DM in SoCal--new to SB!

[Harley1962]

Howdy All!

I'm a PADI DM with about 350 dives, and just found this great resource!

Would be interested in reading about good dive destinations for Xmas/ New Year's time--prefer liveaboards, but unfortunately, cost IS an issue...would like to keep cost around $1500 for eveything (including air from LA) for 5-7 days diving--hopefully somewhere "tropical"!

Where else is a good place to post for ideas and suggestions on this??

Thanks in advance,
Harley

 

[ScubaFreak]

welcome to the board harley, and as u said yourself- you got a great resource here to find out anything you eed to know!

SF

 

[Matt the Aquaman]

Hello there Harley,
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[TekDiveGirl]

Welcome Harley! What part of SoCal are you from? I'm from SAn Diego but living in Waterless Hell *aka* Atlanta!

Wish I could help you with cheap tropical liveaboards - Blackbeards is the only one I have heard of as being "cheap."

Anyway good luck and enjoy the board!

Kimber

 

[DandyDon]

Howdy All!

I'm a PADI DM with about 350 dives, and just found this great resource!

Would be interested in reading about good dive destinations for Xmas/ New Year's time--prefer liveaboards, but unfortunately, cost IS an issue...would like to keep cost around $1500 for eveything (including air from LA) for 5-7 days diving--hopefully somewhere "tropical"!

Where else is a good place to post for ideas and suggestions on this??

Thanks in advance,
Harley

Hardly any destination is cheap that week, but - a few of us are going on a Blackbeards to the Bahamas that week. It's in your price range! There's a lady DM from the Northwest, a lady newbie from Detroit, and this fumbling diver from Texas, plus many other non SBs. They've been full for some time, but vacancies will appear as the rest of the money comes due this month. PM me if you'd be interested.

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[Dan Kom]

Welcome to SB!

 

[Mako Mark]

welcome harley,

hey, a liveaboard that I want to do is right out of So cal to isla de guadalupe to do the cage diving there. It is a little more than my (and possibly your) budget unless you save the airfare and put that towards the trip.

 

[headhunter]

Welcome to ScubaBoard! :happywave

Spend some time in the SoCal section of our California Kelp Divers forum and you'll find a bunch of people to go diving with here in SoCal.

As far as tropical trips go, you may want to start checking out the different travel forums we have here on ScubaBoard.

Don't forget to fill out your profile and dive info, so that we can add context to your future posts. Also, once we know where you are geographically from your profile, you may find that you'll have a whole bunch of new dive buddies to choose from locally.

Dive safe!

Christian

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[baitedstorm]

Heya Harley, welcome to the board!! No clue on the airfare, but you can stay in Key Largo for a week (it's not a liveaboard but, hey it's tropical) pretty cheap. Good luck, let us know if you find something amazing :fruit:

Cheers,
Vickie