California interests me. While I've never seen a...

Those Google people probably don't dive the La Jolla area much (LOL)! They obviously don't know the difference in a California sea lion and a harbor seal (LOL). -AZTinman

Well, mostly you’re right about the different manufacturers requiring use of their gears, port extensions and ports on their housings, but there are some independent port manufacturers that manufacture specific ports for specific housing manufacturers. Zen for example makes ports for several...