liveaboard in mid july 1000$ bahamas or mexico

[Jordan23]

Thanks we will look for florida as u sajest. Can u tell me the diffrent with bonair couzumel ?

 

[diversteve]

Briefly, Cozumel will be cheaper to fly to from the U.S. Either location has good, clear diving. Cozumel tends to be deeper drift diving - even the shore dives have some current. You'll see a variety of interesting things in all sizes, sharks, lots of rays, turtles, etc. You don't get a lot of time since you're typically drifting past with your boat a little behind you overhead. Except there could be 1/2 dozen or more boats nearby. Usually the DM tows a flag/marker and pretty much wants everybody to stay together for ease of pickup and safety. There's also some really deep wall diving there. Cruise ships call pretty regularly in Cozumel but that's in the small town there. There's a lot of resorts both north and south that aren't affected by it.

Bonaire is the shore diving capital of the Caribbean. It's all macro stuff, I doubt you'll see a shark there all week. Stingrays are pretty common, Tarpon are all over and there's a lot of interesting smaller stuff like scorpionfish down to seahorses. There are 70+ marked shore dive locations on Bonaire's west coast but the only place to see bigger pelagics is typically a specialty dive on the east side. The standard plan on Bonaire is to buy an unlimited shore dive pkg. with a resort - they bundle room/truck/diving and dive as much as you want. The sites are pretty close to each other and IMO a little similar looking after a few days. Almost every resort on the water also has a "house" reef that you can dive anytime. Many are named Bonaire dive sites or near one. From the states Bonaire is a little harder to get to, there's limited flights in so it's never really crowded. Except when the occasional cruise ship docks downtown.

If it's convenient for you, there's also direct flights from the Netherlands since Bonaire is a Netherlands protectorate - except the official currency is U.S. dollars for several years now.

 

[Jordan23]

Thanks
since we will near miamy i gess we will look for nerest not from amsterdam

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Liveaboard Diving Vacations - Juliet Sailing and Diving

She leaves from Miami and sails overnite to the Bahamas for a week. Or the Keys. For her other two destinations they move the boat to St. Thomas for the Virgin Islands or Mayaguez, Puerto Rico to board the boat for the Mona Island trips. Of the 4 destinations, Mona is the best - it's pristine diving since there's not a lot of other boats or people in the area. They're going out there in 2015 - IDK when.

There really aren't any Northern California liveaboards. There's no boat based in the area that's big enough. Much of the San Francisco diving is done in a couple hours south in Monterey - SF bay itself is too rough most of the time. Plus the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary is there - it's known for the Kelp Forests - outstanding diving but really cold all year - layered wetsuit or drysuit is a good idea. The reason it's a couple hours south is not due to the distance but the traffic in Silicon Valley which you have to go completely through. It can take an hour or 3 hours.

Some of the Santa Barbara/Ventura boats (north of Los Angeles) do multi-day trips out to the Channel Islands but they're mostly going to be 3-4 day or shorter trips where you get a bunk and they feed you. Not a liveaboard with all the amenities. Anacapa is maybe the best of that - there's a huge sea lion colony and they like to play.

In south L.A. - San Pedro/Long Beach, many of the boats go over to Catalina Island on a daily basis. Oil Rig diving is also very popular. You can also take the Catalina Express ferry over - they're very used to seeing dive gear. From Avalon you can shore dive the marine park there.

Everything near San Diego is a day trip or a long weekend. Besides local diving and a wreck alley there's a Kelp forest off Point Loma also - 1/2 day trip. The Coronados Islands are near Mexico but they can be done in one day/overnight from San Diego harbor. And aren't that great, the Mexican gov't. allowed overfishing a decade ago and it hasn't come back yet.

The only liveaboard duration San Diego trips are the Great White encounters in the fall. They run down to Guadalupe Island off Mexico where that's done. Even some of the Mexico based liveaboards do that in the fall. And those are not dive trips but cage diving with boat supplied air. Usually no diving is allowed.

This is a pretty thorough list of California options: California Dive Boats : The Official Page

If it matters, even in the summer California diving is going to require at least a 5-7MM wetsuit - in winter people often use drysuits - the water temperature can drop into the 50's.

hi
i open the juliyet link its full on july august (we are until 18 of august in miam)i, and its 1500$ per person we are looking for cheeper in thoes dates

thanks

 

[KathyV]

You won't find many options at that price; just Blackbeards "camping at sea" as has been mentioned - and you will need to fly to Nassau to get on Blackbeards (and it may already be booked up for the summer.)

Since you will be in Fort Lauderdale you could drive to the Florida Keys and arrange a hotel/land-based dive package for as many days as you can afford; but you will need a rental car. It's a beautiful drive down to the keys.

There are many good dive operators in the Keys; Captain Slate's on Tavernier offers quality services, see the link below:

Captain Slate's Scuba Adventures Dive Center - Florida Keys

They also have an outpost with Guy Harvey on Key Largo (2014 prices - have to check to see if they have changed):

http://www.captainslate.com/Islander Dive Template 2014 revised.pdf

 

[Jordan23]

You won't find many options at that price; just Blackbeards "camping at sea" as has been mentioned - and you will need to fly to Nassau to get on Blackbeards (and it may already be booked up for the summer.)

Since you will be in Fort Lauderdale you could drive to the Florida Keys and arrange a hotel/land-based dive package for as many days as you can afford; but you will need a rental car. It's a beautiful drive down to the keys.

There are many good dive operators in the Keys; Captain Slate's on Tavernier offers quality services, see the link below:

Captain Slate's Scuba Adventures Dive Center - Florida Keys

They also have an outpost with Guy Harvey on Key Largo (2014 prices - have to check to see if they have changed):

http://www.captainslate.com/Islander Dive Template 2014 revised.pdf

Thamks. I have a car and a house for 3 weeks in forth landrail. But i dont like wrevk
.i prefer animels..

 

[KathyV]

Thamks. I have a car and a house for 3 weeks in forth landrail. But i dont like wrevk
.i prefer animels..

Nice! Fort Lauderdale is known for wreck diving but there is plenty of diving in the keys that doesn't involve wrecks. Maybe you could drive down for a long weekend.

You will be in Southern Florida for 3 weeks during the summer and you will have a car. You should be able to find some diving options that will meet your preferences and budget.

You should post a note in the Florida diving thread at the link below and ask for advice. Tell them that you don't care for wrecks and that you have a limited budget but you will have a car.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-diving/

 

[SouthSideScubaSteve]

Nice! Fort Lauderdale is known for wreck diving but there is plenty of diving in the keys that doesn't involve wrecks. Maybe you could drive down for a long weekend.

You will be in Southern Florida for 3 weeks during the summer and you will have a car. You should be able to find some diving options that will meet your preferences and budget.

You should post a note in the Florida diving thread at the link below and ask for advice. Tell them that you don't care for wrecks and that you have a limited budget but you will have a car.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-diving/

There's plenty of diving just north of Fort Lauderdale that doesn't involve wrecks either; lots of nice reefs at 40-70'... and it's as easy as just drifting along!

Check out Underwater Explorers out of Boynton Beach; Kevin will treat you right!