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My husband and I just completed 6 days of diving with Vibrations Dive Center, staying at Oceans Edge Resort so thought we'd share our review. In a nutshell: Highly recommend for those visiting Boracay or those looking for a new place to dive in the Philippines. Healthy Reef with a lot of...

Would you recommend a 4-6 week stay in your area? My husband and I are considering a 3 month stay in the Philippines starting next January and wanted some feedback on best areas (near dive ops) to stay in. We would probably prefer 2 locations so we can get a variety of topside activities and...

Hi, desperately research strobes for my husbands new TG6 setup. He has been happy with TG4 with video lights but with his new TG6, I’d like to get him strobes for underwater macro. I’ve read about TTL, etc but frankly so confused! Can someone pls help me identify decent options under $500...

Hubby has an old iPad and with his birthday and Christmas coming, it’s time to get a new iPad. However, our biggest challenge is ease of downloading and editing videos from our TG4 onto an iPad. Since we travel a lot and use the iPad to watch videos, we really don’t want a heavy laptop. Any...

Looking for insights / recommendations for must see/do dive sites if any in this area. I prefer warm waters...3 mil suits so wasn’t planning to dive but understand that the waters would most likely be warm? Info on dive conditions (viz, stingers, etc) this time of year would be helpful as well...

Enjoying the sunset on our last day of diving before we head back home, so thought we'd share our review of Cabilao Island and Cabilao Sanctuary Dive & Beach Resort. The diving: For macro, fish life, colors and visibility - the best in the Visayas. All dive sites are within 10 minutes from...

Finally have internet so thought we'd share some info on our February 26th 11 Nite Liveaboard on Calico Jack, Sorong Itinerary. We were supposed to visit the southern part of Raja, but due to bad weather, we spent our time enjoying the beautiful and untouched islands of the North, including the...

Hi - frequent Cozumel and was fine, but also had a bad experience at a pinnacle around St Kitts / Saba so a bit worried about currents at Raja (thinking of Calico Jack in February a Sorong/Soring trip)I now have better fins and a lot more dives since so confident enough to sit out a dive if...

Hi all - considering a Liveaboard but open to other options as well ....don't know much about the area but definitely a lot of info available, so hoping for helps with narrowing it down. We have flexibility on the dates between Feb and April.... What we are looking for... Lots of Life and...

Planning to spend the month of November in a Campervan, exploring the West Coast, then staying 6 weeks in a suburb south of Perth. We would love to be able to go diving as much as possible, but unfortunately, boat dives at approx $200/day may limit us a bit, so thought we'd post to get some...

hi - on a dive trip in the Philippines and Australia but unfortunately, both my tank straps broke on the BC. The plastic plates holding the straps to the BC ripped ( cracked) so no way to use it. The BC is only about 4 years old with about 150 dives....I love it because I am petite and it firs...

Hi all.... Thinking of doing the Moalboal to Sipalay Safari but question if it's worth going to Sipalay. Seems like a long ways to get a couple of dives in unless you plan to stay in Sipalay. We already plan to do extra dives in Malapascua and Moalboal....is it worth staying in Sipalay...

Hi - reaching a point of over-researching, almost as much as I will spend diving on my next trip, so turning to you for help... It's time for us to buy our first regs...warm water only but plan to travel a lot. Prob will do not more than 50 dives a year but want a reliable, low maintenance (or...

Hi - we were hoping to stay a month in Moalboal in mid-January to mid Feb and renting a house but having a hard time finding a house to rent. Our goal is to rent a house so we can get a good feel of an area, lifestyle, to see if we would like living there. Planning to do boat dives half the...

Hi all - we will have an opportunity to travel for 3 - 6 months next year and would love your opinions on where (warm weather!) we should consider. We would like to stay in one location to get to know the culture / people so ideally, a place where there is also other things to do in addition...

Hi all - several older posts out there about small feet and fins, but my feet are seriously tiny...kids size 2! I'm also 5ft tall with heels but unfortunately, doubt if this can handle currents well.... I've been ok with my snorkeling fins the past few years but got into bad currents during...

Hi all - considering our first liveaboard and wanted to get some advice on what it's like / what we should consider when booking a trip....initially thinking of Bahamas / Caribbean (easy flight from the US and calm waters / interesting vista....) this Nov/Dec/Jan timeframe..... Some initial...

Hi all - visiting manila in January and need advice on best places we can drive/fly/dive for a couple of days/nites. Original plan was to travel all over with my dad, but he is going thru radiation/chemo and can't travel, so hubby and I were thinking of taking about 2 - 3 short trips without...

Hi guys - husband and I are planning to retire in the Philippines (I was born in Manila but grew up in the US). We are beginning our research but would love any advice on places to check out initially (plan is to live at different places for 6 months at a time before settling down)....which...

Hi all - a lot of very helpful info on SMBs here, but getting back to the basics....should I get an SMB or would a Safety Sausage be good enough? We usually dive with a dive op and going on our first trip to cozumel. Intended to just purchase the Akona Sausage (looking for something I can...