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I'll miss Doc (formerly known as RoatanMan)--never had the opportunity to meet him in person, but had great online public and private interactions. Condolences to his family and all his friends and colleagues. I'll pour a memorial amount of alcohol at CocoView in September 2024 in his memory.

Angie C, the person who runs Flight Angels of Roatan, found a local rescue (CARMA) who would take more than one cat, but I wasn't too sure about carrying two (by hand) while security was screening the cat carrier... So, she arranged for one cat, and did all the paperwork in advance. We met on...

Sending a private message. I'm interested in it if it's still unsold.

Already got 4 cats, so I can't adopt one more--but I did reach out to their FB page (before I saw the direct e-mail) to see if I can help fly a cat to the US on 9/9/2023.

Late to the party. Compared with many of you, I'm still a newbie at CocoView, but I've been in a beach house (next trip, first week in September, I'll be in the resort-owned beach house just past the overwater cabanas), an overwater cabana, and an oceanview. I typically don't spend a lot of time...

Anyone know what the thread size is for the Zeagle Covert BCD dump valve? Are they the same threads for all BCDs? I'm wanting to make a fitting where I can put my shop vac to blow exhaust air into the BCD to help dry out the bladder after I rinse it. Maybe I'm being a bit too OCD... Anyway, if...

Nice report, thank you. From where I am, CocoView is a bit of a haul (basically, I need to overnight at the final US airport that has a non-stop to RTB), but once you're there it's easy. Warm water? check. Lots of interesting critters? check. Solo diver OK? check. Dive op & hotel op? check. No...

You can wave at me at the airport on Sep. 2: I'm arriving (American Airlines and the US Passport Office permitting) on 9/2.

I already made plans for 2023. Looking at 2024, maybe end of April, and Puerto Galera.

Contact the reservations office, and ask about Playa Miguel beach houses or the CocoView-owned beach houses. A beach house at 4 is less expensive in general than two double-occupancy rooms. Some beach houses are easier walking distance. This September, I'm in Coco Casa, which is the first beach...

I've been there once in October (not sure whether it was early or late October). The only thing I didn't like was that the sun set earlier in the day. The night dive was literally a night dive after dinner if you gave yourself time to eat before the night dive. If you did a twilight dive, you...

I've done a dive trip in Cozumel once, and in Puerto Morelos (between Cancun and Playa Del Carmen) once. I've found that the dive ops do take care of more inexperienced divers. Drift diving will not be a problem, but you may find re-boarding the dive boats to be, umm, entertaining... I had a...

On my Brigade, they either came with the pockets already on the upper band, or I suspect I moved them there myself ten years ago... Just flip them upside down, so the velcro is on the inner part and can stick under where the tank is. The quick release won't work upside down--if your buddy needs...

Zeagle Brigade (Ranger harness with Escape wing)--it was something that Scubatoys came up with a while back, but I don't think they sell it anymore. This one has a medium waist, but a small shoulder (I'm 5'7", weigh about 160 lbs, and I wear M/L men's T-shirts). The bladder claims to lift 35 lb...

Tim Blanton's video on youtube about Coco Villa: Go to about 25 seconds in for the location from an overhead drone view. See this screenshot from Google Maps for my "distance measuring" approach.

Well, you could theoretically haul a tank and all your gear from the dive lockers (using a golf cart), but what's the point... Using Google Maps, Coco Villa is approximately 16.358886, -86.427409. The distance to the dive lockers is ~1970 ft (maybe ~1650 ft to where you might park the golf cart...

Nice report, well done! You might ask the moderators to move it to the Bay Islands sub-forum of the Central America forum.

I use a Underwater Kinetics SL-4 eLED L-1 (I've had it for years now). It uses 4 C-cells, and the C-cells easily last for a one week trip (with use in daytime to highlight something, and for night dives). I don't know that they are easily available anymore. What I like: The O-ring seal is...

Finally got around to picking out photos/videos. Here are 15 photos and 4 videos for y'all. Sorry about the ads (I'm too cheap to get the "no-ads" account at Flickr...) link-to-flickr-album Haven't booked my 2023 trip yet--not quite sure whether to do SE Asia (I've got a hankering to do a trip...

25. Can't complain; dolphins on the surface interval on our first day, a modeling competition between an eagle ray and a turtle the next day, and the usual critter suspects, not to mention new friends on the chow line. October has been a bear at work, I need to make some time to sort and digest...