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We are back from our trip and I wanted to wait a bit before posting. While there were many wonderful attributes to the trip, this vacation didn't pan out as hoped. Me, my wife, and 16 other friends all booked the Caribbean Explorer II out of St. Maarten. Our group had the entire boat. I had...

I've read most of the posts I can find on the topic, and read the All Star Live Aboard blog about packing, but we are about to head out on a minor bucket list live aboard and would like to know if there is anything uncommon that you either wish you would have brought or saw someone with it and...

Other than a 2010 post on the same issue, I did not see anything more recent. We are a small volunteer evidence and recovery team with a small county budget. Currently we use the vest type PFD’s which are miserable to wear if it’s more than 60 degrees. We have a little money left in the budget...

This will be the first year in 8 years that my wife and I have not been in Cozumel for Day of the Dead. It's my favorite holiday and last years celebration was canceled due to Covid, not to mention Hurricane level rains and wind. The trip was a bust on multiple levels except for the food...

OK, Get comfortable...if you have read my reports, you know they are long. Diving and food are at the end. In 2019, I and several friends took a guys trip to Michigan for a few days of diving. It was lots of fun so we decided to do it every year. Covid stole the 2020 trip, but for 2021, we...

Me and 4 friends will be making the 12 hour drive to Pensacola to dive the Oriskany in a few days. Any tips, must see items on the boat, places to eat, things to see, etc? Any other wrecks that are must sees? We have 2 days of diving on a private charter. 5 men, 50+, old, fat, married, but...

Get comfortable, this will probably be long- Just returned from a week in Roatan, our second time there, and all went well...mostly. Getting There- Delta pulled it off without any travel drama other than canceling our Saturday flight several months ago requiring us to fly in to Atlanta on...

I did a search here as well as Google and can't find out if Sudafed is allowed to be brought into Roatan? Honduran jail does not sound like much fun, but sudafed works best for my allergies. Anyone know? Thanks, Jay

This was just posted in Cozumel 4 You- Diego's Tacos Cozumel Jay

Looks like I'm going to put together another trip to Lake Michigan for a group of old, fat, smelly, and grumpy, but experienced, divers from OK. One of the group would like to dive one of the mostly intact clipper ships if possible. We can dive out of Hammond, Chicago, or Milwaukee...

Wow, it actually sucks to be home and I have never said that after ANY vacation...ever. I go into any vacation somewhat jaded because we love Cozumel. We love everything about Cozumel, so even after a few days of being somewhere else, I always say, "It's nice...but it's not Cozumel" Spoiler...

5 divers, 2 Shearwater Perdix computers, A Pro Plus X, and 2 Pro Plus 3's. All diving identical profiles and Nitrox blends. All well within reg profiles, absolutely nothing froggy. My wife's Pro Plus 3 began flashing UP about 20 minutes into the third dive of the second day, max dept of 50...

This is long, get comfortable....... We got back last night after the cross country flight from Florida to Denver...then back to OKC. Southwest was awesome as always with no travel drama. Gotta love 2 free bags and they actually get you and your luggage there. We are a group of older divers...

Partially out of desperation for ANY diving other than Oklahoma lakes, time and $$ constraints, and multiple Caribbean cancelations, we booked a trip with several friends to dive Chrystal River Fl next week. I've read the posts here and the we will be doing the river, the snorkel with Manatees...

Craigslist did it to me again and I got a great deal on a set of gear. I'm more of a Scubapro guy but included was a set of Tusa regulators I can not find any model numbers on. The first stage has 2 HP ports and 4 LP ports. On one end it has the following markings: CE 0426 EN 250-2000 >10C...

Edit- This is posted in the Ocean Reef forum and I forgot to put Ocean Reef Neptune in the title. im going to look at a used Neptune with coms this week. I have a huge head so I'm sure I will need the Larger skirt. Are they marked? How do you tell the size? Thanks, Jay (Title edited by...

to save time, here is my trip advisor review- It just keeps getting better! Review of Cenote Xperience Reviewed yesterday My wife likes reefs and pretty fish so we go to Cozumel a few times a year. We usually take a day off during the week and I snuck over to Playa for a day of Cenote diving...

ok...if you have read any of my reports over the last 5years, you know pretty much everything I am about to say. We have a system that works for us amazingly well. This report will focus on anything new. The Scuba Gods smiled upon us on the bag drag. Off the plane in Cancun, cleared customs...

This may turn into a longer than usual report because the trip was nothing like anything we had done before. It was not the typical dive vacation I had hoped for, bur more of a Cuban vacation with some diving thrown in. This was our first trip to Cuba so I'm no expert. Also, I don't care about...

This is hardly underwater treasure but maybe I can find some information about a US submarine lost in WWII off of the Northeast coast of Japan. I have a case that has taken a more personal impact than most. The case details are not important for this post, but it involves a WWII veteran whose...