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Hello all: My Aqualung roller bag got severely damaged on my last trip. I’m looking for a new bag for checked gear. I have purchased all 3 of these bags: 90L Osprey Transporter 120L Osprey Transporter 100L Osprey Sojurn Shuttle The 120 seems very very tall, but it will fit all my gear plus...

Hi all: We are trying to plan a dive-focused trip to Curacao. We love the Reef Divers/Clearly Cayman experience: dive shop with boat diving on site, good food onsite, clean comfortable rooms, nice scenery, not terribly noisy (most of the time). Looking at the options on Curacao, it is not...

We have two dive trips planned over the next year- 2 weeks in Bonaire and 2 weeks in the Caymans. We are considering purchasing DAN travel insurance. I’m trying to decide on annual versus per trip. One question I have is about the limits, the maximum limit for trip cancellation on an annual...

Hello all: I switched to an FFM several years ago. We haven’t done any diving since 2020, but are planning trips this fall. While looking at potential dive shops, I saw some that prohibited the use of FFM. When I inquired about why- I was told there had been too many deaths due to asphyxia...

I am booking flights to/from Little Cayman and have a question on the return. There is a 2:10PM flight from Little Cayman that arrives in Grand Cayman at 2:45PM. Our departing flight from Grand Cayman is at 4:31PM. I've read that this can be tight for Cayman Airways. Thoughts?

I read a post in a Facebook group about a diver fatality at Old Garden Beach, MA, this past Sunday. The Facebook post did give details on the diver’s identity, but I don’t want to post here yet since I couldn’t find a news source with that information. The post did not have any information on...

We are planning a weeklong trip in early March. This will be our third trip to Grand Cayman and our third dive trip. We have just under 20 dives each, including our certification dives, but I still feel very much like a beginner and tend to be anxious about my safety. I've considered whether I...

Hi all: My husband and I are recently certified. We did our OW in the Carribean in the spring and just completed our AOW, again in the Caribbean. We each have about 18 dives now, including our training dives. After our OW, I felt that there were gaps in our training- and that we were not as...

Hi all- I'm relatively new to planning diving trips and this is the first time I am considering purchasing insurance. We have a trip to Grand Cayman planned for the first week of November. My main interest is in finding an insurance policy that will cover cancellation if we don't go either...

Hello all: After a couple of years of lurking and asking questions my husband and I completed our OW certifications in Grand Cayman at the beginning of this month. Including the certification dives, he did 6 dives and I did 9 (he came down with a virus after the 3rd day of diving). We had a...

My husband and I will be getting our OW certification this winter. We live across the street from a lake and have beach, dock and boat access to it. We are discussing whether or not it would be a good location for practicing in the summer between drive trips. The closet dive shop to us is...

With the dive computer market changing significantly in 2016, my husband and I are trying to figure out what dive computer to buy right now for a trip in February. We had decided on the Scubapro Luna, but are feeling a bit hesitant because it is expensive and seems like it is older technology...

Hi- My husband and I are new divers shopping for our 1st regulators. The dive shop recommends the xtx40 as a solid performer and emphasized the swivel 1st stage as a nice benefit of it over others in its price range. We like lighter/smaller for the second stage in general, and I've been...

Hello all: My husband and I just finished our pool work for our PADI OW certification. We are planning a trip to Florida in early March to do the open water referrals and then a little more diving before coming home to New Hampshire. We are talking to a private instructor in Ft. Lauderdale...

Hello: In March, my husband and I will be visiting St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Barbados and St. Martin (in that order). We are trying to do our certification beforehand, but we might end up doing our Open Water dives while on the cruise. Either way we will be very new divers. Which ports/dive show...

My husband and I are traveling to Florida in March. We will be spending several days near Venice before embarking on a cruise. We would love to do our OW certification dives near Venice. Does anyone have recommendations for good, safe, through dive instruction in that area? We are doing our...

My husband and I would like to take an OW certification class in April. Our regular schedules are busy and make it difficult to commit to a class near home (since the nearest is a couple of hours away). Instead, we would like to take a few days off from work to immerse ourselves in learning to...

Hello all: My husband and I will be getting our Open Water Certification locally (in NH) this summer. We are planning a cruise to the Western Caribbean next February, and would like to dive in two of the ports: Cozumel and Grand Cayman. Since these would be our first dives after...

Hello all: My husband and I are planning to try diving while in the Caribbean. Two spots that would work well for out schedule would be St. Lucia (at Ti Kaye with Island Divers) or in Grenada (not sure which vendor to go with). I've read a lot about the current in Grenada, and am concerned...

Hello all: My husband and I are going on a cruise in February. We had planned to do the Discover Scuba course, but several people have recommended getting certified instead. I'm looking for a shop to do the coursework and pool work, and then two shops in the Caribbean for the open water...