US divers - maybe more local diving due to the CV?

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Is it worth flying from Europe to dive in Florida ?

Most definitely it is if they would let you in. Please note that Florida is HUGE with several different types of diving and environment. You will have to stay for a long while to sample all of the types of diving and locations FL has to offer. Diving in FL, and the continental USA, is grossly underrated and people don't appreciate what they have in terms of quality and variety of diving in the US. One of my top rated "wishes" is to take a year or two off from Libya and go back to the US to dive along the east and west coasts and possibly try diving the great lakes. FL will take few months to explore for me :)


It will be VERY different for you coming from the UK, like the difference between heaven and earth :)
 
im lucky I have a private beach and a lake 30 feet from my back door and 10 mins away a deep very clear lake goes to 230 feet ......but it needs to soften up to liquid before I can avail myself of it .............
 
My dive plans will change if I am unable to travel internationally. I typically do 3 overseas trips a year. Occasionally 4. I also dive locally and am fortunate to have a private shore dive site that I can frequent and I would anticipate doing a lot more diving there this year than I normally would. If Florida opens back up, I would anticipate multiple trips there to dive and a few dedicated trips to So Cal and the Channel Islands. I dived the weekend before last at my local and privately owned shore dive site. I was the only one there on both Saturday and Sunday:

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I have a spot similar to this about an hours drive away...my issue with doing this is getting gas fills while trying to maintain social distancing...and staying away from non essential businesses that are not supposed to be open anyway......not to mention being alone in a very isolated area that in my case I know for sure isn't getting any traffic...and not much point in telling anyone where I am...and if I'm not back in five hours send help...as I've probably been ''gone'' for at least four hours...

Little different if you can fill your own cylinders...and have a ''secret spot''...but you're still alone and isolated...

I can wait for as long as it takes...have too...no options...

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Me and my lady friend went to the local lake the other day diving for my bday. I have dove here once or twice on occasion looking for "buried treasure." It has been 6 months since my last dive here and surprisingly not as much trash accumulation as I had imagined since I last cleaned up the area. Visibility sucks but its fun to take a pack of crackers and feed the juvenille bass and bream. Keep hoping I'll get lucky and stumble upon some costas
 
This is primarily for divers in the US -

If international travel is still very limited, but you can travel within the US, do any of you vacation divers think you might take up more local/US diving? AKA - if you've gone to Coz, would you do Florida if you can't get out of the country? Or would you take a dip in your local quarry or lake?

I guess it comes down to: do you want to dive at all costs or if you can't get to warm water, you just won't dive?

I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open this season to see if there are more Great Lakes virgins because they can't dive elsewhere. It's a lot easier diving if you can just drive there, especially under these conditions.

EDIT: I am not talking about this weekend. I'm talking summer.
All of my core gear is stuck behind locked doors waiting for annual service at various dive shops. Otherwise, I would be exploring every local quarry to get some reps in for deeper diving in Lake Superior this upcoming season. My double’s set of LP98’s should have been finished over a week ago, they are delayed. My drysuit is getting a new P-valve and it is also delayed. My regulators...same story. I have a single AL40 and deco reg filled with 100% that has been staring at me for the last 4 weeks. I’m losing my mind. I don’t have a single logged dive in Lake Superior, just a handful of wrecks out of Lake Michigan I squeezed in last year. I anticipate this being the year I figure out my thermal protection for my feet.
 
All of my core gear is stuck behind locked doors waiting for annual service at various dive shops. Otherwise, I would be exploring every local quarry to get some reps in for deeper diving in Lake Superior this upcoming season. My double’s set of LP98’s should have been finished over a week ago, they are delayed. My drysuit is getting a new P-valve and it is also delayed. My regulators...same story. I have a single AL40 and deco reg filled with 100% that has been staring at me for the last 4 weeks. I’m losing my mind. I don’t have a single logged dive in Lake Superior, just a handful of wrecks out of Lake Michigan I squeezed in last year. I anticipate this being the year I figure out my thermal protection for my feet.
Drysuit and heated socks :wink:
 
I’m no longer interested in my local diving, so I won’t be diving until travel is possible/reasonable. (Had a big Indo trip soon which obviously won’t be happening.) I have plenty of other local activities which hopefully will be. I wouldn’t mind diving in Florida, but that’s not local (to me) and I’d probably never talk Mr Damsel into it. By the time diving FL is a real option, I expect some Caribbean spots might be as well anyway.
 
Is it worth flying from Europe to dive in Florida ?
No. Not unless you have a friend in Florida who is familiar with the diving and can guide you. Otherwise you'll probably just end up in Key Largo on a cattle boat.
 
The majority of my diving is local anyways.

As someone mentioned, Im worried there wont be a business to provide me air when the lockdown ends.

I am FEENING to dive though. It'll be the first thing I do once we get the green light.

I do believe its something we can do while still maintaining social distancing, but for the time being I think its selfish to dive, especially as I would be crossing from a higher infected county to a lower infected county.
 

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