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    Cenote Diving and Safety

    This spring, I did two dives at Dos Ojos. It was incredibly beautiful, especially the Bat Cave part. There were two clients, and the other guy was way more experienced than me. Our guide was obviously an experienced cave diver, I could tell just by his reg set-up but having read these posts I...
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    January 2013, Cozumel

    Dear BettyinToronto and everyone, Hi, Just wanted to say that we will be there, and it will be easy to find us as we are staying right at the Blue Angel and diving with them too; see you next Monday, Jan 7th, for Happy Hour and in the meantime, Happy New Year !!! Sail 'n Dive (p.s. I think I...
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    January 2013, Cozumel

    Hi Betty and all, We'll be at the Blue Angel Jan 4-11, and it would be lovely to meet up with Scubaboarders ...
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    TUSA mini knife: screws needed

    Dear scubaboarders: Hello, I own a TUSA mini BCD knife, blunt tip, TBTK11. Its been great, but I had to take it off my inflator hose to add an emergency signaling device during a boat trip, and I misplaced the four stainless screws that make the hose attachment work. I think they are about the...
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    Free ! Women's seaquest 7 mm two piece wetsuit

    Free to good home ... Women's seaquest 7mm two piece wetsuit. Supposed to be size 11-12, I wear an 8-10 and I find it a bit of a struggle to get into. Advertised as fitting 5'5", 125-35 lbs. bust 36-38; waist 27-29; hips 36-39. But it actually fits a smaller woman, in my humble opinion. This is...
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    Trip Report, Galapagos Liveaboard, Estrella del Mar/Divethegalapagos, Aug. 2011

    I returned a couple of weeks ago from a dive trip to the Galapagos (Aug 14-24) organized by Leslie at divethegalapagos. It was one of her whole-boat charters, Estrella del Mar. The diving was excellent to spectacular, but I have to say that the service on board was uneven. Leslie handpicked...
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    Trip Report, Turneffe Island Resort

    Yes, quite right, mea culpa.
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    Trip Report, Turneffe Island Resort

    Folks, I am sure I am missing some really great in-jokes :) As for gas info, I just meant to say that for that one dive, I was diving on the 22 mix that everyone else had, and sorry if I used the wrong technical language there. But to get back to the real point of the story, I liked diving...
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    Trip Report, Turneffe Island Resort

    ok : 22
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    Trip Report, Turneffe Island Resort

    Sorry, can't help with the id ! Downer, Nick is one half of the new resort management team, with Vanda. They are British divers, very experienced -- in fact, they tell some whopper stories about diving in the North Sea, deep tekkie stuff, wrecks and so on. After meeting in Scotland, they worked...
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    Trip Report, Turneffe Island Resort

    Downing, good to hear that your experience was even better than ours -- which was already a fine vacation. I should mention that they split us up on the dives themselves as well, meaning about 5-9 divers in our boat, plus divemaster , Brad (excellent) and boat captain (Marcel). For the deep dive...
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    Trip Report, Turneffe Island Resort

    My partner and I spent our March break at TIR this year (I am a college professor ...) and it was lovely experience. Belize City itself is rather underwhelming. But then the fun began -- excellent boat transfer way out to their island, away from the crowds on the other cayes. The island itself...
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    Downcurrents, drysuits, and cowboy diving ...

    dd -- sorry, I did not know that the toxic effects of going past the depth limit when breathing nitrox were immediate, I just knew that it was something one ought to avoid. so I guess my revised version would be, thank goodness they were ok. s & d
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    Downcurrents, drysuits, and cowboy diving ...

    A recent thread on the scariest dive so far reminds me of a scary dive in the Quadra Island, British Columbia area several years ago. I was a newbie diver and traveling alone. I got matched up with a very nice young guy by the dive/boat operator. my buddy and his friends, a bunch of other...
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    Best dives in the Caribe?

    for more experienced divers, the pinnacles off Saba deserve a mention here, imho ...
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    My scariest dive so far.

    this thread reminds me of a scary dive in the Quadra Island, British Columbia area several years ago. I was a newbie diver and traveling alone. I got matched up with a very nice young guy by the boat operator. my buddy and his friends, a bunch of other guys, were diving nitrox, I was on...
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    Jellyfish on night dive -- ouch !

    the folks I was with said it was a sea wasp. On the naked tourist story -- who knows if this is true ? -- an inebriated tourist was partying on an anchored chartered yacht at night and thought it would be great fun if she stripped naked and skinnydipped -- of course the male onlookers just...
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    Jost Van Dyke Watersports?

    Jost van dyke as in the BVI's ? When I visited during an island sailing trip, this little island struck me as rather undeveloped. There was Foxy's of course, then a very rustic village, with a grocery store in a shack at the end of the lane. I have heard that you can do bargain-priced camping...
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    Jellyfish on night dive -- ouch !

    Let me start by saying up front that this was entirely my fault. I got stung last week on a night dive. The dive operator and the DM briefed us thoroughly. It was at a dive site in Roatan, and it had been raining the day before. The dive op and DM warned us that they usually see a lot of...
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