drrich2
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Start logging with cloud backup so you don't lose your log if you lose a log book. Since you mention a need to 'rebuild it,' I figured maybe you lost it?
Bonaire is indeed a good way to go; I got 30 dives on an 8-day trip, and could've hit 32 likely if I'd been willing to push the issue that Saturday morning.
Live-aboards vary; I hear Blackbeard's offers around 19 dives for the week, Juliet similar, and some Caribbean live-aboards 25 - 27 dives for a week. Cocoview Resort in Roatan, IIRC, offers 2 boat dives, 2 drop-off dives on the way back to the resort from those 2 boat dives (you fin back to the resort, that's your dive) and house reef shore diving (on a huge house reef with a nice wreck), so you can wrack up comparable dive counts.
Picking a Caribbean Live-aboard - Picking a Caribbean Live-Aboard
You can rack up a big dive count in Cozumel pretty cheap, though 4 dives/day there can wear a person out. I got 26 dives in an 8-day trip.
Tres Pelicanos & Casa Mexicana, Cozumel Sept. 2018 Report - Tres Pelicanos/Casa Mexican Trip Report Sept. 2018
My Research Notes from Planning Cozumel Trip - My Research Notes from Planning Cozumel Trip
Any trip is going to have a cost, paid in time, effort and money. For example:
1.) Blackbeard's is cheap on cost, but 19 dives/week is not 25-27. But if you have lots of time, 2 weeks would be a lot of dives. Many people don't find over a week trip workable.
2.) Bonaire is pretty cheap on-island, but airfare is killer. If you could stay 2 weeks and your ear drums hold out, that could average nicely.
3.) Trips to cheap far-flung places sound great, but consider the cost in round-trip travel not just in money but time (e.g.: 2+ days there, 2 days back?) and ordeal (e.g.: I hear Philippine trips from the U.S. can have a 12 hour continuous flight on one leg of the journey). Will you go coach to stay cheap, or pay up for a less miserable sardine can?
Don't forget the coronavirus COVID-19 issue. If you travel to a given destination, is your workplace going to raise a stink about it? If you happen to come back with low-grade fever and a cough, are you looking at a couple weeks missing work? When will this trip (or trips) be?
Bonaire is indeed a good way to go; I got 30 dives on an 8-day trip, and could've hit 32 likely if I'd been willing to push the issue that Saturday morning.
Live-aboards vary; I hear Blackbeard's offers around 19 dives for the week, Juliet similar, and some Caribbean live-aboards 25 - 27 dives for a week. Cocoview Resort in Roatan, IIRC, offers 2 boat dives, 2 drop-off dives on the way back to the resort from those 2 boat dives (you fin back to the resort, that's your dive) and house reef shore diving (on a huge house reef with a nice wreck), so you can wrack up comparable dive counts.
Picking a Caribbean Live-aboard - Picking a Caribbean Live-Aboard
You can rack up a big dive count in Cozumel pretty cheap, though 4 dives/day there can wear a person out. I got 26 dives in an 8-day trip.
Tres Pelicanos & Casa Mexicana, Cozumel Sept. 2018 Report - Tres Pelicanos/Casa Mexican Trip Report Sept. 2018
My Research Notes from Planning Cozumel Trip - My Research Notes from Planning Cozumel Trip
Any trip is going to have a cost, paid in time, effort and money. For example:
1.) Blackbeard's is cheap on cost, but 19 dives/week is not 25-27. But if you have lots of time, 2 weeks would be a lot of dives. Many people don't find over a week trip workable.
2.) Bonaire is pretty cheap on-island, but airfare is killer. If you could stay 2 weeks and your ear drums hold out, that could average nicely.
3.) Trips to cheap far-flung places sound great, but consider the cost in round-trip travel not just in money but time (e.g.: 2+ days there, 2 days back?) and ordeal (e.g.: I hear Philippine trips from the U.S. can have a 12 hour continuous flight on one leg of the journey). Will you go coach to stay cheap, or pay up for a less miserable sardine can?
Don't forget the coronavirus COVID-19 issue. If you travel to a given destination, is your workplace going to raise a stink about it? If you happen to come back with low-grade fever and a cough, are you looking at a couple weeks missing work? When will this trip (or trips) be?