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I'm going to be there for about 5 days; have some divers and some non-divers. The hotel someone in our group picked out is the Hilton Los Cabos Beach & Golf Resort. 1. Besides renting a car, what are my options from getting from the hotel to Cabos San Lucas for diving, which I believe is about...

Signs that your Dive Buddy isn't really into being Your Dive Buddy: (1) You make the out of air sign, and your buddy writes "Wait here. I'll bring back more." (2) You make the out of air sign, and your buddy quickly donates his snorkel.

Such a terrible thing. I feel so sad for everyone at Scubaluv. How does such a thing happen, with the boat coming free like that? Do the ropes tear free from where they attach to the boat? Or do they snap (hard to imagine)... Or does the anchorage at the bottom of the harbor come free...

Are we saying there is just totally zero kelp in the dive park? I'm (hopefully) going to be there on Friday. That would be a bit disappointing...

I've had the best luck seeing the GSB at Catalina when going out on a boat like the King Neptune, at sites like Blue Car Wreck (and some others I don't remember the name of). I will be back in September. I've only occasionally seen them in the park, and not great sightings then --- much more...

I would say no; one diver had only one dive, if I got his story correct. (He couldn't have had more than 5, and I doubt he'd done a deep dive before.)

I stuck to the 10 lbs because it was the proper weight for me. If I can descend on it, but only when I stop moving and don't hold my breath, then it's the right amount of weight. I know that at the end of the dive, when I'm light the air in my tank, that I can hold at 15' for my safety stop...

In the end, not so big a deal---but for seven to eight seconds, a total sense of shock (in the back of my mind)... The story goes like this (stop now if you don't like overly long narrated stories that are not a big deal by the time you get to their conclusion...) It was my first day diving in...

Well, I ended up diving with ADM not 2 weeks ago. I did my local reef diving with them for a few days, and also used them for the trip to the Blue Hole. While I can't speak for how their instruction or PADI standards are, I can say that the local reef diving was conducted well, and safely...

Just got back from doing the blue hole trip, with Amigos del Mar. While swimming with the big stalactites was cooler than I thought, overall it was a bit boring. (I actually thought the coolest part was looking out over the lip and down down down, at 30 ft, just before the descent.) If...

I was boxing up the pills to send to you for proper disposal, but in a freak accident, I dropped the bottle just as I was about to put it in the shipping box. Amazingly, the top came free, and a single pill fell out and then, if you can believe it, bounced off the box and ultimately landed in...

I would take a pill on dry-land to test it. I get a bit of dry-mouth, and paradoxically, I get just a bit dizzy (if I'm not moving around!)

The sole manufacturer of Scopace pills (Hope pharma.) discontinued them in 2011, but the web-site Scopolamine will compound the active ingredient into a tablet form. (Many of us like the controlled dosage of pills much better than wearing a patch.) Anybody have any experience going the...

Good point. I thinking the Amigos del Mar boat, which appears to be one of the larger ones you can go on...

In general, I don't ever use sea sickness meds when diving Hawaii, Catalina, (shore-diving) Monterey. The only time I've ever needed/wanted them was when boat diving outside Monterey Bay, where you get the long/slow 6 foot swells. Fast/choppy waves don't bother me (or my wife). I'm wondering...

The fact that the first two people to reply didn't say it was overkill says it all. DAN it is.

Point taken.

I am quite concerned by this post, plus the trip advisor post on May 25, about lack of safety at the blue hole. In fact, Amigos del Mar is who I had picked out to do my diving with, as people seemed to think they are both safe and run a very comfortable trip out to the blue hole. (My wife is...

I'm going to be diving in GCM and Belize next month. I have the DAN safety sausage, and a somewhat smaller one. My hesitation in using the DAN one is that not only is it kind of big, I get the feeling in certain dive spots that people are wondering just what I expect to go wrong that would...

I was thinking about Amigos del Mar for the Blue Hole trip. Approximately how many people do they take on that boat? It seems like a big boat --- but a very very long day for my wife, just for snorkeling. Is the boat very comfortable for the amount of time you spend on it? Is the boat ride...