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Sorry - I misspelled that. It's Holbox, not Hobox. If I remember correctly, it is pronounced, "Holbush." We went with a dive group from The Dive Shop here in Richmond, VA. The proprietor, Jim McNeal, has a good contact in Alex, a local dive master who has a dive operation in Cozumel. We...

I was on a trip once in Key Largo with Captain Slate. There were some divers that surfaced quite far away from the boat. He had do deploy his ADRU (******* diver retrieval unit) to get them. They must have been some of those Sea Rectums you were talking about.:eyebrow: --DivingDoc

Silverknife -- thanks for the detailed and well organized review. BTW, if you want to see whale sharks, you should do snorkeling off of Hobox Island (off the Yucatan peninsula) in Mexico in July or August. We had one afternoon where we stopped counting at 21 whale sharks, 10 manta rays and a...

Silver knife: I am waiting for your assessment with baited breath. They are holding our slots on the Aggressor until Nov 11 and your report will help me decide whether to keep them.

It's still a lot of money and 2 weeks off of work. Also, the problems sited in Undercurrent were that the toilets backed up for 2 days and even after they were fixed, the cabins smelled like sewage for the rest of the week. Also that air got mixed with Nitrox and separate bottles were not kept...

Two of my favorite things about Little Cayman: 1. The friendly groupers -- if you point out a hole in the coral, they will go and look in it. If you point out a squirrel fish, they will follow you everywhere (you are their new hunting partner). If you are looking into a hole or space in the...

I wish someone had would report that had tried the Aggressor since the most recent renovations in Aug. I really need to decide now re: 2 slots that have opened up with a group I usually dive with for an early January trip.

Are you saying this because you have tried the boat or because of what I said or what you have heard from others?

Has anyone gone on Thailand Aggressor recently? We have the opportunity to go with a group in January, but I read a really bad couple of reviews on it in Undercurrents -- smell of sewage in the cabins most of the week, toilets backing up, mixing air and nitrox and not having dedicated Nitrox...

Little Cayman beach resort is my favorite place I have been. I have been there for 5 1 week-long trips. It is harder to get to but that is probably why it is not over-dove like Grand Cayman. I have only been to Grand Turk once. A nice thing in Grand Turk is that you can practically swim to...

I really like my Henderson Insta-dry boots. I am a female and wear size 8 D pr 8 W women's shoes. In New Balance sneakersk I wear a quad-E. What is even better, the boots dry really fast and never get to stinking.

I was recently diving in Little Cayman and after the 2nd day of diving, my dive computer was reading "Wet/EL2" before the dive instead of the usual "Wet/Sea". I looked at the manual and couldn't find any way to change this. I was most certainly at sea level before each dive and I turned the...

Any suggestions for those of us who don't speak German?

There are two ways to get into the heart through the chest without going through bone (i.e. the sternum): 1) between the ribs -- best approach is between the 4th and 5th ribs just to the left of the sternum (patient's left). 2) just beneath the xiphoid process (at the bottom end of the...

But I NEVER do that. I always start back up at 500 to 700 PSI -- the deeper the dive, the higher my PSI trigger. I consider my redundant air source as just that -- something I never really plan to use -- so it doesn't affect the way I do my dive profile. And since I only do NDC diving, deco...

Canadian Diver: Can you give me a link to your review on the Hydro-Optix?

SCUBA-Steve: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or genuine in your above comment. If you dive in CA, I would gues you're mostly doing dry suits?

I personally am not concerned with the comparable cost. I have BOTH a 3 cu ft Spare Air AND a 13 cu ft pony, along with an Atomic Z1 to put on the pony and a button gauge for it. But for shallow dives < 60 feet, I find it easier to use the Spare Air. It's alot less fussing around between...