If you could only dive in one spot for the rest of your life...

[escapeartist]

.....where would it be? I'm just curious. I've only been diving in Playa del Carmen, Plettenberg Bay (South Africa), Cozumel and Lake Minnewanka (Banff National Park). Out of my limited experience, I'd pick Cozumel.

Okay go...

 

[TSandM]

The caves in Mexico.

Funny story: I had an instructor once tell me that he felt that way, and I asked him whether it was because they were so beautiful. He said, "No, not at all; I'd dive there because it's so EASY. Clear water, no waves, walls to guide you, a ceiling to give you reference . . . It's the easiest diving there is!"

(Now, of course, he was trained . . . but I thought it was a funny answer.)

 

[Underwater Ogre]

Uhmm...I guess I could swim anywhere I wanted if I was in the ocean...yeah...I'll take the my ole stomping grounds, Steep Island BC. Always something different to see and not piles of cattle boats with long finned groms beating up the site like the warm water.

I know I am cheating a bit...oh well...I didnt see any rules

 

[Wiilldd1]

I have to go with Coz. Then you have the cenotes close by. The best of both worlds.

The warm water and great viz is what it is about. No more cold water, dry suit, and all that entails!

 

[Wisnu]

Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia for
Shore diving, few meters from your breakfast, easy, warm water, no current - great wreck, fringe reef, coral garden, steep wall - all there with outstanding marine diversity, makro/muck diving, jackfish school, baracuda, shark, mola-mola (if lucky)
they will bring your gear and set-up a meter from water, massage after diving for less than 10 bucks

 

[Papa_Bear]

Fiji, Soft Coral Capital of the World!

 

[escapeartist]

The caves in Mexico.

Funny story: I had an instructor once tell me that he felt that way, and I asked him whether it was because they were so beautiful. He said, "No, not at all; I'd dive there because it's so EASY. Clear water, no waves, walls to guide you, a ceiling to give you reference . . . It's the easiest diving there is!"

(Now, of course, he was trained . . . but I thought it was a funny answer.)

I had a feeling you'd say the caves in Mexico! That is a funny story. Makes sense!

I know I am cheating a bit...oh well...I didnt see any rules

No rules! I like that answer...closer to home for me! My father-in-law has been diving all over the world and still swears by BC. He has this spot he just adores. I can't remember what it's called though.

Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia for
Shore diving, few meters from your breakfast, easy, warm water, no current - great wreck, fringe reef, coral garden, steep wall - all there with outstanding marine diversity, makro/muck diving, jackfish school, baracuda, shark, mola-mola (if lucky)
they will bring your gear and set-up a meter from water, massage after diving for less than 10 bucks

Oh wow...that place now has a spot on my Bucket List! Sounds amazing.

I have to go with Coz. Then you have the cenotes close by. The best of both worlds. The warm water and great viz is what it is about. No more cold water, dry suit, and all that entails!

I agree! When I went diving in Lake Minnewanka it was freeezing. Our instructors were in drysuits but we were in wetsuits. There was still snow and ice everywhere (early spring) and I got so cold I involuntarily started to cry. Everytime I went under my head got one of those brain freezes you get when you eat something cold too quickly...honestly one of the worst experience of my life. I did my first two open water dives there and I just couldn't do the third and fourth....I did those in South Africa. Much better!

 

[robint]

that is really tough. I like all kinds of diving, cold water and warm water, coral reefs and rocky reefs, deep and shallow, boat and shore..... if I had to pick one location and cost was not a factor......... Palau. (sheer walls and shallow reefs, sharks and mantas, tons of schooling fish, caves and wrecks, big fish and tiny fish....) It is the only place we have been that has so much diversity. I have been told that I would feel the same way about Indonesia and Philippines, we just haven't made it there to see for ourselves.

robin

 

[bvmjethead]

I was hoping I could be the first to say Palau.

Bora Bora would be my second choice.

My third Belize.

 

[caymaniac]

I've been to South Africa and the diving is good but the diving off New Britain PNG has been the best I've seen, with diversity and the greatest species numbers of coral and fish.