Best Boat for Diving

[wreckvalle]

What would you consider the best boat for Scuba diving?
http://www.powerboatexpo.com/diveboats.htm

 

[Hank49]

It would depend on where you're diving and how comfortable you feel you like to be during surface intervals. If money is no object, the Island Hopper and Delta designs would be great....whether in a lake or the open sea.

 

[Cacia]

Glacier Bays are great, (motor cats for big Hawaiian waters)

wish ours was a 32' and that fuel was free.

 

[Nemrod]

I want to start a thread about why people ask "what the best___________ ?" Why ask what the best fins, dive boat, regulator or BC is or the best car or house or shoes or pain killer is?

This is the best dive boat--right here:

Well, no, I am certain beyond doublt that this is the best dive boat:

Nope, changed my mind, this is the best dive boat there could possibly be:

No, wait, there is no BEST anything, so I got all of them!

Oh, the best regulator is a Royal Aqua Master.

N

 

[Cacia]

he he.

I like number two the best.

and your garage is very orderly.

now, boat number ONE will make you the best diver...

 

[travelmadness]

seems like most walk-around or fishing type boats are also well suited for diving

 

[mntdiver]

Depends on where you are and what kind of diving you do. For here in SoCal, I've been looking at the Ospreys. http://www.ospreyboats.com/ Now it's just a matter of figuring out which bank to rob.

 

[OE2X]

http://www.zodiaccz7.com or an 833 with a cabin.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

It depends on where you want to dive, how many you want to take, where you want to
keep it. If I won the Lotto, I'd have three: about a 14' soft-bottom inflatable (for Pt.
Lobos for the 80% of days when the tides are wrong to launch anything bigger), my
current 17' Boston Whaler (for the other 20%, and not having to schelp tanks out to
a slip), and something bigger, maybe a 27' Boston Whaler Challenger for bigger groups
or longer trips.

I hear Tiger Woods new megayacht has a trimix station.

 

[Dive Right In Scuba]

Ya this is a tough question to answer....Im looking at getting a dive boat in the future for some Great Lakes Diving....Only problem is whats good in the ocean is not good in my big ol'pond. Lake Michigan waves pound boats relentlessly and with such frequency that lots of boats go down. we dont have rolling waves with a few seconds between them.

MntDiver....let me know when you figure out which bank....Im in and I have a fast car!!!