Fairweatherdiver
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Hello Everyone,
You guys are usually right on the money so maybe you can help. I am looking for a vacation in the Caribbean with my husband who is most happy while underwater. If he can hang out with other divers, he is really in heaven, so a liveaboard is really a great vacation for him. I would never do a liveaboard again. So we need to find a place that suits us both.
The descrition below will give you an idea of the challenges my husband faces when it comes to me and diving.
If someone asks what kind of diver I am the automatically response is 80/100 diver. 80 degrees and 100 ft vis. While that is not specifically true it is pretty accurate. My diving career started in a lake (with a leftover hurricane parked over the top of it) with 0 vis and 56 degree water.
I have dove Ft Lauderdale in November with 7 ft waves and and a divemaster that did not know the meaning of "go with the flow". Belize in 96 was OK. Hawaii other than the Mantas -not worth the flight time to do it again. Costa Rica - Pacific side - really not worth diving. BVI's Liveaboard - out of 15 dives, I only got in 4 times. Vis was 20ft first dive and never got over 60 ft. Rhone was really cool though. Current in the afternoons was alway ripping.
Cayman (DiveTech) is by far my favorite place to dive. Great vis, little current, good coral, great walls, decent fish. If I am looking for a week of diving, that is where I go, however, other than eat, drink rum and dive, not much else to do there.
I love night dives.
I am looking for some place that has decent enough diving so there is a least a possibility of me doing two tanks a day but if I decide not to dive, I am not stuck sitting on a beach with nothing to do. Costa Rica is my favorite land based vacation because of all the activities available.
Bonaire is a little iffy because if I decide not to dive my husband is out of luck for shore diving because he does not have a buddy and there is nothing to do on the island except dive.
Any suggestions?
You guys are usually right on the money so maybe you can help. I am looking for a vacation in the Caribbean with my husband who is most happy while underwater. If he can hang out with other divers, he is really in heaven, so a liveaboard is really a great vacation for him. I would never do a liveaboard again. So we need to find a place that suits us both.
The descrition below will give you an idea of the challenges my husband faces when it comes to me and diving.
If someone asks what kind of diver I am the automatically response is 80/100 diver. 80 degrees and 100 ft vis. While that is not specifically true it is pretty accurate. My diving career started in a lake (with a leftover hurricane parked over the top of it) with 0 vis and 56 degree water.
I have dove Ft Lauderdale in November with 7 ft waves and and a divemaster that did not know the meaning of "go with the flow". Belize in 96 was OK. Hawaii other than the Mantas -not worth the flight time to do it again. Costa Rica - Pacific side - really not worth diving. BVI's Liveaboard - out of 15 dives, I only got in 4 times. Vis was 20ft first dive and never got over 60 ft. Rhone was really cool though. Current in the afternoons was alway ripping.
Cayman (DiveTech) is by far my favorite place to dive. Great vis, little current, good coral, great walls, decent fish. If I am looking for a week of diving, that is where I go, however, other than eat, drink rum and dive, not much else to do there.
I love night dives.
I am looking for some place that has decent enough diving so there is a least a possibility of me doing two tanks a day but if I decide not to dive, I am not stuck sitting on a beach with nothing to do. Costa Rica is my favorite land based vacation because of all the activities available.
Bonaire is a little iffy because if I decide not to dive my husband is out of luck for shore diving because he does not have a buddy and there is nothing to do on the island except dive.
Any suggestions?
