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If one of you bladefish owners could do me a favor next time you are out with yours. Turn it around while you are negatively bouyant on the bottom and see how well it will blow out holes in the sand. I'm interested in finding out if it has enough power to do this.

When I was down at Carolina Beach this past weekend, I heard from a reliable source that there are two pending federal bills that will stifle, if not halt diving off of the North Carolina coast. I have not read the verbage of either bill, or have the bill numbers, so all I could do is repeat...

I didn't find out about Steves post about this dive trip until the other day and thought I should chime in about this trip since I was on it. For one, Steve started complaining before the boat even left the dock. There was nothing unusual about the trip out and the seas where not as bad as he...

I'm diving with Captain Tom McMillan next weekend and he has a few slots on the boat still open. This is some of the best times to get into the water in the Cooper due to low volume of diving going on this time of year and the winter weather that has washed alot of fossils out of their beds...

Getting back to the airport on Saturday was a chore. We had set it up with Danny for the round trip (his cost is usually $170.00 for the van load each way), but due to the heavy rains and mud slides closing the two routes across the mountains to Playa del Coco from San Jose, he couldn't get to...

I'll try to get some pictures posted later and edit them into this report. The people at Playa del Coco treated us well. Most of the properties had bars over their windows and all the hotels had security guards and gates, but I personally never saw any crime or felt that there was a threat of...

We did do dives to both the Catalina Islands and to the Bat Islands, for the rest of the week, Paul was our dive leader. He was very good at what he does and fun to have around. For both RCD had to charter another boat (that was thankfully faster) to get us out to these islands. On the way out...

We had our first dive set up on Saturday morning and met at the shop around 7:30. Paul, one of the dive leaders, met us at the hotel to get our gear and us to the shop (something they don't normally do I think). Our dive leader for the dives was Bianca and she led us from the shop down to the...

Just got back from Costa Rica this past weekend (October 14th, 2007). It was a trying time for us (two couples) that were suppose to be on a Windjammer ship (Legacy), but the company had gone bottoms up and we were forced to enact plan B, which I had in the wings since I suspected the Legacy...

Heck, Thats when we are going also. Just now trying to set up new plans since our original plans went belly up. Looking at the Villa del Sol and Rich Coast Diving in Playa del Coco. Maybe we'll see ya down there!

When are you going? You'll have to submit a trip report when you get back, which will hopefully be before I go in mid-October.

For me? Besides local dives and fossil dive, I'll be heading down to Costa Rica in October for some diving, wish I could get out to Coco's Island while I'm there, but it wont be happening this time! How about you Doc, where are world travels taking you?

I did want to make one correction to the report. The tour company that set up the trip and did such a fantastic job of getting us to and from "Deep Blue's" boat, set up the hotels and transfers and took care of all the details for us was "Galapagos Adventures" which is run by a great guy named...

Cont... This was pretty much our routine for the two days at Wolf; Large schools of Eagle Rays, Manta Rays, Hammerheads, Galapagos Sharks, Silky Sharks, Dolphins, some Silvertip sharks, baitballs and fish so thick it blocked out the light, Moray eels everywhere and just utterly fantastic...

Cont... We completed eight dives at Darwin's Arch over the two days at Darwin. Didn't see another boat the entire time we were there which was nice. The dives were pretty much the same, the pangas would drop us in near the north side of the arch and we would drift back towards Darwin where we...

Cont... We flew back to Guayaquil that evening and the Grand Hotels driver was waiting for us again, I was amazed, even after our flight was an hour and a half late! We met up with most of the rest of our group going out on the Deep Blue, in the hotel's restaurant/Bar then called it a night...

This was our home for the 7 day trip.

Well, I'm back and what a fantastic trip it was. We didn't get to see whale sharks, but the other large pelagics more than made up for that! We flew into Guayaquil, Ecuador a few days early so we could see the country side a bit. We got into Guayaquil late on friday due to American's flight...

Me and my wife after my scramble up the glacier

The 20K high volcano, Cotopaxi