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I am trying to find a good place to book a dive package in Cozumel. If anyone has any they like please let me know.
Just got back from diving Belize, Cayman and Honduras and it was awesome! Loved Anthonys Key Resort on Roatan... what a great place.
Thanks,
Lynn
Koh Samui is Thailand's third largest island. It is still covered with coconut trees, jungle and rugged rocks of granite sloping into the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Siam. Samui measures 21km in its length and is 25km wide.
Nowadays Koh Samui is a preferred destination for divers who are looking for an up-market western infrastructure in the Gulf of when compared to what is available on Koh Tao the main diving destination in this area.
It's happened to all of us, you descend to 18 metres and suddenly you feel the urge. You can either try and hold it, ruin the dive for everyone else, who won't be too pleased to learn the dive they have been preparing for all morning ended for a toilet stop, or pee in your wetsuit!
In reality, there is no real health risk, because urine is actually sterile, the only symptom of wetsuit urinating in your wetsuit is the temporary warm feeling.
Scuba diving is an equipment intensive sport. Breathing and exploring is not normal for us land-walking mammals. Scuba diving requires the training, familiarization and use of all types of equipment. As a diver matures, the use of different equipment for different types of diving only adds to the complexity of equipment selection. Equipment selection should not be a cavalier or impulsive purchase. It is life support equipment. Proper training, fit, comfort and practice makes this equipment feel like a second skin. Proper maintenance is essential to the proper performance of all Scuba gear.
A group of us dove just west of Beismeyer Point yesterday. Thanks to Bill, Beth (shore support) Josh and Ryan for a fun day of diving.
We dove off the point that is west of Beismeyer Point. There wasn't a lot of boat traffic early in the morning churning up the lake in our area so vis was about 15-20 feet for the first 20-25 feet of depth. It pretty much remained that way all day.
URLs of (mostly) Recreational SCUBA Certifying Agencies
(plus some safety, research, medical, history, public safety, skin diving, standards, and technician)
High Springs Florida is a popular choice for technical dive training. Besides the many cave diving sites, there are also some legendary technical diving instructors who call this area home. And, High Springs is home to the GUE (Yes, that's GUE headquarters in the attached pic- right beside the True Value hardware.)
The first look at a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) can be a bit surreal; the primary components look something found in a sci-fi movie. The large breathing hoses, small HP tanks filled with Oxygen and a diluent gas. A “scrubber” canister, counter lungs and on some units multiple computers. Of course since this is a type of SCUBA gear it also requires a harness arrangement coupled with a Buoyancy bladder. So what’s the attraction? After all the only thing divers want to do is spend time underwater.
Open Circuit SCUBA is the most common technology used by divers; it is simple, reliable and easy to use. The SCUBA Regulator reduces the pressure from the high pressure in the tank down to ambient pressure so the diver can breathe. The exhaled gas is then released into the water column, basically wasted. Now this isn’t a bad thing but in order to make longer dives it is necessary to carry a larger gas supply. Double 80 cu/ft tanks weigh approx. 90lbs. and create more drag for the diver and also require more effort to swim. The sound created by the exhaled gas is loud and noisy, occasionally scaring away the fish we came to see.
I am a captain and dive instructor in key largo. I really love what I do. My office has a change of scenery each day and most time every few minutes. I share my backyard with divers from all over the world.
Today we did a drift dive, we saw turtles, and lots of fish. This was the easy way to see the sites.
The second dive we saw everything from jawfish with eggs in it's mouth to nurse sharks, peterson shrimp, and quite a few lobsters.
We also have wrecks, and much more to offer....
