West Palm Beach - Pura Vida Divers

Dove this AM out of West Palm Beach with Pura Vida Divers...

The op was professional, courteous and attentive. Once our gear was at the dock it was loaded for us. Russ and Jake did a great job with the newer divers (There was a group of 5 from out of state... and we could tell they were newer divers). They helped those who needed help and left the rest of us alone... unless they were asking if we wanted another drink from the cooler, or some more to eat.

They dive a group on the reef. We let them know I would be with a camera and have the experience to do the drift away from the group (if that was OK?) They accommodated our request without batting an eye... "We'll drop you two before everyone else... go at your own pace... shoot a sausage when you begin your ascent..." We couldn't have asked for better service from an op that knew nothing about us (except from observation, and our dive credentials before boarding)!

Second dive, Russ took us aside and gave us the rundown right through to the cave and Turtle Mound. Great service!

Dove So. Flower Garden and The Breakers (4th Window) (60' reef systems) all the way to Turtle Mound.

Bottom Temp 78F
Partly Cloudy
Seas 5-7 in at the start 2-4 by the second dive
Vis: 100+

Something about hitting the water and seeing the bottom (60') + 40-50' of bottom in every direction... It reminds me of... VICTORY!

These dives included a Lemon Shark swim by... Unfortunately, it was moving too fast, and stayed away from our group to get a picture... (maybe next time!)

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I can't remember the last time I ran into a Bigeye... They were everywhere!


















Thanks Pura Vida Divers... We will be back!

Grate pics. Have made that dive many times. I think it is grate. Thanks for the pics. if it is OK I would like to send them to a friend. I don't have a camera and he asked me for some pics.

Here's a link to all the pics from the day...

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=3086

Feel free to send that link on to your friend

Really nice photos, glad to hear a good reveiw of Pura Vida as I will be taking their Rescue Course in June. Thanks CoolTech.

pura vida is da best!

I dove with them in december of last year, after the first day i didnt even bother looking into another charter operation i was so happy with the service, dean tried to get me on another charter boat the last day i could dive but it wasnt going to be with them, i told him i would wait and see what happened and if they werent going out i wasnt going out. By any chance was BB on one of the boats that you were on, he was a blast to dive with.