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That's an excellent point. You'll have a much better time by going to Alexander during a weekday. The entry fee is only about $8, so the place really gets crowded on the weekends.

Alexander Springs has a lifeguard on duty during the summer, and there is no requirement to have a dive buddy. It's only 25 feet deep, with crystal clear water, so the main threat is colliding with one of the snorkelers dive-bombing from the surface. It's a small dive site, but I find it useful...

You could contact Alex Blevins, whose dive shop is in South Tampa; it's called Adventure Outfitters. He teaches backmount cave and most of the courses you would find interesting, including DPV Cave too.

We were in Ambergris Caye in early July. At restaurants we had to wear a mask while walking from the entranceway to a table. Masks were mandatory inside all the stores. Otherwise, we didn't wear masks--not on the dive boats, not sitting by the pool, and certainly not while driving our rented...

We just returned from a 10-day stay at Ambergris Caye, Belize. They're in the process of completing maintenance on several of their boats, but the boats were adequate to get us out to the dive sites just beyond the breakers on the reef. Divemasters were top-notch professionals who had a penchant...

I had a major problem with the DC2000 Sealife camera that my wife gave me for Christmas in December 2018. We lived in Maryland at the time, and were moving a few months later, so I did not take it diving immediately. We moved to Florida in summer of 2019 and I set up a boat dive off West Palm...

I am a PADI Divemaster; my goal is to earn an Open Water Instructor certification. In October of next year I expect to move to Newport Naval Station for about 12 months. Is there a dive shop in Newport that periodically offers IDC? I am also interested in tech diving; what would be a good...

My wife and I have very similar taste in dive activities as what you've described. We went to Small Hope Bay Lodge in June 2010, and we highly recommend it. They have super competent divemasters/instructors on their dives, and you can be as mellow or extreme as you wish. I think once in every...

It's time I introduce myself. I'm a PADI Divemaster who intends to take the next step and get into an IDC program. However, my goals are on hold for another eight months while I complete this tour in Kandahar. When I return I expect to move to Newport, RI. Does anyone know if there is a PADI...