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I'll be in Maui next week, staying in Kihei. I want to dive and dive and dive and dive, but I wouldn't mind saving some money by making some of that shore diving with a fun buddy. Anybody free?

Sorry for the length, I like to hear myself talk! Summary: I spent about 9 mostly full days diving, mostly with Ocean Divers or Silent World, occasionally shuffled over to Amoray. I was extremely pleased with boat staff, content but not thrilled with the diving, and very disappointed with...

Or in other words, have I lost my mind? Be warned: approximately a million questions follow. I want to seriously consider the possibility of doing DM+instructor training and spending a few years in the tropics. This summer, I'll find myself at a transition point careerwise (leaving academia)...

I headed to the Keys for some diving this January. I'll have 3-4 days on my own, during which I'll either be insta-buddying or paying for a guide, and I'll want to dive the wrecks and also do as much night diving as possible. Then I'll have a day off and my OW-only friend will join me for six...

So, we had about 5ft of visibility at the Breakwater wall on Saturday, but we still squeezed in some good times (in toasty 54F water)! There were tons of sand dabs -- super fun to play with them :) Lots of nudis and their egg sacs, as usual, plus a few nice big spider and sheep crabs. And...

My buddy found a camera today while we were diving the wall. If you lost yours, send details about the camera, and if it lines up, I'll pass on contact info so she can get it back to you somehow.

I am planning to come down for Bamboo Reef's fun dive on Sunday. Anybody up for diving later on Sunday? I would especially love to do a night dive on the Breakwater wall. Also, I am considering staying through Monday if I can find someone to dive with. ---------- Post added ---------- Good...

I'm guessing this is a bit of a long shot, but here goes :) My sister's coming to the Monterey area from July 29 to August 11 for a music program, and I would love to come down and spend those couple weeks mostly diving... and then I guess I could hang out with her in the evenings :) The trick...

This is sort of a long range question, not at all urgent. Sometime in the next year or two, I would like to take a serious cavern class, largely because I would like to visit some of the Mexican cenotes without doing trust-me dives. At this point, I have no intention of pursuing further cave...

I'm on my LONG journey home, and I'll give more details later, but I just wrapped up a great week with TWD. Many dives on the Liberty, and we also hit Coral Gardens, Seraya, Amed, Mystery Rocks, Kubu, Batu Kelebit, Palung Palung, and the Tulamben dropoff/wall; 33 dives in all! My first time...

Thinking about mask removal and replacement skills... So, it's clear that you want to be able to replace your mask if it should ever come off (say, someone kicks it off), and you can't really practice putting something back on if it hasn't come off in the first place, so we take masks off...

For various reasons, I haven't been able to make a plan for my spring break until now. I have a few ideas, and I'm hoping you might toss out some more. I have March 23 to April 1 free, and I want to squeeze in LOTS of diving. Lots means I would happily do 5 dives a day including night diving...

I'm back home after a few days of great diving with Kaimana Divers. I did most of my 11 dives with Drew, who was totally perfect for me. He goes nice and slow, he found me lots of great critters, and he was excited when I found him some critters :) Off the south side, I got to see the Sea...

I had a very disturbing experience last week, in which an instructor tried to pressure me to penetrate a wreck at night (in which he intended to stir up sand to reduce visibility), knowing virtually nothing about my dive experience. We were in a group which included at least one of his students...

I have a question which feels almost silly -- how do sea animals deal with the changing amount of daylight as seasons change? In most places this is not an enormous swing, but I am going to Iceland at the peak of summer, and I realized that I don't know if it's worth asking about night dives...

Anybody up for a night dive Sunday evening? I was thinking Breakwater, maybe 40-60 minutes, and I'm flexible on the start time. Willing to go as early as you think the octopuses will start coming out :)

Hi, I'm thinking of taking a trip to Roatan in January and have been reading lots of great reviews for Cocoview. I don't have a buddy I can drag along on vacation with me, but it seems like this is a good place for a single diver. In my head, I've decided that CCV is like a liveaboard on...

Anybody looking to sell some soft weights, or have a recommendation for where to get a good deal? I need approx 30lb.

After many delays and distractions, I am finally ready to go diving out here! I'm looking for someone who'd be up for showing me around a bit this week. I can make it down to Monterey anytime over the next week (up to and maybe including Jan 4, happy to go more than once). I'm figuring a...

I just moved to Berkeley and want to get out diving soon. I am a beginner, just a few dives post-certification (and that was in a quarry), looking for some experienced buddies. The big catch is that I don't have a car, so I'm hoping to find someone(s) nearby who can provide transportation...