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Back from our trip and had another great experience with Casa del Bucea. Not much has changed from my comments above. They were happy to pick us up at our hotel dock and even gave us a ride back on our last day so we didn’t need to walk gear back. I broke my collarbone 4 weeks before we dove...

In 2016 we dove with Casa del Buceo and are back with them in a couple of weeks. They are located mid island therefore removed from the main tourist areas. In 2016 there were 4 of us and they gave us our own boat Which allowed us to pick some dives we wanted to try. They are quite responsive on...

Just bumping this as it is still available. also to answer some questions: From North America the simplest way to get there is through Fiji Airways to Nadi (Fiji) and then book a flight to Honiara on a different carrier (Air Niugini for example) since Fiji isn’t flighting to The Solomons...

Hi all, Due to the most bizarre of reason an airline has ever given for cancelling a flight (the runway was wearing out their tires too fast…but every other airline is flying to the island?) Anyway, due to this issue we are stuck, unable to get to Honiara for our trip. We booked under a...

I recently witnessed a similar example to the OP. We were on a wall dive on a day with a reasonable amount of current against us along with waves and surge. The dive site started on one side of the wall, went out to a bit of a point, and then we turned and went along the other side of the wall...

Just back from 2 weeks at CCV, managed to make it through fine. We had many good days of diving and it was great to see everyone down there again. We took a day off due to an ear infection and were pretty relaxed therefore from our 12 days of diving we got in a mere 36 dives. Averaged almost 64...

Yes, very happy, is was glaaaaaaasy this morning. Could see the mainland, Guanaja, and the vis is some of the best I’ve seen here. It blew a bit from the north yesterday bringing in the AKR fleet, but it’s been a pretty awesome week so far. Hoping this lasts for another week.

Roatan in the rainy season can be very hit or miss. We typically go around Xmas or in February. We’ve had trips like yours where it seemed to do nothing but rain and we’ve had trips with the odd dump of rain. Mother Nature, shrugs. The sand fleas/noseeums are there. It doesn’t seem easy to get...

Every time we’ve been to CCV we rent. As Doc says, Patty’s gear is in better shape than any gear I would own and as “basic recreational divers” <spit> her gear is perfect. We’ve also seen a number of people blow a hose or have a newly serviced reg fail. In my case they just swap out the hose and...

I will share an experience of someone on a recent liveaboard I was on. I'm not sure what insurance the individual had but it wasn't DAN. The diver ended up bent and needed to be transferred by speedboat to the chamber. The insurance company fought the claim throughout his incident. They were...

I say kudos to the OP for deciding to skip the second dive. It’s a good lesson that you know yourself best and going with your gut is often the right decision no matter what. Even if you felt fine, in my books, you made the right decision to call the dive. You also made the right call to call...

Both our Mares Nemo Excels flooded this year and we’re looking at replacements. The solar options have of course caught our eye as there is no battery to replace therefore no flooding. (I have the Citizen eco drive dive watch which I love) Reviews on the Z1 are hard to find, anyone here have one...

Trip number 9 for us Feb 15 week on the red boat I’ll be another year older on the 14th...and the new number now ends in a zero.

Maybe off topic but I see Kirk is now the dive op manager. I assume that means he’s no longer DMing on the red boat with captain Dave. Does anyone know who is DMing the red boat?

I watched an experienced diver do a similar check. One of the...i’ll say lesser experienced divers was freaking out that he had bubbles coming from his tank and wanted to get in there and tighten it for him. Experienced diver had him back off and then he unbuckled and spun his gear around to...

That's fair. It was cool to see but it wasn't going to break our trip if we didn't. In my view it was more akin to seeing Trevi fountain or Castel Sant'Angelo. I get that it could be Colosseum level though as we all have different ranking.

We were just there 2 weeks ago and while the numbers were not like what we've seen in pictures, where it looks like jellyfish soup, there were still lots. There was a jelly every meter or two which we actually liked as there was space between the jellies that we could swim around them and not...

We're going in March and the dive op we booked with told me there are mostly small jellies with a few big ones.

anyone go on a trip with Master Liveaboards? We lucked out on their crazy 50% off special and are on the December 9th “Best of the Central Atolls” trip. Just curious if anyone has direct experience with Master and any insights into the dives. Mostly curious if all the dives will be negative...

The only thing we didn’t do in the trifecta is dive on GC. Had we spent a couple more days we might have opted for Cobalt or booked something on our own. The outer islands are more what we like though, nice and chill. We flew over to CB. Being newbies we didn’t know that might have been an...