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Sounds like a great trip. I'm sure you'll love it and find iDive meets and exceeds expectations. Everyone was so great to us. If you and your wife love seeing lots of colourful life, I'd suggest going to the Torfa reef if it's offered. The last, shallower, part of the dive is like an aquarium. I...

I'm sorry if this reply is too late to be useful for you. I can second diving with iDive in Hurghada Bay. We tried to stay at Fort Arabesque, but as they were full, we stayed a short walk around the bay (10-15 mins) at Jaz Makadina and thought it was good. They had a resort dive shop as well...

Welcome to ScubaBoard, Syb. As I'm sure you're discovering, this is a tremendous resource and community. I'm also about to dive the Red Sea (near Hurghada) for the first time, and am VERY excited! It's great you have found SCUBA so early in life, and have diving friends already. Ideal!

Yes, a bit scary, but so worth it. Octopuses are a firm favourite of mine due to the 2 nights dives I've done. Both were done on a site familiar from previous dives and the shallowest/easiest site. The familiarity helps to calm the nerves. One was a twilight start, as others suggested and that...

Thanks Eve. I'll mention it to the dive shop early so we have a few days to try. Thx for the comments on shops too! p.s. great dive site name. :cheers:

Thanks for the reply dbulmer! I will ask about Panorama Reef / Salem. That sounds great. I've looked up Pro Divers and will remember them if and when we return to the area. A big appeal of iDive for this trip is the walk-up-the-beach commute to start each dive day! :) I've been on snorkel...

We've booked a trip to Hurghada for a week in mid-November. As dive buddies since certification, we're going to hit our 50th dive on this trip and would like it to be a bit special. This will be our first time in the Red Sea. So, I've been reading this forum and got lots of good info (esp...

Welcome to ScubaBoard, Hannah. From a fellow Canuck.

If you're at all interested in cenote diving, you can fly direct into Cancun from YYZ. Stay anywhere along the Mayan Riviera (Cancun, Playa, Akumal, Tulum, etc) and get to plenty of cenotes quite easily. You can get a day of open water in too, but while fine, probably won't quite measure up to...

Thank you all for replies which I saw before the planned Cozumel dives. I do apologize for not thanking you sooner, but the holiday was upon us before I knew it! We've now returned home and the jet lag is just about behind me. After much indecisiveness (partly due to our non-diving friends)...

Thanks for all the responses! That really helps. Barcos Caribe on their site list 6:45 a.m. as their first departure from Playa, so that could definitely get us diving in the morning. gopbroek, thanks for telling me about Barcos Caribe ^ and reminding me to sort all paperwork out in advance...

We're staying south of Playa del Carmen April 18-25, and diving there, but we want to do one day diving in Cozumel. We're already booked in with non-diving friends, so please no torturing us by saying "stay in Cozumel" - we just can't this time. :( I don't think the earliest ferry can get us...

Hi castone001, Before we were certified, we did a 2nd Discover Scuba with Ixtapa Aqua Paradise in February 2012. I believe they have an office in Zihuatenejo, but we went with them simply because they had a shop at the AI we stayed at, the Barcelo in Ixtapa. There may be better dive ops in the...

My 5 dives were Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck, Deep, Underwater Navigation and Night Dive. Even though AOW is just a sampling, I felt my confidence and skills improve, while getting a taste for some new things (night diving=Yeah!). The old saying "you don't know what you don't know" starts to...

In the first week of June we traveled to Santorini and thought we should sample the diving in Greece. Having read here and elsewhere that the island has been overfished, we kept our expectations low. After Scubaboard and TripAdvisor searches we chose Santorini Dive Center, but decided to start...

Recent ex-Vancouverite here... Ocean Quest in Burnaby is very highly rated. It's a 5 star IDC PADI centre. The owner, Greg, teaches a year long SCUBA course at a local college. So, tons of experience in this crew. Everyone there seems to know their stuff and be very helpful. Welcome to Ocean...

Hi wetb4igetinthewater, I'll start a thread in the Central/Eastern Europe section, and remember to come back to report how we found it.

Can I revive this list? I just found it fun to read all the different diving resumes. Mexico - Akumal area x 2 Mexico - Dos Ojos cenote Mexico - Zihuatenejo Mexico - Cozumel Dominican Republic - Bayahibe British Columbia - Sechelt Inlet Next Week: Santorini (can't wait to get wet again)...

In February 2011 we did our 2nd Discover SCUBA through the Ixtapa Barcelo resort (b4 getting certified later in the year). The shop was run by Ixtapa Aqua Paradise which I believe had a satellite shop at the resort. The boat left from the Zihuatanejo bay and we dove 2 sites, Manzanillo and...

We were in Varadero for a week in 2009. We stayed at Sandals Hicacos. While the white sand beach was lovely, the snorkeling at this property was non-existent, no fish or reefs at all that we could find. We were very disappointed and wouldn't return to Varadero again. We did however go on one of...