BClendening
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This was what I was expecting. I'm still in college so my dive trips consist of hitting up lakes around me. I wouldn't consider poor diving still contemplating where I'd like to travel to dive, I'd love to be able to do that!
Where to dive now that I am poor?
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This was what I was expecting. I'm still in college so my dive trips consist of hitting up lakes around me. I wouldn't consider poor diving still contemplating where I'd like to travel to dive, I'd love to be able to do that!
Diving in Jupiter is a blast. I never get tired of it. If you're looking for a bargain, Jupiter Dive Center has a deal that if you purchase 5 dives you get the sixth one free. I take them up a LOT on that!!! The reefs are beautiful, the fish and pelagics plentiful, and it's always fun. Great people on the boat. Never hard to find someone to buddy up with as everyone is friendly and a divemaster is always in the water. Lots of nightlife around for when the day is done and you want to kick back and relax.
Diveral
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As others have suggested North Carolina is a nice car ride away with some world class wreck diving and the warm waters of the gulf steam.
Olympus Dive Center
Discovery Diving Co., Inc. - North Carolina Wreck Diving in the Graveyard of the Atlantic
Atlantic Beach and Morehead City , North Carolina Wreck Diving and Dive Charters to the NC Shipwrecks
Olympus Dive Center
Discovery Diving Co., Inc. - North Carolina Wreck Diving in the Graveyard of the Atlantic
Atlantic Beach and Morehead City , North Carolina Wreck Diving and Dive Charters to the NC Shipwrecks
SkipperJohn
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bowling is pretty cheap
Blazinator
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I have to second the Mermaid on this one. Jupiter Dive Center and that section of SF does offer some great dives. I got Nitrox certed there (70 - 95 ft all dives) and was amazed at always seeing paleagics when descending. Motorcycle sized Goliath groupers barking at you when you're in their territory is quite an experience too. Drift diving is just cool by itself too. Boat trips can add up in cost, though.
I have settled upon Ft Lauderdale, LBTS and Hollywood beach as the ultimate cheap dive experience, in my book, because shore diving a few hundred feet out and you've got nice, warm, clear water with mini-ledges with many of the reef fish of the Keys. You gotta go in summer though, to ensure calm conditions with best vis. Its a bit of work, but no boat fee and no boat schedule is real nice - get to sleep in, go at your own pace, and then chase some puffer fish.
Anyone know any tricks on getting cheap airfares?
I have settled upon Ft Lauderdale, LBTS and Hollywood beach as the ultimate cheap dive experience, in my book, because shore diving a few hundred feet out and you've got nice, warm, clear water with mini-ledges with many of the reef fish of the Keys. You gotta go in summer though, to ensure calm conditions with best vis. Its a bit of work, but no boat fee and no boat schedule is real nice - get to sleep in, go at your own pace, and then chase some puffer fish.
Anyone know any tricks on getting cheap airfares?
Try the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i. The cheapest airfare can be booked if you are able to fly on Thursdays.
mksmith713
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Dude....How POOR is poor?
You could drive down to Tampa, catch a Carnival cruise for $599.00 for a seven day Western Caribbean and dive Grand Cayman, Coz, Belize and Roatan on a single trip.
I live in Maryland and that was a serious consideration for my last trip and will probably be my next trip and I'm as poor as a diver can be.
For what it cost for lodging in Coz, you can take the cruise, eat great meals and get to dive 4 great dive spots.
You have to admit, it sure does sound sweet to hop on a boat...chill for the day, have a few nice meals, maybe a movie or lay out on deck, drink in hand, admiring the beauty of the sea, go to sleep, wake up, have breakfast while the boat docks,hop off, go do between 2-4 dives, go back to the boat, have dinner, being exhausted from the great diving, you'll drag your butt to yout cabin, crash hard, wake up and do it all again in a place equally as nice, then again the next day and the next.
Then spend the last day relaxing and cruising back to tampa.
Man, does it get much better than that....on a budget?
You could drive down to Tampa, catch a Carnival cruise for $599.00 for a seven day Western Caribbean and dive Grand Cayman, Coz, Belize and Roatan on a single trip.
I live in Maryland and that was a serious consideration for my last trip and will probably be my next trip and I'm as poor as a diver can be.
For what it cost for lodging in Coz, you can take the cruise, eat great meals and get to dive 4 great dive spots.
You have to admit, it sure does sound sweet to hop on a boat...chill for the day, have a few nice meals, maybe a movie or lay out on deck, drink in hand, admiring the beauty of the sea, go to sleep, wake up, have breakfast while the boat docks,hop off, go do between 2-4 dives, go back to the boat, have dinner, being exhausted from the great diving, you'll drag your butt to yout cabin, crash hard, wake up and do it all again in a place equally as nice, then again the next day and the next.
Then spend the last day relaxing and cruising back to tampa.
Man, does it get much better than that....on a budget?
OP
Ok, ok, ok, beatings officially accepted. Perhaps I took the wrong tack trying to lay a predicate for my question.
And I didn’t mean to imply that I wanted a drinking trip, but one can buy a dollar beer at sidewalk spot in coz and kill two hours pleasantly watching the crowd and talking with the other like minded folk.
So let me try again. I went for years and years without taking a vacation—a vacation was taking Friday off so I had a three day weekend to pressure clean the house. Wasting money to go to the Caribbean was inconceivable. I had given up scuba diving 20 years ago when I left south Florida.
Three years ago, I met my wife and she converted me—first to taking vacation and then to scuba diving again. I became an addict. She also convinced me to stop letting my vacation days lapse—2008 will be the first time in my life I have taken all my vacation days (I hope). But because I have been a steady eddy and she has been a job hopper I have a lot more vacation than she does so some of my trips have been solo.
That is the crux of my question.
Cozumel seems to work out well solo. Live aboards, as someone mentioned are good for going solo (but a bit pricy).
I was really just trying figure out whether a solo dive trip to south Florida would work and do you think the savings on airfare would get eaten up by other expenses.
Or are there any other places I am overlooking for the same kind of experience, Utila comes to mind as an example.
And I didn’t mean to imply that I wanted a drinking trip, but one can buy a dollar beer at sidewalk spot in coz and kill two hours pleasantly watching the crowd and talking with the other like minded folk.
So let me try again. I went for years and years without taking a vacation—a vacation was taking Friday off so I had a three day weekend to pressure clean the house. Wasting money to go to the Caribbean was inconceivable. I had given up scuba diving 20 years ago when I left south Florida.
Three years ago, I met my wife and she converted me—first to taking vacation and then to scuba diving again. I became an addict. She also convinced me to stop letting my vacation days lapse—2008 will be the first time in my life I have taken all my vacation days (I hope). But because I have been a steady eddy and she has been a job hopper I have a lot more vacation than she does so some of my trips have been solo.
That is the crux of my question.
Cozumel seems to work out well solo. Live aboards, as someone mentioned are good for going solo (but a bit pricy).
I was really just trying figure out whether a solo dive trip to south Florida would work and do you think the savings on airfare would get eaten up by other expenses.
Or are there any other places I am overlooking for the same kind of experience, Utila comes to mind as an example.
When I dive Jupiter, I stay in Stuart for over half the price. I think the most I paid for a decent hotel was $50 a night. When I dive with the Jupiter Dive Center, I did both the 2 tank dives am and pm trips to make the most out of my weekend. Jupiter Dive Center, Scuba diving lessons at a PADI 5 Star facility, daily scuba diving trips in Jupiter, Florida. Jupiter is also a little closer than W. Palm.
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