the_deeb;3496490; said:
Hey....Nah, wont be a liveaboard..will just be daily trips..There is a couple of wrecks off Hurghada coast which i want to investigate aswell....should be cool, looking forward to going there...
Any SCUBA divers?
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Hey....Nah, wont be a liveaboard..will just be daily trips..There is a couple of wrecks off Hurghada coast which i want to investigate aswell....should be cool, looking forward to going there...
the_deeb;3492111; said:
not sure about the simian islands, but when I went diving in thailand in august my divemaster said november was the end of the season because the rain runoff from the rainy season makes visibility virtually nil. April/May is the best time to go for where I was diving.
well I was snorkeling this morning actually, I went epic paranoid when I saw there were little jellyfish around me that looked like irukangdi, but after closer observation I could tell they were not, plus they don't drift down this far south. saw a shark and heaps of reef fish that were beyond me.
I've been certified for about 11 years.
Most of my diving has been in Mexico. I would love to dive some of the exotic locales mentioned (South Pacific or the Red Sea would be incredible), but the airfare alone costs more than a whole trip to Mexico...
I was certified in Cozumel and I've been back to Quintana Roo six times since. The last three times we never even went in the ocean, we did all our diving underground. Cenote diving is a unique and incredible experience, I'm hooked! One highlight was snorkeling in a Mayan Sacrificial Well. We had to rappel down into the sinkhole after hiking through the jungle in a monkey preserve.
I have also dove a lot in the Puerto Vallarta area, mostly shore dives and around Los Arcos. It's been years, but I have also dove on the Oaxacan coast.
Other warm-water destinations I've been to are Jamaica, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Hawaii.
I don't do as much cold-water diving as I would like to, as it is hard to find dive-partners (my wife draws the line somewhere around 70 degrees). I have dove countless lakes and rivers in Oregon and a few times offshore in the Pacific. I have also dove the Hood Canal in Washington a few times.
We mostly dive on our own (no guide/divemaster for about 90% of our dives). Cavern/cave diving is the one kind of diving that I wouldn't consider going without a guide - I like my life a little too much!
These are a few older threads; a couple general diving threads and one I posted last winter about some chilly diving at the local reservoir.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266266
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209280
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121258
Here is a shot of my wife rappelling into the Sacrificial Well and one of the 200+ skulls that littered the floor of the cenote:
Most of my diving has been in Mexico. I would love to dive some of the exotic locales mentioned (South Pacific or the Red Sea would be incredible), but the airfare alone costs more than a whole trip to Mexico...
I was certified in Cozumel and I've been back to Quintana Roo six times since. The last three times we never even went in the ocean, we did all our diving underground. Cenote diving is a unique and incredible experience, I'm hooked! One highlight was snorkeling in a Mayan Sacrificial Well. We had to rappel down into the sinkhole after hiking through the jungle in a monkey preserve.
I have also dove a lot in the Puerto Vallarta area, mostly shore dives and around Los Arcos. It's been years, but I have also dove on the Oaxacan coast.
Other warm-water destinations I've been to are Jamaica, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Hawaii.
I don't do as much cold-water diving as I would like to, as it is hard to find dive-partners (my wife draws the line somewhere around 70 degrees). I have dove countless lakes and rivers in Oregon and a few times offshore in the Pacific. I have also dove the Hood Canal in Washington a few times.
We mostly dive on our own (no guide/divemaster for about 90% of our dives). Cavern/cave diving is the one kind of diving that I wouldn't consider going without a guide - I like my life a little too much!
These are a few older threads; a couple general diving threads and one I posted last winter about some chilly diving at the local reservoir.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266266
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209280
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121258
Here is a shot of my wife rappelling into the Sacrificial Well and one of the 200+ skulls that littered the floor of the cenote:
Dan that sounds awesome! I generally mainly dive for the fauna, but Cenote diving sounds like a real thrill and I've love to try it one day. I can definitely sympathize with your wife re. the cold water - I'm a huge wuss when it comes to water temp.
Another warm water destination you might want to consider is Roatan and the Honduran Bay Islands. Flights are relatively short and cheap and I've heard the diving is good and incredibly affordable (<40$/tank). Plus Utila is a apparently one of the prime spots to see whale sharks. Haven't been there yet but it's definitely high on my list.
Anyone done any other freshwater stuff? I think it would be great to do some rift lake diving one day (Malawai/Tanganyika). SA (eg. Amazon) river diving would be awesome too, though I haven't really heard of anyone doing that. I guess visibility would be pretty poor.
Another warm water destination you might want to consider is Roatan and the Honduran Bay Islands. Flights are relatively short and cheap and I've heard the diving is good and incredibly affordable (<40$/tank). Plus Utila is a apparently one of the prime spots to see whale sharks. Haven't been there yet but it's definitely high on my list.
Anyone done any other freshwater stuff? I think it would be great to do some rift lake diving one day (Malawai/Tanganyika). SA (eg. Amazon) river diving would be awesome too, though I haven't really heard of anyone doing that. I guess visibility would be pretty poor.
The first time I snorkeled was about nine years ago in the Bahamas.I was poking about in some rock formations and looking into holes and I must have brushed my shoulder blade across some type of coral or something must have lightly stung me because I have felt a slight numbness to the touch in that area of my shoulder ever since.
I've been but I don't own my own gear. just borrowed a couple times from my buddies that are certified. I got some sharks teeth when i went diving at the reef and I nearly popped my ears out when i went to crystal river. I was very new to diving and I plunged about 30 feet straight down. that sucked!
I've been to a few spots while working for the Newport yacht club, my summer job in high school was following the regatta circuit and cleaning keels before races, I'd always throw my tools back up on the docks and explore the bays before clocking out.
I got to see a dozen spots in FL, Key west was pretty rad, at one point I found a sandbar literally covered with condyactlus. I got down to mexico a few times, always on the gulf coast so it was very similar to FL.
My best experience was in Bermuda, when a huge goliath grouper came in from deeper water and circled around me while I was cleaning, the fish probably had about 200 pounds on me and it was just hanging out, watching me work, it was really cool being around a wild predator that big that wasn't afraid of me and didn't intend me any harm either.
I got to see a dozen spots in FL, Key west was pretty rad, at one point I found a sandbar literally covered with condyactlus. I got down to mexico a few times, always on the gulf coast so it was very similar to FL.
My best experience was in Bermuda, when a huge goliath grouper came in from deeper water and circled around me while I was cleaning, the fish probably had about 200 pounds on me and it was just hanging out, watching me work, it was really cool being around a wild predator that big that wasn't afraid of me and didn't intend me any harm either.
