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Matt Beckwith:6274975:Brac Reef Resort on Cayman Brac has a great special. If you book by March 31st they have a 7nt, all inclusive with 17 dives for $1635. Airfare for us out of Columbia, SC was $633/ea. Gets excellent reviews on Trip Advisor. We booked through Maduro Dive vacations. When we went to Bonaire last summer the most dives we did was 17 over 6 diving days. Bonaire is awesome. We stayed in Coral Paradise Resort. $2084 for 7nts, rental truck, unlimited shore dives through Buddy Dive + 6 boat dives. (free nitrox), and pickup from airport. Gated property, next door to Capt Dons. We will go back again one day.
I think your experience level must be greater than 0-24 then. You might want to update your profile. Because with these 2 trips alone, you've gotten in 33 at least! Oh I see, you haven't gone to Cayman Brac yet. But you're already Nitrox certified?
This reminds me, I need to start a new thread about Nitrox...
Here's a diver with 0-24 dives who's already Nitrox certified. I just wonder, I know that the reason to use Nitrox is to be able to spend longer under water. But is the advantage that great that one should consider it early in one's diving career? I think of Nitrox as kind of an advanced thing, but maybe it isn't.
Let's say you're out on a boat with 10 other divers and a DM, and the dive is to 70 fsw, and everybody is following the DM to the dive site, and surfacing together afterward. Does it spoil the dive if all but one of the divers is using nitrox, and the whole group has to surface 20 minutes early because the one guy isn't Nitrox certified?
Besides, Nitrox makes me nervous. I mean, I don't want to have a seizure. They say that isn't a concern if you don't go below the MOD, but still... It just makes me prefer to stay with EAN21.
Nitrox is a great tool to have. More bottom time, less surface interval and youll more than likely feel a bit more energized after a dive. Keep it above 1.4 PPO2 and youll be fine.