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We are planning our trip end of July / beginning of August for 1 week to 10 days to Philippines. While we are pretty experienced (around 300 dives) we have mostly dived in Caribbean so diving in Philippines would be pretty amazing wherever we go. After reading through several threads here we...

Hi all, I was in Utila 3 years ago and dove with Alton's. While it was generally good, there were a couple of things I wasn't happy with so want to see if anyone had better experience elsewhere: 1. bottom time: I was told I can dive my air but that wasn't the case since they need to be back...

Hi all, We know someone in Oman so have been thinking about making a trip out there. Question is - is there enough diving for say a week or more? Our likely dates are late July. We have dived mostly Caribbean but have been to Red Sea, Maldives and Galapagos. Thanks.

We recently came back from two weeks in Galapagos. Our trip was as follows: Naturist cruise (no diving) from Isabella (we were catching up with the boat that had left Santa Cruz) - flying into Santa Cruz and catching the ferry to Isabella. This cruise finished in Baltra island and we stayed in...

Hello, It's time for a 2nd BCD - I'm a recreational diver and at times I will wear up to 7mm but not dry suit (though that might happen at some point). Currently I have Zeagle Lazer and what I realized from various diving trips is that it is easier to unbuckle weight belt and hand it to the...

Wanted to share our recent experience in Isla Mujeres. we decided to go and try our luck with sailfish snorkeling the 2nd week of Jan. We organised it through Squalo Divers. Unfortunately the weather was not good half of the week so we only got to go out once. Squalo didn't have enough people...

I've just managed to book a trip next year in August which is very exciting. It will be our first time in Galapagos so we are wondering whether to add on a topside trip either before or after the liveaboard trip either land based or one of the cruises. Any thoughts / recommendations? I'm not...

We just came back from a week on T&C Explorer. Overall a very enjoyable week. 1. Boat I won't dwell much on the boat as there are other more detailed reports re configurations. It is a very comfortable boat with great set up for gear etc. Note for night dives they required tank lights as well...

Hi everyone, I have finally decided that perhaps I should get a AI wrist computer in addition to my Sherwood Wisdom 2. This is to have some redundancy as currently I don't have any other gauge, and also perhaps it would be more convenient. My Wisdom 2 has about 230 dives so I'm not sure how long...

Thanks to the advices on the forum we decided to go for T&C explorer in May next year. After the trip we can either fly back on Saturday or Sunday... We are not really beach people. Is it worthwhile staying on for an extra night? I've never been to T&C and am not sure what is there to do...

We spent a very nice week aboard the Mistral late July. It was the first time for us in the red sea. Our comparable experience so far was the Maldives. The boat: Mistral has four rooms upper deck with double beds and eight with bunk beds below. We were in the upper deck room which was OK. It...

We are going a live aboard from Sharm end of July and our tour agent is trying to sell us pre paid visa service which only means their rep will give us a visa when we get there rather than queuing at the visa desk. For this they want 20GBP which is over 30 USD. The visa cost is now 25 USD so its...

We spent a week in Tobago during the Carnival to take in some fun and diving. I'll focus on diving here. We stayed in Crown Point at Sandy Point Beach Club, a timeshare and dove with Extra Divers both in Pigeon Point and Speyside. One thing to note is that both operations exercise 1hr surface...

Hello Scubaboarders, I will be moving between jobs soon and have 3.5 weeks to myself. I found a couple of RCI timeshares in Fiji - one is Fiji Club at Pacific Harbour and the other Malolo Lalai Lagoon Resort Club. Currently I am considering either one week in each place or two weeks at Malolo...

Hi everyone, I'm thinking of doing Red Sea liveaboard in August, and wondered whether I should tack on a few more days and go to Oman to dive Al Daymaniyat. I have never been to Oman but I've been to nearby countries and I know it will be very hot so I don't think we'll do much other than dive...

My partner and I are getting married this year in August and we would like to go on a diving trip to somewhere different afterwards, mid to late August. We live in Bermuda so we dive when we can here, plus been to Cozumel, Little Cayman and Aquacat out of Bahamas together and my partner has been...

First time in Cozumel. We did the puddle jumper from Cancun airport to Cozumel which was a little difficult due to lack of direction from T3 where we arrived. We took the free transfer coach from T3 to T1 and the whole terminal seemed closed, but the Maya Air entrance is on the side where I...