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  1. rmorgan

    Trip Report Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, January 2024

    We joined a 12-night voyage to Cuba’s Jardines ("HarDEENes") de la Reina aboard Jardines Avalon III. We flew American from Cincinnati through Miami; the whole trip was about six hours. Arrival at Havana was easy, baggage operations were efficient, and customs was simple (all arriving bags were...
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    Little Cayman reef situation

    Would anyone who's been to Little Cayman in the past 30 days or so care to comment on the condition of the hard (and soft) corals, especially with regard to last year's bleaching? Algae? Is there still, apparently, no SCTLD among Little's reefs?
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    Manado to Sorong

    We're flying from Manado to Sorong, presumably on Lion, to board a liveaboard. Our very-reliable travel agent is comfortable with our departing Manado on the day of embarkation. Understanding that there's always some risk of delay, is it a terrible idea to count on Lion to get us there on the...
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    Marine Life Woman fatally injured by shark in the Bahamas

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-tourist-killed-bahamas-shark-attack-identified
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    Conception trial begins

    Deckhand testifies fighting deadly fire on California dive boat impossible The first deckhand of the Conception told jurors how the captain jumped overboard as the other crew members were trying to find a way to reach the passengers trapped below. EDVARD PETTERSSON / October 27, 2023 Plan of the...
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    Red Sea liveaboard trifecta?

    The Red Sea's on our list, and friends recently asked that we look at the Seawolf Dominator. Three Two issues concern us, and I'm curious whether there are boats in those waters which resolves any or all of them. The most concerning is the Zodiac issues recently discussed--boarding the Zodiac...
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    Trip Report PNG--Walindi and Oceania, May-June 2023 (Part 2)

    Oceania Oceania is a very solid 28-meter catamaran with diesel engines and redundant generators and watermakers, all of which seemed completely up to the task. Dan Johnson is owner, master, and cruise director. After Capt. Johnson did an extensive, multi-year refit, the boat was launched as a...
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    Trip Report PNG -- Walindi and Oceania, May-June 2023 (Part 1)

    We visited Papua New Guinea, where we spent nine nights traversing Kimbe Bay on the MV Oceania liveaboard, and a little more than a week at Walindi Plantation Resort. Including travel time, which is substantial and can easily become problematic, we were out for 25 days from mid-May to early...
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    2023 Atlantic-Caribbean ocean temperatures

    So much attention is being paid to this summer’s reported spike in water temperatures. If there is actually a 3-5f spike, that’s a tragedy In the making. If it’s bad information it would be useful to know. Divers have excellent information on their wrists, and it would be interesting (to me...
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    Repair Innovative Scuba Concepts retractor?

    I have a 40” Innovative retractor. The line won’t fully retract. Not very expensive, but not cheap either; not very old, but not brand-new. The case is fairly inscrutable. Perhaps someone has either cracked the code and fixed one, or tried but ended up tossing the thing?
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    Diving Bari will be complicated for awhile

    According to BES Reporter: “SUNSET BEACH PARK Work to build a public park at Sunset Beach, between Chogogo Beach Resort and Den Laman Condominiums, will definitely start next Monday, February 6, 2023. This means that the area will be closed to the public this week, so that it is not possible to...
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    Trip Report NAI'A liveaboard, November 2022

    NAI’A Our 10-day NAI’A voyage was chartered through Backscatter’s travel arm, Underexposures, which did a great job for us. The trip was rescheduled from 2020. Of the 18 passengers, 18 were photographers or videographers. We may have been the only people who had not booked the original voyage...
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    Trip Report Fiji: Volivoli in November

    We visited Fiji for the first three weeks of November 2022. We were at Volivoli Beach Resort for a week, followed by a 10-day cruise aboard the NAI’A, which is the only liveaboard in Fijian waters. (A 64-cabin cruise ship, the Reef Endeavor, offers some diving.) This report reports our Volivoli...
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    SCTLD report may have been unfounded!

    Per BES Reporter, the findings of SCTLD may have been a misdiagnosis--they're keeping the sites closed while they monitor, but how great would that be. Link to the article
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    No more re-entry testing

    Good news, in my view (this is from the NYT, but is being reported widely): June 10, 2022, 10:34 a.m. ET The Biden administration has decided to lift the requirement that all travelers bound for the United States by air, including American citizens, must show negative coronavirus test...
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    Two strobes with TG-6

    TG-6 crowd, is there a gizmo for using two strobes (other than with a slave device)?
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    Aerial bait ball survey

    Bait Balls- Bonaire - DCNA — link to a short video of bait balls on the east side of the island
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    Diver lost from liveaboard off Saba

    On November 18th: Sea Saba, which is the larger of what may now be two dive operations on the island, (and an exceptionally-good one in our experience) clarified that the diver had not been out with any of the land-based operators, so apparently she was on a liveaboard rather than "visiting...
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    Flights galore …

    AA, DELTA and UNITED SCHEDULE FLIGHTS TO FIA Tourism Corporation Bonaire (TCB) is announcing the flight schedules from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines for the upcoming months. As part of our Tourism Recovery Plan, TCB will continue with these efforts to keep seeing a...
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    Recent STINAPA presentation regarding SCTLD

    In this presentation from STINAPA late last month, Marine Biologist Roxanne Francisca describes the history of disease on the Bonaire reef system and the nature and progression of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. The first five minutes or so are dead air, but the presentation is informative and...
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