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I was at Stuart Cove's a few years ago when Shark Week was filming Shaquille O'Neal episodes. The crew told some stories about having to custom outfit Shaq. I believe they said that for fins, they took a pair of his sneakers and glued fin blades to the soles. And they cut up several wet suits to...

Look into Lion Dive resort on Curacao. On site excellent dive shop, house reef and excellent protected beach for non divers. A short walk along the beach takes you to Mambo Beach with assorted shops and several restaurant choices. Take a taxi into Willemstad for drinks on the waterway at...

You can inspect and try on the fins and wet suit to see if they fit. Search prices on line and 50% is reasonable if they are in good shape. I consider the BCD and regs to be life saving equipment and would want to take the BCD into the pool to be sure it didn't leak. Same with the dry suit. If...

I just dove in south florida with a number of divers who were using the MF2 . Their consensus was that it was designed for macro and not powerful enough for most wide angle shots. It should be adequate for shallow shots with some ambient light penetration. I personally used it for macro and...

We had a great week of diving the bridge, plus black water dive with PVD. We saw a guitar fish, nurse shark and a very large Southern Atlantic ray but were focused on the small stuff. As Pipehorse noted, there were lots of seahorses and frog fish. Some pics:

Went to the bridge for diving today and had the pleasure of meeting Pipehorse and thanked him for his extensive contributions to the diving community. Here’s a few of my pics:

I did it last fall and recommend it. Easy to ask when you arrive in GC.

What other people wear varies considerably based on their body type and individual tolerance for cold. More useful is knowing what the water temps are, and knowing your own exposure gear for those temps. I have been on dives where one person is in a rash guard and board shorts, I have a 3 mil...

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If you want diving, I agree that Isla is very limited. Cozumel is the place to go . Lots of options. Primarily drift dives. You might like cenote diving on the mainland, south of Playa del Carmen. You can stay on Coz and take the ferry across to do cenotes as a day trip, or relocate to the mainland.

Bonaire:

This thread seems to have morphed into a general discussion of BON diving, so here goes: Just back from our most recent trip to BON. In the past we have stayed at Capt Don's (won't go back), Buddy (fine), Harbor Village (outstanding). This time we rented a VRBO near Windsock (also outstanding)...

Try a shore dive at Cas Abao

My 2 cents: The recommended books are great, but no substitute for time shooting underwater. Another instructor to consider is Cathy Church at Sunset House, Grand Cayman. I would repeat and summarize the above comments on technique as: get low, get close, get as much light as you can on the...

Its unfortunate that COZ dive ops can't organize a consistent solution to Nortes closing the west side port. Yes, there are some ops who will go east, but capacity is limited at best. And the east side looks like it has some promising shore dives as well as boat accessible sites. The last winter...

I don't know Marelux, but I can suggest two other housings you might consider. I have used the Sea and Sea housing for the A7R3 for several years and have been very happy with it, and my buddy shoots a Nikon in an Ikelite housing. Both housings have held up well.

There are several companies making adapters to use Nikon (or Canon) lenses on the SONY E mount. Just search on B and H or another site for a list. My own experience shooting Canon lenses on SONY is that image quality can be super, but AF is slower than with native SONY glass. One other concern...

For wide angle I shoot Canon 15 mm f2.8 on mc11 adapter in dome port. SONY underwater WA lens choices are varied and not as much of a consensus choice as is the 90 for macro. You might want to check out Alex Mustard’s YouTube vids. He recently adopted the A7Rv after years of shooting Nikon.

I shoot A7 R3 in Sea and Sea housing. Sony 90 mm macro is the lens u want. Friends also use Ikelite housing at a much cheaper price point. Personally, I don’t see Nauticam as good value. Save money for good strobes. Smaller form factor of other camera bodies becomes nonfactor when you put...