Hi all!

[billnokly]

Hello there friends! I'm Bill, living in the Seattle, WA area (for about 5 years now), but spent about 10 years in So. California. I never dove until I got up here (pressure from the significant other). I just got certed in November of last year (darn it was cold)! I went to Cozumel and Grand Cayman diving in December and it was great for a first time (or any time). They tell me how great diving is up here in the Pacific NW, but it is just to cold for my weenie butt (about 42-47f).
So, I'll just keep planning three day weekend trips to Mexico and try to keep up with it. If anyone hears of a cool place on the Western side of Mexico, please let me know. I'm looking into Puerto Vallarta in May. Hope to chat with you all soon.

 

[SpaceX Aquanaut]

Hi Bill!

It took a drysuit with drygloves, battery heated thermal vest with 400gm thinsulate underjumpsuit and thick Hood -to fully appreciate the beautiful diving in the PNW USA/Vancouver Island Canada. And you know what? The invertebrate life at depth on the rock reefs & schooling fish , and on the wrecks (HMCS Saskatchewan, Columbia, Cape Breton) -the colors rival anything that I've seen over twenty years of travels in the Tropics -Caribbean or SE Asia. . . ! (That and the Road Trip four years ago with all my gear up I-5 from Los Angeles to Seattle/Vancouver City BC, and crossing the Salish Sea by ferry to motor way-up Vancouver Island to Port Hardy was one of my most fun highway sightseeing adventures experienced!)

For Western side of Mexico, try Baja Expeditions out of La Paz; or go far offshore to the Socorros Islands on a Liveaboard.

Welcome to Scubaboard!

 

[LI-er]

I'm more concerned with why you get involved with people who prohibit you from diving, and worse yet you follow their commands.