Official dive vacation thread

[Craigdillman]

Me and my wife love Cozumel too quick trip you can stay in a bed and breakfast for like 325$ for 10 days and the diving and food is cheap , we dove with
scuba tony dive company last time and I couldn't say more good things about them


Here is a quick go pro video of our last dive trip there


http://youtu.be/Fel_0EN0-qg

[Craigdillman]

Has anyone been to roatan or Honduras is another close by place for a quick dive getaway we were thinking of jetting away on April ish next year and thinking doing a 10ish day dive trip any one been

[daplatapus]

I've dove Utila which is another little island 30 min or so ferry ride from Roatan. If you time it right they get whale sharks out there.
I was there shortly after a couple big storms had passed through and the viz wasn't great and there was still large swells rolling through.

[Treebeard]

We were looking at Roatan and staying at Anthony's Key Resort . The diving and the resort look really nice but as I recall it was a schlep getting there and we have lots of Air Miles so we decided on going to Cozumel direct from Toronto.

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Has anyone been to roatan or Honduras is another close by place for a quick dive getaway we were thinking of jetting away on April ish next year and thinking doing a 10ish day dive trip any one been

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Here is a quick go pro video of our last dive trip there


http://youtu.be/Fel_0EN0-qg

Might be my PC but the link is'nt working for me

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Me and my wife love Cozumel too quick trip you can stay in a bed and breakfast for like 325$ for 10 days and the diving and food is cheap , we dove with scuba tony dive company last time and I couldn't say more good things about them. Here is a quick go pro video of our last dive trip there http://youtu.be/Fel_0EN0-qg

Nice vid! Is that the Palancar reef along the edge of the wall? We took a ride in that submarine that went along an area that looks a lot like your video - we got lucky and sat right behind the captain. It was a neat experience. We didn't see any rays or turtles off Cozumel - a few Nurse Sharks, and TONNES of Barracuda (like every 30 feet). Not so many fish as you see in Hawaii.

[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.

Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Me and my wife love Cozumel too quick trip you can stay in a bed and breakfast for like 325$ for 10 days and the diving and food is cheap , we dove with
scuba tony dive company last time and I couldn't say more good things about them


Here is a quick go pro video of our last dive trip there


http://youtu.be/Fel_0EN0-qg

[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.