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Hi All! First time to Hawaii and Maui. Trying to sneak a post COVID kid free mini dive trip on miles sales tickets to Maui for mid September for 4 nights. About us: late 30s/early 40s couple. We have about 120 dives, AOW and Nitrox but haven't been in the ocean since COVID, but do keep skills...

Looking ahead to a dive trip next year. We have been to Bonaire 3 times, BVI side trip and the Phillipines once. Before we were divers we went to Mexico, Belize, Jamaica, & Roatan as snorkelers. We are AOW and have a hundred and dozen or so dives. We have a will be 3 & 5 year old in tow and a...

Hi Guys! Departing from Denver, CO... I have been out of the water too long. For better or worse decided last year to move instead of a dive trip and now its been three years since we have been diving (minus the pool). We were really hoping to plan something this fall but with the pandemic...

Hi Guys, Looking for dive ops/ schedule suggestions for Maui with an almost two year old a non diving mother in law. She likes seafood, scenery, shopping, and hiking, also she would love to see breaching whales. Hoping to be on Maui 7-10 days thinking March 2018. We have slightly over...

Picked up our regs for a trip in two weeks last night. We did a Scuba Review/Refresher Pool Class immediately after pickup. My reg seemed fine, maybe a little too free flowing, (I need to educate myself on ip). However, on the way home hubby said his reg had an intermittent stutter. The dive...

Hi Guys, We have a Newark connection this time around and wanted to know if you have an overnight layover, does United/Newark keep your luggage overnight automatically or are you expected to pick it up in Newark and recheck it in the morning to head to Bonaire? Do you have to request one way...

Well I am finally 3 months but the morning sickness is still in full force. Looking to plan the Babymoon for mid-January, but struggling with where to go since I won't be diving and need to decide soon. I am trying to decided if I should find an awesome snorkeling spot, or just try to find a...

Hubs took about 2000 total shots on 28 dives (24 Anilao and 4 PG) with his new g16 setup. We will start working on the gopro and g16 video next week. My favorite shots from our recent trip: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/107784497066124958625/albums/6151741691660559105 Please let me...

First, thank you so much to the scubaboard community especially, Luko, Centrals, drBill, ocdiver1, and Woodman. Your various posts and private messages were invaluable in planning this trip. I was equal parts excited and nervous to take a "big" trip like this for the first time, and the idea...

I had my travel clinic visit today for vaccines and they suggested I think about a Japanese Encephalitis vaccine based on the CDC guidelines. The three criteria are: - Visits lasting a month or longer ( I am only going for two weeks) - Most time spent outdoors ( scuba diving trip so pretty much...

I posted a long meandering post in General Travel, got no responses, lol, so now I am boiling it down here to two Questions: 1. Weather: How is the weather and the amount of people in early December. Thinking about 1-2 weeks at the very beginning of December. We have been in late October and...

Thanks in advance for your patience with a long and meandering post. I know its a little pathetic to start thinking about the next next dive trip, when we are so excited to hit the Philippines in April. However, we might be able to squeeze something in for early December this year (before the...

Well, My dive boots weren't really working for me anymore. Too thin, sole not hard enough for Bonaire, also a bit on the small side. So with some Christmas money I got some fleece lined socks and hard soled SP 6.5 boots. Now however they won't fit in my SP medium Sea wing novas. So I need...

I love these fins but I got some new hard soled boots and need to go up a size to Large or maybe XL. Some minor scuffs, but perfectly functional. Purchased in 2011 and have about 60 dives on them. Always rinsed and stored inside. Would consider trade for L or XL of same fins. $75 via...

We are arriving Manila on ANA from Tokyo (terminal 4?) at 9pm on a Tuesday night and will have a private transfer to Club O in Anilao. I am trying to get a handle on when/where to get pesos and water. I know that there are ATMs before customs, but that you can't bring in more than a certain...

Hi all, Still searching around for our next trip. Would love to branch out from the Caribbean if possible. Thinking a a shorter Philippines trip might be doable. We are intermediate beginners with 69 dives all with easy conditions in the Caribbean or local pond. We love shallow, warm, good...

Bonaire May 23rd - June 7th 2014 Trip Report Overall: We were celebrating our 10th anniversary and a finally recovered enough knee injury (which kept me out of the ocean for almost two years). We had come for a week in October 2011 and loved it and were more than ready to return and were so...

Hopefully this post is okay, I figure since a lot of you guys coming to the Caribbean come through Houston, that I would drop you a line and see if I could get help with a recommendation. Due to United changing all of their flights, we are now doing an all in one day through from Denver to...

I hesitate to post this, because I am always rolling my eyes about people asking for "diet" advice on a vacation. Well, now here I am in the middle of a weight loss journey and about to encounter a 2 week dive trip to Bonaire. I have taken vacations before while dieting (never two weeks...

Always looking ahead and trying to plan trips. Criteria: -Good for new divers (~70 dives) - fairly shallow with warm clear water -fairly easy conditions -emphasis on great reef -Not incredibly difficult to get to Where would you recommend for 1)Caribbean 2) Everywhere else