Doesn't it stink...

[novicediver]

Sorry to hear that especially if you only get to travel once in a great while due to schedule, funds, etc. I am not sure if trip insurance is available for that sort of thing particularly if the trip was specifically for diving.

 

[Crush]

Yup, that bites. And at hotel+food+airfare, that is some pretty expensive non-diving time.

I am about to promote one dive operation on Oahu. I am not affiliated with them in any way save for being a satisfied customer.

Gabe Scotti at Kaimana Divers (Kaimana Divers: SCUBA Diving in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, Waikiki) was great. (I cross-posted here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ha...t-scotti-duck-gabe-scotti-kaimana-divers.html ).

Here is why I thought he was great - he is affiliated (in a friendly way) with many boats and dive shops, but at the time of this posting, I believe that he continues to charter dive spots for his customers on any available boat. This means that, in the event on inclement weather, he can rapidly put you on a different boat if your current captain has determined the sea to be too unpredictable in the area you hoped to dive in that day. This potentially makes for more diving time and less hotel pool time.

Aloha.

 

[DevonDiver]

It's time to play with macro photography. Dive slow and search for the small stuff. Bad viz has less impact on close-up photography.

 

[ScubaVideo]

Even worse when you live there.

How's that? When you travel to someplace on vacation, you have used up your vacation time, spent thousands of dollars to get there and enjoy the diving.

If you live there, you just have to wait the storm out and then get wet.

Now if were talking devastation from a hurricane, that's just is bad if you live there.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

When you show up for your vacation with hopes to do a bunch of diving and finding the weather is bad, waves are huge, vis is crap and the weather report is more of the same for the rest of your trip...

Yes it is, but you're on vacation ... so you make the best of what nature throws at you. I've been to Pt. Hardy (VanIsle) twice. It's expensive to go there. Both times the weather stunk, and I've yet to do the dive I most went there to do. But we had a good time anyway ... because we decided to.

I learned this lesson a few years back on a trip to Roatan. I had a few things go wrong, and let it affect my whole attitude about the trip. I didn't have a very good time, and reflecting back on it later I realized that it was mostly because I decided not to.

Last month I wrote this trip report about my Thanksgiving vacation. The theme of the story is that no matter how many things go wrong, you always get to decide what to make of it.

Can't do much about the weather. Sux not to be able to do the things you went there for, but you can choose to make the most of what you can do. You're on vacation, after all ... often times, adversity gives us the memories we'll be telling our grandkids decades from now ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[dkktsunami]

If there is ANY way to still dive safely, I would still go out. By diving in the worst conditions, it makes the clear, calm stuff a piece of cake. If not,.... that's life some times. I just find something else to occupy my time. Disappointing?.... sure. There are just somethings I have no control of.

This is what I do. Also I try to have back-up plans in place. For example, in Key Largo: dive Jules Verne, dive the quarry on Long Key, go out with Ocean Divers who seem to be impervious to weather. There is almost always a way to get wet. If not then there is everyone's other favorite endeavor............

 

[NightForce]

What if the bad storms uncover hidden pirate treasure and you find it on your only chance to dive before you leave. Tadah millionaire. Just kidding man sorry about the bad weather. Like others have said hopefully you can find other great activities to do while on vacation. A bad day of vacation beats a good day of work.

 

[vladimir]

Yes it is, but you're on vacation ... so you make the best of what nature throws at you. I've been to Pt. Hardy (VanIsle) twice. It's expensive to go there. Both times the weather stunk, and I've yet to do the dive I most went there to do. But we had a good time anyway ... because we decided to.

I learned this lesson a few years back on a trip to Roatan. I had a few things go wrong, and let it affect my whole attitude about the trip. I didn't have a very good time, and reflecting back on it later I realized that it was mostly because I decided not to.

Last month I wrote this trip report about my Thanksgiving vacation. The theme of the story is that no matter how many things go wrong, you always get to decide what to make of it.

Can't do much about the weather. Sux not to be able to do the things you went there for, but you can choose to make the most of what you can do. You're on vacation, after all ... often times, adversity gives us the memories we'll be telling our grandkids decades from now ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Great point. In addition to lousy weather, sometimes bags don't show up, cameras housings flood, ears won't clear, etc. I have had good luck over the years--no dive trip has been adversely impacted to an extent worth mentioning. I have made up my mind in advance, though, to enjoy my vacation when something does go wrong. If my camera gear fails for whatever reason, I'll rediscover the joy of diving unencumbered. If I can't dive, how terrible is a book and a hammock in a tropical paradise?

 

[Garrobo]

Most of my diving is limited to the upper Keys and southeast Florida. There is a website called the Weather Channel (or NOAH) which will give you a ten-day forcast for any location for temperature, winds, wave height and water temp which I check every day. Any reservations which I make are only with outfits which will let me cancel within 48 hours with no charge which includes dive shop, motel and rental car. Also, I fly Southwest 90% of the time which will let me change my flight dates to a future time at no charge. Since I usually go once a month if the weather will cooperate I am atuned to all this stuff. Of course if you are nailed down to a vacation sort of thing a couple times a year and can't cancel, well, you need to buy avacation insurance policy, speak the local lingo, plan on partying down or you're up ****'s Creek in the rain.

 

[LakeCountyDiver]

Ya that has happened to me before in Key Largo. I got there and it was overcast with 6-8ft seas. Thats huge for the little dive boat I use there but I would not wana dive with anybody else. I did 3 boat trips with them morning,afternoon,morning. All 6-8seas Viz was not good and you had to time it just right jumping off the back of the boat. I would do it again I still had a blast there were only a few on the boat because most of them canceled.

Its your vacation make the most of it.