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You can add me to the list of formerly happy Sherwood Avid owners. The bottom tank mount totally failed as I was making a safety stop. I was pretty confused as to why my tank was floating next to my head. I was not so confused when I got on the boat. When I got on the boat and inspected the...

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Got a Groupon e-mail for a one day ferry trip to Bimini with FRS Caribbean for $69. I have to admit that I know nothing about Bimini, except that it's close to Florida and my bride likes the name. Would it be worth it to try to get a dive or two in if we leave Miami at 8 a.m. and leave Bimini...

There isn't much of a dive club around here that I'm aware of. The dive shops here all give a pretty good locals' discount, be sure and ask before you book. There isn't much shore diving to speak of, so you have to go out on a boat.

"Of potential significance to advocates for new cruise facilities, the survey results show that almost 10 percent of stay-over visitors previously came to the Cayman Islands on a cruise ship" I would say that the flip-side is more accurate. Of potential significance to opponents of new...

There was a period of time when the prevailing thought was to spear invasive lionfish and feed them to the neighborhood predators. The idea was that the predators would learn to look at lionfish as a food source and return the balance of the reef. What happened instead was that the local...

My personal favorite regardless of where on the island is Epic Divers. EPIC Divers – Grand Cayman | Dude, what an EPIC ride

You get the Reader's Digest version because I"m too lazy to post a real trip report. Today was the second Friday of three weeks on island. I had to work the first week, but we have dived the Babylon area from shore twice. Dived the Riviera shore dive twice during the day and once at night...

One would think that noise mitigation and would be part of the design since their guests would be just as bothered by compressor noise as those who live at Lighthouse.

Went with the Harbor Freight one and she finally used it for the first time last night. It worked great. One cycle for everything except the second stage housing. That took 3 cycles. Being cautious, she used plain distilled water and no heat and it still got the crud off of all of the parts...

Looks like Captain's Corner's website is broke. Sorry about that.

If you're staying at a Waldorf, you'll be either at the Casa Marina or The Reach. I don't think any of the shops runs a shuttle, so both will require you drive or taxi to the shop you'll use. You might want to call and see if you can leave your gear with the shop you chose rather than having...

I have been on a couple of night dives on the Vandy. It's a great dive, but requires a great deal of caution. Unless the people who want to go are at least rescue certified AND known to the dive shop, I doubt you'll get anyone to take you. It's a big, dark ocean out there at night and the...

AOW is more about assessing and improving your skill and comfort in the water than it is about book work. Try to pick the dives you sign up for based on what you need work on, not based on what sounds fun. Deep and underwater nav are required. Unless you are a very unusual case, chose peak...

Where are you staying? Are you looking at renting some, most, or all of your equipment? Do either of you need (or want) a prescription mask? Will you want a guide?

My computer says it was 77 inside the Vandy on Sunday (3/20). First neoprene-free dive of the year. Felt good!

As relatively new OW divers not diving Key West wouldn't be the end of the world. If you had a little more experience and training not diving at least the Vandenberg would be a HUGE mistake.

I don't understand why they didn't get stairs with elevators rather than ramps. The ones we have in Key West (where we also don't have jetways) have self-contained elevators for passengers who can't negotiate stairs. Of course that doesn't help with the smaller planes. EYW uses the plane's...

We've never run into anything like that at the West Bay Dock, but we've certainly seen it in other places (downtown East End can be quite the gauntlet on a Saturday night). Chances are that they were still up from the night before. Most of the locals I know claim that it's not locals that are...

It certainly appears that the CIG wants tourists who drink $25 margaritas out of souvenir glasses and then move on more then they want tourists who stay for a week or two and dive.