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g2

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¡Hola Divamigos!

I'm looking for group trips to really out-of-the-way locations, especially temperate or cold water destinations. I've done a lot of trips solo, and that's okay, but the most fun has been when going with a group of other divers who become friends by the end of the trip. Unfortunately these kinds of group trips are scarce enough that I only seem to hear about them when someone posts a Post-Trip Dive Report. Well, poop.

To give you some idea what I'm looking for, during the past few years I've been to St John's Newfoundland, Lofoten Islands in Norway, God's Pocket in British Columbia, Easter Island, Iceland, and Saint Helena. All fantastic!

On the bucket list are:
  • Japan, including Yonaguni and sharks at Mikomoto
  • Tasmania for leafy seadragons and other stuff
  • Cuttlefish season in Whyalla, Australia if anything is still alive after the toxic algae bloom
  • Yellowstone Lake
  • Narvik wrecks in Norway, maybe Harstaad too
  • Svalbard, Tromsø, or Jan Mayen
  • Greenland? Maybe for Greenland sharks.
  • Antarctica
  • Anything exploratory or scientific
  • Alaska, and more BC Canada
What else should go on that list?

Anyway, if you know of someone putting together a tight, far-flung group trip please post a link here. Thx.
 
Mikomoto was great but definitely not cold! I only had one day but wished for a week.
You could spend a week or two shore diving southern Vancouver Island BC.
 
For some of the best diving on the Planet, look no further than God's Pocket. As a huge bonus, the boat has an elevator!
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Faith Ortens' Blue Green Expeditions runs the kind of trips that you're thinking of, I think...

(No connection, but a friend is going to be on the upcoming Greenland trip as one of the "scientists and imagemakers")
 
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Yellowstone Lake itself is monumentally boring. I love the park but the lake itself is a "one and done". Vis was ok-ish, just very little to see.

Are you looking for strictly recreational dives? Are you deco or cave trained?
 
rjack321:
Yellowstone Lake itself is monumentally boring. I love the park but the lake itself is a "one and done". Vis was ok-ish, just very little to see.

Are you looking for strictly recreational dives? Are you deco or cave trained?
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Strictly recreational.

See this thread about diving the spires in Yellowstone Lake.
 
g2:
Strictly recreational.

See this thread about diving the spires in Yellowstone Lake.
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Those look interesting, they weren't publicized when I was there in 2011-ish.

The "problem" with the USGS map is the scale. Their bathymetry was high resolution for its era. But anything smaller than about 10m is too small to resolve. 1 pixel on their map is like 50+m across.

The contractor who did the scans also failed to turn correct that data (I have the raw data from a FOIA request). So even trying to reprocess the data to resolve down to wreck size is frustrating as there are a ton of small artifacts in the dataset that don't actually exist.
 
g2:
¡Hola Divamigos!

I'm looking for group trips to really out-of-the-way locations, especially temperate or cold water destinations. I've done a lot of trips solo, and that's okay, but the most fun has been when going with a group of other divers who become friends by the end of the trip. Unfortunately these kinds of group trips are scarce enough that I only seem to hear about them when someone posts a Post-Trip Dive Report. Well, poop.

To give you some idea what I'm looking for, during the past few years I've been to St John's Newfoundland, Lofoten Islands in Norway, God's Pocket in British Columbia, Easter Island, Iceland, and Saint Helena. All fantastic!

On the bucket list are:
  • Japan, including Yonaguni and sharks at Mikomoto
  • Tasmania for leafy seadragons and other stuff
  • Cuttlefish season in Whyalla, Australia if anything is still alive after the toxic algae bloom
  • Yellowstone Lake
  • Narvik wrecks in Norway, maybe Harstaad too
  • Svalbard, Tromsø, or Jan Mayen
  • Greenland? Maybe for Greenland sharks.
  • Antarctica
  • Anything exploratory or scientific
  • Alaska, and more BC Canada
What else should go on that list?

Anyway, if you know of someone putting together a tight, far-flung group trip please post a link here. Thx.
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Tobermory, Newfoundland is getting to start on the map, they have white shark cage diving.

YVR like you mentioned is good along with port hardy.
 
Pretty sure Tasmania does not have leafy sea dragons. It has common or weedy sea dragons.

You need to go to South Australia for leafies.

Whyalla is in South Australia and has not been affected by the algal bloom as far as I know as it is a long way from the Adelaide area. The leafies might have been but I have seen nothing saying that they have been.

If you like wrecks, then Scapa Flow in the Orkeny Islands off the top of Scotland is fantastic, spent a week there diving the German WWI wrecks.
 
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