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If the Grand to Little flight you need is available I wouldn't wait too long. The afternoon flights on Saturday after the incoming international flights tend to fill up.

I prefer to dive first. If I eat first I get lazy and crawling into a warm dry bed starts to be too appealing.

I would check into flying in and out of Cebu. Closer to your destinations and generally less painful than Manila, assuming they have the domestic flights you need. Or I think you could actually do ferries.

You planning on checking this or taking it through security? After my 3 trips to the Philippines all I can say is whatever the official rules are, they doesn't necessarily matter. (And even if a blade is small enough, if it has other tools, security usually isn't happy about that either.) If...

The Aquacat is very stable and an excellent operation. Actually stable enough that it might not give you a good reading of how you will fare on a monohull like the T&C Explorer. You could always start with Aquacat then try the other. :) Aquacat is quite popular and tends to get booked far...

It's rather had to predict weather and conditions enough to pick a best time. Feb is still winter, such as it, and seems more likely to be windy than summer. (Assuming no hurricane...) I would expect odds of less wind are better later in your window.

It’s too long of an open water crossing for any dive op to do this regularly in their boats. Even the much larger Aggressor liveaboard doesn’t always make the crossing because sometimes it’s just too snarky. I was actually surprised when I saw Ocean Frontiers was doing it at all just because of...

Keep in mind you probably won’t get to pick the sites to dive. You can make requests, as can the other divers on board. And the crew may try to take requests into account, but will also be looking at where conditions are better, what dives they know are best, and where they haven’t already taken...

As far as being able to do other things, I am a huge fan of extending a liveaboard trip by staying on land at least a night before and several nights after the boat. Before lets you start to chill, possibly fly at a more civilized hour, and reduce any chance of missing the boat or luggage...

Where are you staying?

Everyone is right, you shouldn’t take the chance especially given dehydration and fatigue already in evidence. It’s breaking the guidelines no matter how you try to tell yourself otherwise. The ”emergency exit” (I assume ascent?) may or may not matter, certainly doesn’t help. But interesting...

It does have a sleeve. Perhaps there was an earlier version that did not. The Amazon listing shows it in one of the pics but the video does not. One thing I did see a few complaints about in reviews was the shoulder strap is lame. And it is, somewhat slippery and uncomfortable webbing, with a...

They came with our new regs years back. I think I found the bit against the roof of my mouth distracting/uncomfortable. I know some people love them, not sure there is a way to predict without trying.

I brlieve my Suunto is also when a new series starts, which I think is when the no fly time clears. So less than 24 hours, like if I do 2 morning dives ending around noon, then go to do 2 the next morning at 9am, it will have cleared and reset the gas. I know to watch out for that, but so...

i was thinking of getting a moldable. My husband has the original Seacure and it’s too big for me. I see they’re now selling the “X” version thats supposed to be less likely to make you gag. I don’t know how long that’s been out and am wondering if it would work for someone with a smaller mouth...

I don’t think anyone is “relying” on auto changes. They want to make sure there won’t be any. (Probably best to confirm things like that before buying though?) I’ve had Suuntos forever that do that stupid thing, changing the Nitrox % on you after awhile. Along with a couple other stupid things...

Well of course its subjective. It’s all about what matters to someone. And sometimes food is one of the deciding factors. Talking about the diving aspects of a place does not mean you can’t talk about other things. Kinda handy to have in one place. (Oh, wait, when it comes to CCV its only...

When we were there that surf & turf was lousy. Attempt at fancy for the sake of it but not actually any good. Wasn’t necessarily ingredients. They did much better when they cooked local food. Would have been better if they stuck to that. Too many bad attempts at “american” food. Salad bar was...

I'd expect you would see more big stuff in T&C, especially sharks. I wasn't impressed at all with the diving around St Kitts, and Saba didn't go well for us. (They had recently dredged the harbor at Saba and much area around it was covered in silt, conditions were poor and didn't allow much...

We were on Little a few weeks ago. Temps running 84-86. Some bleaching but a DM there said he thought it was recovering - though he wasn't sure if that was true or he was just trying to convince himself. Sometimes a lot of algae like that appears on Little, and I'm told it tends to disappear...