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No tears baby shampoo diluted 4 parts water / 1 part baby shampoo in a squirt bottle. Cheap and works like a charm.

Thanks everybody for the input on Aquaworld. We just learned that Aqua Safari has been booted out of the Cozumel Palace after 21 years there, replaced by Aquaworld. We've only had outstanding experiences with Aqua Safari on numerous trips to the island. After reading this thread and many...

The only guy I'd worry about who pees in his wetsuit is the dude who takes fish oil supplements. Just might make the shark wonder if there's a new neoprene coated menu item in the water. Just kidding, of course. Maybe.

Nitrogen off-gassing, the sleep-aid of champions.

Ah, Palace actually has a property on Isla Mujeres called the Isla Mujeres Palace. They took over and remodeled an existing property. Here's the address from their website: Carretera Garrafon, Vista Alegre, Mz 63 Lt1, SM 007 Isla Mujeres, Q. Roo 77400

Hola Guido. My wife and I are Palace members but we don't always dive with the resort dive op. We were just looking at booking a Spring Vacation to Isla Mujeras, our first trip to the island. How far are you from the Palace property?

My mask fits my face nicely and I wear the strap so it is barely snug, just enough to keep the mask in place. That said, if the strap is not positioned correctly on my head the mask leaks. Moving the strap 1/2" can make the difference between a leaky mask and a completely leak free dive. If...

Amazing........when you look at the picture you can feel the connection between them.

Like BonaireDan my wife and I each have a small BCD knife and dive shears. The one time my wife got hung up in balled fishing line in a kelp forest, she was able to calmly extract herself without use of either. Our big dive knives are cool looking, but they just gather dust on the...

For five years I used to fly up to twenty times a year for business, all domestic. Each trip usually involved a minimum of four flights, with an occasional six or eight flight trip. My bags failed to make it to a destination the same time as me about twice a year, and weather was almost always...

At the time my wife and I took the AOW class our experience consisted of OW, a refresher course, three ocean dives, and two cenote dives. We probably survived those five post OW dives by over-preparing the basics and being too ignorant to know better. That said, my wife and I had an...

Interesting responses. I've never seen anyone dive with the mask under the hood, but obviously people do. Over the hood for me and my wife with the hood's face opening trimmed so that it overlaps the mask skirt. When we're cold water diving we add the hood/mask skirt fit to our buddy check to...

Prior to our first night dive all we had done was read the night diving section in the PADI advanced manual. People said we didn't need to bother with the certification, and now having dived at night, I agree. Still, as I was riding the boat to my first night dive in Cozumel I started to feel...

Man this is one expensive thread. I was just killing time before heading to work and my wife was reading over my shoulder. She got all excited looking at the pics above. Additionally, she has a connection to the space industry. As soon as she read Ann Marie's statement "It's like being in...

Visually, depth is relative. Assuming neutral buoyancy, when you're horizontal looking at a sandy bottom at 60 feet it doesn't look or feel any different than being horizontal at 20 feet. There are a bunch of depth considerations to learn though and you'll be taught to respect them...

Like others, Sea Hunter, Flipper, JC, and snorkeling in Florida and the Bahamas on Spring Break stirred my curiosity. I just figured it was one of those things I'd never do once kids, long hours at work, and increasing responsibility came along. Vacations were spent educating the kids (museums...

Chasing depth for divers reminds me of chasing altitude for pilots. Flying at higher altitudes just gets boring because there's so much less to see, but there are advantages to flying there for distance and fuel consumption. I always had much more fun flying in the dirt and watching the world...

Can't go wrong with either. My wife and I have Delta 4s and love them.

Cenote diving in the Yucatan. I spent part of my youth in the southern US. I spend many weekends with my parents and sister walking through the tourist caves, oogling at the colorful and varied cave formations. To float by the same formations in crystal clear water in the Yucatan just left...

Courtney Dear, as a Marine Biology major, how'd you get such a fear of sharks? I acknowledge that it is very real for you, but chances are good it is a fear/phobia that can be overcome with knowledge and facts. First, there have been very few attacks on scuba divers. The only one I know...