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Booked January 20-28 in Curaçao on a whim; now I need to find a dive op. - Mr T doesn’t dive any more, so I won’t be diving every day and will need guided dives, preferably with an op that attracts other reasonably experienced, reliable potential instabuddies - Boat dives preferred or else...

A happy, undemanding return to diving, though the Caribbean still does not compare to Asia. Southern sites were notably not very fishy. Cloudy weather didn't help the coral look its best, but there did seem to be a lot of tunicate and subdued colours, as well as a few definite spots of stony...

Long-awaited return to diving will now be just me. My best buddy will still be travelling with me to take his astro photos and snorkel, but he’s just figuring out a new health issue and won’t dive. I’m booked with Blue Water Divers (who by the way have recovered from the fire mentioned by...

Many readers here are familiar with Asia Divers at Small La Laguna beach, Puerto Galera. Our stay was to have been March 9-16, with a second week in South Leyte, but the way domestic and international transportation went pear-shaped altered our plans. Hours spent to rebook flights and negotiate...

The last three guests were to leave Asia Divers/El Galleon today. From the first sign of trouble on March 13th, an announcement that ferries and public boats would be stopped at noon on the 14th, echoing the shutdown of domestic flights, official news went from bad to insane with head-spinning...

Have read through the threads and it seems as though everyone who has been to South Leyte likes the first dive op they picked and has stuck with it... but is there any advantage to one over the other? I think that my dive buddy and I are considering Peter’s, Southern Leyte Divers and Sogod Bay...

Wondering whether I can get away with my usual 3mm in February or March in Jordan, I understand that’s quite unlikely in Egyptian Red Sea at that time, but read someplace that Jordan’s temperatures are consistently reasonable. Any info? My definition of “reasonable” is somewhere around 24...

Reporting back on our March 23-30 stay at Off the Wall, Long Caye, Glover’s Reef Atoll. I wanted safe, professional valet diving, pretty fish and corals, short daily rides, comfort without expensive luxury, and an atmosphere that encouraged camaraderie. Thanks to guidance from this board, I got...

I am not clear on all the factors at play here, but it appears that the last easy transfers to Puerto Galera/Sabang/La Laguna are under threat. As a petition on change dot org puts it, there was a new regulation last July to ban wooden-hulled boats (I.e. pumpboats, bangkas) from carrying...

plenty has been written here and I apologize if the regulars will feel they have said all they can on this subject. We have up to two weeks to get away from Canadian winter. We would spend a week diving then head inland to experience Belize’ other wonders. I would like great reefs and...

headed to Akumal next week, and although there are a couple other issues that might affect this holiday, what this group might answer for me is your experience diving when sargassum is washing ashore. How has it affected getting to the boat, visibility, critters to be seen?

Air Juan, a charter airline, is now advertising a scheduled service between Manila Bay and Puerto Galera, using Cessna seaplanes, for an introductory promo price of P4500 (approx US $ 100) per person one way. Should cut quite a few hours off the trip. Anyone care to try them out and report back?

Grateful for your collective views. We know we will be hitting Bali in mid-March after a solar eclipse cruise. From a logistical point of view, it might make sense either to hit Manado beforehand, i.e. late February, via Singapore, or to hit Manado afterwards, or to hit Ambon afterwards...

Looking around for two-bedroom condos for January, only finding stuff well beyond my price range (say $700 a week? bit more if we have to), and wondering what alternatives there might be, walking distance to downtown, that would give me and my dive buddy each our own bed, ideally each our own room.

Hi folks, Looking for colourful coral and plenty of fish within one plane-hop of Ottawa (man, is that ever a limiting factor). Is Florida diving warm and pleasant enough in the winter months? Airfare will be about the same whether we go for Fort Lauderdale or Mexico, and we'd have to rent a car...

So, looking at calendar and constraints it may end up being a year again between dive trips, at least for my dearest buddy. We would both like to refresh and improve safety practices so that we are calm, confident and correct in an emergency. The options appear to be investing in 7 mm suits...

A friend has her heart set on Akumal diving, preferably during Canadian winter. My only related experience is Puerto Morelos one March, when the waves were a bit choppy. Queasy tummies made us abort the second dive each day we tried. Vis wasn't anything to write home about, either. Cozumel in...

This was only Mr T's second dive with his GoPro, so we have no record of this enormous turtle's next move, which was to swim over towards kentmorr for an intimate staredown.

Into our fourth day of diving here and Cozumel is growing on me... thrilled with the TLC from Jeremy, and we couldn't ask for nicer conditions. The scenery is incredibly varied, which makes up for a lower fish density. Nice to see a few anemones -- those were entirely missing the last time we...

Are there budget airlines that fly direct from Rome, or airports not too far from Rome, to Marsa Alam or Sharm El Sheikh? I am wondering how easy it is to tack on a week of diving to a trip that will end up in Italy.