Where has been your favorite Diving and Where else have you dove?

[Beachlover]

Except for the minor fact that it is very cold!

Are you referring to my post about So.California? If so, it's not a problem for me,I stay warm in my 7mm.Right now our surface temps are a toasty 70ish and bottom temps are a cool 50ish.

 

[FritzCat66]

I live on Florida's east coast, so most of my 40+ dives (so far) have been in driving distance.

I'm another one of those who is excited by reefs, mostly bored by wrecks, and totally uninterested in tec or deco diving, so my list would include:

• Jupiter FL: Deep reefs (60'-80'), including Scarface & Area 51, tend to have big life
• Upper Keys: Shallow reefs (20'-40') means lots of sunlight for great pics

I just dove the Gulf for the first time last weekend, a boat out of Clearwater. One site was murky, but the other was a natural ledge with great vis and lots of life. Jury's still out, but I would like to go again.

I have plans for Roatan in the near future, heard there's some excellent reef diving there.

>*< Fritz

 

[carolrose]

Favorite: Toss up between Madison Blue and Peacock

Reason: Impossible to describe. The beauty, the sense of peace as you float through the cave, the work that goes into earning the priviledge to be there in the first place, the satisfaction of realizing a dream, just an intoxicating combination.

Places I've Been Diving:
North East US
Bermuda
Cozumel
Mexico Cenotes
Belize
Florida Caves

 

[Ontwreckdiver]

Favourite: The cold fresh water of the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway

Reason: Where else can you dive a 150 year old wooden shipwreck still standing tall and intact and a modern 600 ft. freighter on your second dive. I get bored diving on reefs also.

Places I've been diving:
Aruba 5X(wreck diving caribbean style)
Jamaica (first caribbean trip after getting certified)
Cuba (very good reefs)
Bonaire ( sorry, not on my a place to return to list)

 

[Thumpers]

Captain Don's Habitat and the shore diving.
Tanks available 24X7 unattended. This place is for serious divers. Self service mostly.
A 135 foot wall right off the docks that goes both directions for miles. I dove 28 dives the first trip I took there and 20 were shore dives. I still did not see it all.
Wrecks from 30 feet to 135 feet, huge morays, gorgeous undamaged coral, I could go on and on.

 

[vladimir]

My favorite was Cocos Island. Dozens of hammerheads on almost every dive, often a foot or two away, Galapagos sharks, blacktips, silky sharks, whale sharks, marlin (!), and too many white-tip reef sharks to count. But the highlight was a bait ball, featuring thousands of baitfish, now deceased, and hundreds of predators in a frenzy eating them: yellowfin tuna zipping right at you and veering off at the last instant, a school of dolphins, probably a hundred silky sharks taking turns throwing themselves through the bait and out of the water, and seabirds diving in from above.

I have also been to Bali; Belize; Bonaire; BVI; the Coral Sea; Cozumel; Derawan, Kakaban, and Sangalaki (off Borneo); Florida; the Great Barrier Reef; Jamaica; Kauai; Komodo and the surrounding islands; Layang-layang; Little Cayman; Martinique; some quarry diving in Maryland and Pennsylvania when I was in college; Maui (Molokini); some New York area wrecks when I was a teenager; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Phuket; Puerto Rico; the Similans; Sipadan; Sri Lanka; Sulawesi; Tioman; Trengganu; and the Truk Lagoon.

I would return to most of those places--and I have returned to many, but I can't recommend Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, or Sri Lanka based on the dives I did. Quarries? Hopefully not. NY wrecks? I might take another look someday.

 

[Jan Kruger]

My favourate dive sites must be Sodwana bay in SA as well as diving off the coast of southern to middle of Mozambique, where you find lots of beautiful reefs as well as some very old wrecks.Near Inhaca island off Mozambique there are several wrecks around the island.I would also love to dive at Cape town in SA where they have hundreds of wrecks along the coast. I love seeing reefs and wrecks as long as the viz is good.

 

[SBP Studios]

I would return to most of those places--and I have returned to many, but I can't recommend Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, or Sri Lanka based on the dives I did. Quarries? Hopefully not. NY wrecks? I might take another look someday.

I have a work trip to Puerto Rico in sept, was thinking about diving there. What was wrong with it?

 

[vladimir]

I did not go to Puerto Rico to dive. I went to hang on the beach at my in-law's condo at a beach near Humacao, across from Vieques. I did bring my gear and did four dives off Vieques. They completely sucked: no fish, no coral. One dive we just hung out in blue water about 70 feet deep and hoped a pelagic or a shark would swim by. Nada, as they say. It is likely that they were not the best Puerto Rico has to offer, probably not even average (which is why I qualified my mini-review with "based on the dives I did").

I don't travel that way anymore--most of my bad diving has been done when I tacked it on to a trip as an after-thought. Now I travel to bona fide dive destinations (which I don't consider PR to be) or I don't dive.

 

[sgj99]

it's a toss up between bonaire and belize. bonaire was like swimming in an aquarium and in belize i saw a manta ray and a loggerhead turtle - both were huge!

other places: cozumel, multiple times since it's only a 2 hour flight from here; little cayman and st. lucia.