Official dive vacation thread

[H2o2]

I dont dive but snorkel and a friend is letting me borrow his go pro for when we go to Thailand in January so if i get anything cool hopefully i can figure it out and will be able to post it here

[Craigdillman]

Originally Posted by Treebeard

Agreed! We are staying at Mi Casa, $610 for two weeks and about 2 blocks from the water. We have not booked a dive op yet but thinking about going with Aldora based on their great reviews.

Yea that's the place we stayed at mi casa was awesome we got the room with a kitchen and bought our own breakfast stuff cause we were too early for their breakfast usually before our dives good spot


Also yes we did dive palancar reefs while there man took so much more video in Indonesia and as I'm editing it I'm regretting it lol

[Delphinus]

Just came back from the Big Island where I was able to get a couple tanks in. Not as much as I'd like, next time there's an opportunity for me to do "diving while on vacation" I hope it can be more of a "diving vacation." (Not that I didn't appreciate all the other things we did though, I love it in Hawaii.)

One dive was down to 80' and unfortunately a little overcast so my non-extra-light GoPro pictures are not terribly good. When time permits I will see what I can salvage and share.

One heartbreaking thing I saw was a lot of coral bleaching. One reason I keep going back to the Big Island was just how vibrant the coral colours were, porites, pocilliporas and others, lots of pinks and yellows ...... this year so much white.

On closer inspection I could see that the coral was still alive, just bleached. So one thing we can say, with the experience we get in this hobby .. is that we know that if conditions allow, they can recover. The flipside though is that, with the experience we get in this hobby ... is that if things don't get better quickly, the potential to dieoff is also there. So it is with no small measure of mixed emotions on my part this time around.

[shiftline]

Here is my video from diving in the Galápagos Islands last spring. Amazing place

http://youtu.be/txTjzcw1Fv0

[Treebeard]

Beautiful! Did you see any hammerheads?

Originally Posted by shiftline

Here is my video from diving in the Galápagos Islands last spring. Amazing place

http://youtu.be/txTjzcw1Fv0

[Myka]

No kidding! ^

Originally Posted by shiftline

Here is my video from diving in the Galápagos Islands last spring. Amazing place

http://youtu.be/txTjzcw1Fv0

So many sharks - awesome!!!

[Reef Pilot]

Saw my first shark while snorkeling, off St.John's (Caribbean) a couple weeks ago. Startled me as he was right under me about 10 ft down, so quietly got out of there as fast as I could... Turned out to be just a nurse shark (not supposed to be dangerous),... but I didn't know that at the time. Was about 6 - 8 ft long.

[saltcreep]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Saw my first shark while snorkeling, off St.John's (Caribbean) a couple weeks ago. Startled me as he was right under me about 10 ft down, so quietly got out of there as fast as I could... Turned out to be just a nurse shark (not supposed to be dangerous),... but I didn't know that at the time. Was about 6 - 8 ft long.

A couple of years ago in Belize, our dive operator let us use spearguns on all of our dives to hunt lion fish. The smaller lion fish would get fed to the nurse sharks right off the spear. It got to the point where the sharks would follow us on the dives.

The larger lions were bagged and brought back to the boat for a beach bbq.

[shiftline]

I sure did. I think there is a clip of them somewhere in the video but it's from the side and in the distance so can't really tell. Was a very cool experience

[shiftline]

Originally Posted by lemon604

I don't dive but I was in the Philippines couple of years ago,. Heading back to Palawan next February. Here's the video of me snorkeling in Palawan



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzIrq71z5yQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgDjZt7mcs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfwqpHJYRoE

That is one packed reef!