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Try diving with Ocean Frontiers www.oceanfrontiers.com out of the East End for at least one day of diving. It's an hour's drive from Seven Mile Beach to their dive shop (ask about their courtesy shuttle), but the East End experience is different from the West. East End diving is exciting, the...

I'm in the market for a one-day trip to the Channel Islands this summer. I've read that Santa Barbara is a great dive spot because of the sea lion colony there, but that the best time to dive there is October because that's when the juvenile sea lions are taking to the water. Is the sea lion...

From what I heard, the dive has an 80% success rate, so you have to have some pretty dumb luck to miss them. So far the manta ray dive is my #1 of all time :D

Dolphin dives? Do you mean wild dolphins or the theme park thing?

Thanks for all of your help, I appreciate it.

How's the language barrier? I've heard that not many people in FP know English, and I can't speak a word of French.

I hope no one was hurt!

If you're worried about getting a reaction to thimble jellies, I recommend using Safe Sea brand Sunscreen http://www.nidaria.com/, it's designed to help fend off the little buggers. Where in the Caymans are you going?

Wow, thanks for your help! What kind of marine life do you get there?

You'd probably need two days before summiting Mauna Kea (13,000 feet), the tall dormant one. The elevation at the active volcano, Kiluea is much less but you have to drive through 6,000 foot elevations to get there. I'd honestly reccommend skipping the volcano and doing Hawaii Forest and Trail's...

I'm thinking of a possible South Pacific trip in 07' and am looking for somewhere accessible from LAX that would be good for a not-just-diving trip. I've heard both really good an really bad reviews about Moorea. Just out of curiosity, does anyone think Moorea (or anywhere else in the Society...

www.hawaiiforestandtrail.com. nuff said

Why, did they shut down? I dove with them a year ago, so I have no new info. I wasn't aware they ever shut down.

Dive Bliss www.divebliss.com is good. They do wreck alley trips as well as the Coronados and occaisonally do day trips as far afield as San Clemente and Catalina (at least according to their website). I've dove Catalina with another (Orange County) op before imho it's a must dive for Southern...

I have to ask, is this stuff useful only when diving in a wetsuite, or would it protect your whole body if you dive in swim trunks only?

I heard about sea lice, only after getting suckered into booking my trip though. There are certain sunscreens (Sea Safe brand comes to mind) that keep sea lice from stinging, I'm hoping that will suffice.

I've never been to the Caribbean, but I after doing some of my own vacation planning, this is what I've found. There are several Caribbean destinations that are worth considering. Grand Cayman, a British island south of Jamaica is supposed to be great, I'm going there this April. A lot of...

Blue Hawaiian suffered a crash in 2000. I guess no standards are perfect

I decided to post the question after reading a lot of trip reports for Taveuni, Fiji. I'm not going there any time soon (the only dive trip in my forseeable future is to very civilized and very beautiful Grand Cayman :D ), but it is a destination I'm considering for 2-3 years down the road. I'm...

What about in a developing country?