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Hi all! Does anyone have any recent reviews of Turtle Inn in Belize - specifically about the dive op, the underwater environment, etc.? It sounds like a wonderful place, but I haven’t been able to find anything that focuses on the dive experience. Thanks in advance!

Anyone else experiencing this? I’m shooting with an EM-1 Mark 1 in Nauticam housing, no problems until this year. On some dives, the camera simply won’t turn on - black screen, as if the battery is dead. But the battery is fully charged - and I always test the connections and everything else...

Hi, all, looking for some guidance. I recently upgraded to. Shearwater Teric, and used the Shearwater Cloud app to sync the dives across my iPhone, iPad, and desktop Mac. I want to continue to use MacDive, which is my historical logbook. I want to load the edited dives from Shearwater Cloud...

Thanks to fantastic guidance from dozens of SBers, I purchased my first AI dive computer, the Shearwater Teric. It’d be incredibly valuable for me to see photos of how others have attached their transmitters - a short hose seems to be favored over directly connecting to the 1st stage, but I’d...

Hi all - I’m planning a trip to Anilao in the spring, specifically for macro photography. We’ll be staying at Aiyanar, which sounds great, from the reviews here. Does anyone have specific thoughts on Aiyanar’s house reef as a photo and exploration site? I’ve been spoiled by my frequent trips to...

Hi, all - here’s a stupidly basic question. Next month will mark my 35th anniversary of my PADI Open Water Certification. I never bothered to get AOW, and it never made a difference. I’ve been doing deep dives (100-120’), night dives, wreck dives almost from the beginning. Recently, some dive...

Hi, all - I'm planning a major dive computer upgrade, and I'd love to get some opinions and facts from the most knowledgeable group out there - actual Shearwater users. Here are the questions I'd love your thoughts on: 1. Other than form factors, is there a material difference between the...

Less tolerant of winter's cold each year, I took a last-minute plunge and booked a dive trip to Bonaire. My goal was simple: easy entry! I wanted to do lots of macro photography, I wanted to do it on my schedule, and i wanted to do it as often (or not) as I liked. Although I'd had mixed feelings...

This is a follow-up to my last post on macro photography sites on Bonaire. Anyone know any good critter spotters for hire on the island? I’m looking for someone who can do a few dives with me to look specifically for blennies, nudis, etc. Thanks in advance! (If you’re going first week in...

Hi, all - I've been to Bonaire twice, enjoyed the experience, but found myself not bowled over by the diving, relative to Saba, Cozumel, or my favorite U.S. site, Blue Heron Bridge. And this prompts my question. I'm most passionate about macro photography, hence my love for BHB in Fla. I have...

I posted this elsewhere, but wanted the Olympians to see it as well. I had a fantastic time diving BHB last weekend, for the first time in a year. Kudos to Pura Vida Divers - as ever, one of the great dive ops anywhere - and also to my expert guides and spotters, Andrea Whitaker and Jamie Cruce...

Hello, all - here’s a little question for Jack or Phil or anyone else in the know: On the Nauticam EM-1 housing, there’s a threaded socket on the top right that can take a small ball head. Do any of you use that for a focus/video light? Or do you use the cold shoe on the top center of the...

Thanks to great feedback from this group, I am going to do Mike Ball's 4-day GBR & Coral Sea liveaboard trip Aug. 27-31. The water's a bit cool for me, at 75 degrees F. What should I know about the boat, accommodations, staying comfortable in the water and in the air, crew, tipping, etc.? Also...

I posted this in the Australia forum, but I wanted to reach here for guidance, too. I've got a business trip scheduled to Sydney in late August. I'd been excitedly thinking about following it with a liveaboard out of Cairns, to the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. But then I saw the average...

I've got a business trip scheduled to Sydney in late August. I'd been excitedly thinking about following it with a four-day liveaboard out of Cairns, to the GBR and Coral Sea. But then I saw the average water temp is 75 degrees. I'm an 80+ degree diver, and I'm not ashamed to say it: I don't...

I travel a lot on business, occasionally to places near terrific diving. But I haven't been able to figure out a comfortable way to schlep my dive gear AND my photo gear AND my business-related stuff (laptop, decent clothing, etc.). Has anyone cracked this nut and figured out how to travel for...

I'm sheepish about asking this, but: I just got the much praised Nauticam housing for the EM-1. Setup went fine, except for one thing: The battery that powers the leak-detection system just doesn't want to fit. It's the CR-2450 flat battery, and there doesn't seem to be any way to fit it into...

I'm about ready to take my much-loved EM-1 underwater with me, and I'm impressed with Nauticam's setup. But I can't determine whether I should get the viewfinder, and if so, whether the 45 degree or the 180 degree. I can't find any advice on this, either. What experience have you all with...

I'm going solo - my eighth or ninth trip since I got certified there in (gulp!) 1984. If you happen to be stopping by, let me know. And if you haven't gone yet: Go. It's magical, and Sea Saba is a marvelous dive operation.

I just returned from an enjoyable trip to Bonaire (trip report is posted on that forum), and thought I'd post here some of the first photographic fruits from my evolved rig. I'm shooting with an Oly XZ-1 in the PT-050 housing. The main strobe is the Sea & Sea YS-D1; I'm using my older Oly UFL-1...