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My memories of weight belts are almost all bad--uncomfortable at best, one more thing to put on and take off, always slipping down my hips, the weights themselves always shifting on the belt, the crappy rental buckles coming undone. The one time I ever lost weights was with a rental weight belt...

Rafael, Your point is very well taken, and I apologize for any insult to the Mexicans. Mexico and its people are tops--really grand--but the hotels and tourists in Cancun send me running quickly away. Manta is a great operation--but even when I was doing my cert. dives with them I stayed on...

Very true, but IMO Eilat is the Israeli Cancun. Diving in Eilat itself can be a little grim, too--the coral has been smashed to pieces, I think mostly as the direct result of the high volume of overweighted OW students processed there. However, if you hop across the border to Aqaba it's a...

Try this book: A Shore Diving Guide to New England, by Jerry Shine. www.bluespherepubs.com Also have a look at the web site of the New England Aquarium Dive Club. Great way to start familiarizing yourself! www.neadc.org

I live in Boston, but when I was in Sydney last year on business I arranged a couple of great dives with Abyss Scuba Diving, in Ramsgate. It's a very professional operation and I know that they have an active club with many local dives weekly. Enjoy! www.abyss.com.au

I'm spending the long 4th of July weekend in York Beach with my non-diving family and had been planning on a July 2 Isles of Shoals dives with Captain Rob out of Rye. That's scratched, as I see. I would still love to dive one of the days I'm up there--can anyone recommend an operator or shop...

After my first few boat dives I followed everyone's advice and bought a mouth-inflated, 3-ft safety sausage. I now carry it with me but have never yet had cause to use it. I'm getting the impression, from things I read here and elsewhere, that these are considered inferior, and that what I...

That's what I have and that's where I got them. My experience is pretty limited, but I plan on using them forever.

53 degrees off Niles Beach in Gloucester Harbor yesterday. That was the temperature of both the water and the air.

I finally got to try out my new Worthington HP100s yesteday on an nasty day off Cape Ann, MA. It was a shallow (under 20') dive, and I wasn't sure what the buoyancy would be like, so I used the amount of weight that was just barely enough last summer with AL80s--26 pounds. I went down like a...

I thought LP stood for LeisurePro. Learn something new every day.

The lack of a factory warranty is not a problem--until it is a problem. I have had the bad luck to need to replace my Veo200 twice under the original warranty. After about 40 dives the display faded to the point where I couldn' read anything. The LDS replaced it on the spot, no questions asked...

Better yet, take the nonstop bus from the airport to PDC and save a ton--it's $6 each way. Taxis are quite cheap once you're in Playa. Transport to Cozumel, of course, is by boat so a rental car is irrelevant. Have a look at this web site for transportation information. Also, the web site is...

Oceanic recently replaced my Veo 200 under warranty after the previous one leaked and blew out—thanks, guys, for that. When I downloaded my first 6 dives on the new Veo 200 into my existing OceanLog log, it worked quickly and efficiently, but is producing a new series of headaches none the...

Also, Dive Provo is right next door to the Comfort Inn--although, as others have noted, any of the dive ops will come pick you up. The boats, as I discovered, aren't necessarily anywhere near the shops so you'll most likely be on a shuttle bus sooner or later. I stayed in an area called...

Sure--lots. The reef is not as spectacular as Cozumel (and Cozumel is an easy day trip) but there is a lot of marine life--lots of turtles, octopi, great variety of fish. Easy dives, short boat trips, also cenotes--but I'll defer to those who have actually done them. Try Abyss Dive Shop...

Are there any dive operations on Isla Holbox? ...

Ken, Aha! The nickel just dropped. Do you have a link you could post or send me, perhaps? Would definitely be interested. Joe

Yes. Unfortunately, so have the cruise lines, which dock there regularly.