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What kind of ship is this? MG Y DREAM KEEPER (MMSI: 548830500) is a Pleasure Craft and is sailing under the flag of Philippines. Her length overall (LOA) is 39 meters and her width is 9 meters.

Too bad about the Marriott. We've only stayed there one night ever, but eaten a number of times and the restaurants used to be pretty good, if resort over-priced. CSS always had a good rep and used to be at the Marriott, until the resort shut down for years for renovations. There was a great...

We also enjoyed Kura Hulanda a few times, was nice while it lasted. The place I really miss is the former Habitat at Coral Estate. Looks like the resort itself, which had been falling apart, is much improved now. But the dive ops since Habitat have been erratic about having/running a dive...

Has nothing to do with needing crutches, you're insulting people who simply have different preferences than you. A resort where I can stroll to the boat or jump off the dock is way more relaxing to me than dragging my crap all over the island, and well worth it to me. If that's not what you...

They specifically asked for boat diving. Some people (including me) prefer it. ~~~~~~~~~~ This is a little tricky. There used to be some real dive resorts on Curacao with boat diving, on site shore diving, and a generally similar experience, but several have disappeared over the years. There...

I think my first BC was a red finseal, bought in 1989. I replaced it after a couple years because it never fit me well and had no adjustability. It sat in the closet for some years until I discovered it didn’t hold air well anymore. I’d be leery of buying a BC that old.

Yikes. Mine weren't born in CA, don't recall where, but probably around the same time frame. I don't think the guy I got them from was so large scale. At least he appeared to be alone in the boonies and not close to anyone. Was glad I had not gone there alone...

I got mine cheap from some guy selling them on craigslist. Appeared to be a regular side gig where he was melting and molding lead scrap in his yard. (Also appeared that he'd inhaled way too much of the fumes over the years.)

We've done Ocean Hunter (but 8 years ago) and Palau Aggressor II (way longer ago.) Both were great trips. Aggressor in general seems to have its issues, in that Aggressor Fleet has little to do with the quality of a trip with one of their franchisees and your results depend on the...

I disagree with most of the original post. Scubaboard is full of statements where people think they know what is best for everyone, this is just another.

https://www.caymancompass.com/2023/04/25/little-caymans-pirates-point-resort-for-sale-for-us7-5-million/

If you care mostly about the diving and have no compelling reason to stay on land (like a non-diving partner who insists) it’s definitely a good place to do liveaboard. You’ll get in a lot more diving without the long day boat trips. Topside does have nice beaches and good restaurants, but I did...

I don’t understand this. There’s like hundreds of resorts in the DR.

I have assorted lavacore, sharkskin, and old darlexx or something. Its pretty neutral I would expect a 3mm neoprene to require more weight. Despite what the marketing says I think 3mm neoprene is warmer, at least until it gets beat and squished. But I like lavacore and it’s warm enough for me...

That's an interesting theory. When we first started going to Curacao it wasn't nearly as popular with US visitors and the diving wasn't as well known. The boat diving was more obvious, the shore diving options were either less developed, or less known to visitors, or probably both...

And Dreams Curacao is an old Hilton that long had a general rep for being crappy (we never stayed but ate there once and wandered around, and wasn't impressed but that was long ago. Not sure how much they changed before it reopened as Dreams. I'm thinking Zoetry is probably pretty nice.

So which are your hotel options on Curacao? Ocean Encounters is the big op on the island, they’re good. They have a location at Sunscape and there is shore diving there. I think their boats used to pick up at some other resorts but not sure nowadays. Theres a popular op called the Dive Bus...

Very helpful to clarify what the deal is with the all-inclusives. Many of the AIs liked by divers such as on Little Cayman or Brac, Turneffe in Belize, tend to be smaller, remotish, non-chain, not the sort that offer fitness classes. They’re all about room+meals+diving - not all kinds of other...

Even if they try to soft-pedal things a bit, I don’t think its that they don’t want to do anything or would be more inspired by tourist cancellations. Sure sounds they’re doing stuff and calling in other countries. But it took a Japanese ROV just to exactly locate the tanker and it’s below 1000...

Yeah, no. Their oceanfront property values aren’t going to drop. Maybe from a freak hurricane trashing the place but not this.