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We are thinking about booking a late December 2024 trip on Solomon Masters : Florida and Russell Islands (Honiara - Honiara) 7 nights They are one of the two LOBs in Solomon Islands , and the more recognized Bilikiki doesn't work with our schedule. We can not find much information about...

Hello, We are heading to Paradise Taveuni for a 10 day dive trip during the Christmas and New Year holiday. Are there strong currents at Rainbow Reef, esp at the Great White Wall? I heard that the dive there tends to be scheduled only at certain time related to the moon phase. We are...

Hello, I am Asian woman based in United States. I am looking for mask to replace my 10 year old Mares XV Sunrise Liquidskin. "Sunrise" is the Asian face version for Mares masks. So far I tried the following (with recommendations from searching on SB): 1) Mares X-vision Ultra Liquidskin...

Hello, we are planning our 2024 Dec diving trip during the Christmas/New Year Holiday, for about 2 weeks. We took 2 December dive trips to Indonesia before: South Komodo+ Bali (2019), and Raja Ampat (2022), both LOB+ a few days of land based. We enjoyed them both, esp R4. We also took recent...

We are looking for a diving vacation destination for 2024 December, around Christmas/New Year weeks. In the last few years, we have taken diving vacations around late December: South Komodo + Bali in 2019, Maldives in 2021, Raja Ampat in 2022 and will dive at Fiji this December. We have enjoyed...

Hello, Thanks to all the great help received on this board, we booked all our flights to our Dec RA LOB trip. . But recently, I found that I made a mistake on the flight date on the one way Batik flight from Sorong to CGK when I booked it online. So I went back to the website to change it ...

Hello, We have an LOB at Raja Ampat in Dec. After learning a lot from the board on the travel logistics, we booked our flights a couple of months ago: EWR (Newark) - HND (Haneda, Tokyo) -CGK through United and CGK- Sorong with Garuda. We thought we are all set, till we got an email from...

Hello fellow divers, We are planning a dive trip in Thanksgiving week (Nov 19-26, 2022) and Caymen Islands is on the top of our list. We are intermediate divers and have enjoyed diving at Socoro + Cabo Pulmo and Cozumel in the last two years during Thanksgiving week. We are hoping to find...

Hello, We are getting ready for a Maldives Carpe Novo on Dec 17 North Male-South Male-Vaavu-South Ari-North Male. I am having a hard time deciding between two pairs of fins to bring : 1) Scubapro GO Travel fins (size xxs), shown in the left in the picture. It looks small as my shoe size is...

I am looking for a travel BCD. This will be my first BCD purchase. I have been renting BCDs and hope to find something that fits me well and is easy to travel with. I am 5'4, 105 lb, wear XXS BARE wetsuit. From my online research, the following models received good review as women's travel BCD...

We are planning a trip to Maldive in Dec and have found lots of helpful info here on the SB. We are thinking about exploring the "deep south" after doing a LOB in the central area. Here are our two options: 1) A "deep south" LOB: e.g Horizon III has an itineraray Addu-Fuvahmulah-Addu...

Hello, My husband and I are going to Cozumel for a week in Nov, our first diving trip there. We've found a lot of good information on SB and kudos to all the contributers here. We are hoping to do some high volumn diving while we are in Cozumel. Any recent experience of a diving shop that...

We are planning a short trip to Belize end of May and it will be our first trip there. We plan to spend 5 to 6 nights, and will do 3/4 days of diving. I have done some research on SB and am debating whether to base our diving at Ambergris Caye or the southern Belize area of Placentia/Hopkins...

Summary Nov 18-26, 2020, including 2 days of crossing, and 5 days of 18 dives at San Benedicto (2 days), Socorro and Roca Partida (2 days). Marine Life: Giant Oceanic Mantas, white tip sharks, Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, hammerhead sharks, whale sharks, bottlenose dolphins, tunas, etc...

Hello, I have a LOB to Socorro booked next week with the first dive day next Fri. Also planned to do a few pre-LOB land-based dives early next week . Then sadly, I crashed while cycling last Saturday. Got road rash on my elbow and bruises on my legs. Now I have road rash covered in...

Hello, Thanks to all the wonderful information found on this board, we booked a diving trip to the Cabos in Nov. Now we are hoping to make it there before any potential Covid-19 travel restrictions. Here is the plan: 1) Nov 15-18, fly to SJD, stay at Tesoro at Cabo San Lucas, and dive 3 days...

Hello, We are beginner divers (AOW w/50+ dives) looking for a Thanksgiving week adventure vacation (including diving) destination. We have dove at Rivera Maya and Costa Rica at Thanksgiving for two years and are looking for something new. Here is what we are looking for 1) Warm water diving...

Hello, We are still planning our Thanksgiving trip to Rivieria Maya, and have narrowed it down to Puerto Aventuras. Below are the dive ops we are considering for my niece's OW (13 years old) and ourAOW: 1) Dive Aventuras. We've seen some good review about them on the board, but their website...

Hello, We are planning a 2 week trip to Bali and Komodo for the 2019 Christmas/New Year holiday. We are beginner divers (my husband about 20 dives and me 50) and will get AOW in Nov. We have found a 5 day LOB for Komodo, but are not sure about diving in Bali in Dec. From my research online...

Hello, We are planning a vacation with extended family to Riviera Maya this Thanksgiving (Nov 27-Dec1). We would like to find an all inclusive resort in the area with a reputable on-site dive center and get my niece (13 years old) OW certified, and me and my husband AOW. The rest of the family...