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Sorry, it’s sold. I thought I had updated the post.

Jason....did you do a 2 tank afternoon trip? We just booked The Reef at the Atlantis for early June and it is primarily a family trip with 13 and 10 year olds, but I am wanting to spend a day doing some diving and am seriously considering doing the shark dive with Stuart Cove's. What were the...

Thanks for that link. Looks like cruisers are in every damn day! I hate cruisers! They are like locusts....ruining so many nice spots. The only a-holes we ecountered in Grand Turk were cruisers. :mad: Maybe we will just have to only go to Little Cayman or Brac from now on! lol

What is your U/W camera setup? Nice pics.

As a parent of 2 young-ish boys, and someone who has been to Coz twice, I would absolutely pick Iberostar over Villa Aldora. And I love Aldora Divers! We stayed at the Occidental last summer with our boys (13 &10) and they loved it. I will say that the Occidental was definitely NOT what it...

Howdy all, I just booked 10 nights at the Reef for us June 4-14. I know our boys (13 & 10 y/o) are going to love the water park and aquarium activities. This is a true family vacation, not a dive trip but I would like to get in a 2 tank excursion while there just to check it off the list and...

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We just stayed 18 nights at Occidental and depending on how long you are staying, I would only recommend it for shorter stays due to the AI buffet food definitely NOT being what it was when we stayed there almost 14 years ago (the usual answer now is to blame Covid, right?? lol). Breakfast was...

So you want to compare rec to tech?? lol Sorry, I don't want/need a babysitter and I want to dive my own computer and not be restricted on bottom time with blanket rules tailored to the lowest common denominator. I am most certainly NOT unsafe! Is that what you're implying?

I just don't know where to start. You obviously haven't read everything I've posted, or reading comprehension just isn't your strong suit. I've already stated I'm a former instructor. I've been a fireman for going on 25 years. Obviously I know the difference between being safe and using...

Getting back on track here, they now have 117s but it looks like their website still states 120s. I first tried the steel 100s on day 1 but realized I might be cutting it close with the other guys on the boat. They were all excellent divers with great air consumption so I didn't want to be...

As an experienced instructor, I would never have considered telling (insulting) another experienced instructor that they need to do a pool dive. Doesn't matter if they are current or former. I'm guessing you have also never worked in the industry like the other safety Nancy piping in here?? I...

Exactly!! Absolutely they all tie in together. Plus, if you see me in person, I have the appearance of a very physically fit, athletic person. You know, coupled with my experience I was trying to relate to that bonehead, one could safely assume that I would much more competent than the lard...

backprop, So now you say you would have let it go after seeing an instructor card but before you were basically calling me a crazy whiner for thinking I shouldn't have to make a pool dive?? Again, my point was that he was still asking me to make a pool checkout dive AFTER I told him I had made...

tridacna, Thanks for agreeing with my point! Pro Dive definitely looked like a mess and so did most of the divers using them!

OK backprop, I'll explain further since you didn't quote my full statement and you possibly can't grasp the concept of the similarities between SCUBA and SCBA. My full statement about not using nitrox before was: "I had never decided to do nitrox because my air consumption has always been...

Dan, Have you ever worked as a DM/instructor? When I was "still in the biz" I would have never asked an experienced current or former instructor to do a pool dive even after 4 years of no diving (insulting IMO). Do you honestly think that after certifying to that level and having experience...

I'm not sure how you were getting 100' vis everyday...We were there June 1-19 and all of my dives and all of the snorkeling I did with the wife and kids I was thinking how disappointing the vis was! Heck, the vis in front of the Occidental was maybe 10' on a good day! All of my dives were down...

All 14 of my dives from June 4-18 were between 80-83 on my Oceanic Pro plus 4. I wore a 2mil farmer john with a L/S rash guard and I was getting warm, scooping water into the top of the farmer john at the last half of the dives. But then again, I always dived So Cal with no hood! lol...I was...

Howdy all I'm going to post reports about our trip and will just post about the diving in this thread. I will post about the Occidental in a separate post to give some info about that part of the trip and our experience getting our oldest son an emergency appendectomy while in Cozumel! :oops...