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Hello, I've dived both Santa Marta and Recife and I've been in Phuket but didnt dive there. The diving is not fantastic in my opinion in either of the first two. Santa Marta is not particularly Caribbean-like diving at all. And you'll have to be reasonable adventurous for the top...

I posted a little Taganga report on: http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=112083

Hello, We used to live in Cartagena and I recently added a little basic guide to diving in Colombia on wikiscuba: http://www.wikiscuba.com/wiki/index.php/Colombia I would say first place you need to go is San Andres and Providencia. If you need ay specific advice let us know. John &...

Recife is about a 3 hour direct flight by plane from Rio or Sao Paulo by Varig or TAM. You could get there fairly cheaply by using Gol airline www.voegl.com.br but their flights tend to stop a lot on the way. At least at the dive school I used in Recife they used yoke valves. Recife is also...

Have not tried J&J but find that washing-up liquid for plates or liquid hand soap works fine, better than spit

Well, no-one answered but I went anyway so here's a quick report for furture reference. I used Aquaticos (www.aquaticos.com.br). Cost was about US$80 including all the gear for 2 shipwreck dives, the Servemar I and Pirapama...

I will be in Recife, Brazil next week for a couple of days and was wondering if anyone has dived there? I will only be in Recife and won't have time to go anywhere else. Can anyone tell me about temperature, visibility, if there is much fishlife, best sites and best dive outfit? It...

Hi Luft, We live in Cartagena and dive regularly here. We go with La Tortuga dive school as they spend more time diving off Baru which we have found to be better than Islas del Rosario (coral in better condition, more fish). All the other dive schools (there are about 5 or 6) dive only in...

Anyone had any bacterial or fungal infections in their finger nails from diving and any tips on how to get rid of the fungus? Have been using an anti-fungal cream which gradually gets rid of the infection but it comes back as soon as I dive again. Rocio

Just back from our weekend in Taganga. We did 4 dives and enjoyed them all although there were certainly drawbacks. The village of Taganga is a real dump, littered with trash and rubble, but in a beautiful setting, a long bay surrounded by green hills. We made the mistake of actually...

We were there in February and September this year. In September the surface was much calmer and the water a bit warmer than in February. December to March are the choppiest months which can limit excursions to the wall on the south east of the island but with some luck you will still be able...

Hi, I am going to be in Toronto in a couple of weeks. I live in Colombia, South America and gear down here is very expensive so I want to get a wetsuit while I'm in Toronto but it has to be somewhere downtown and easy for me to get to. I guess from searching online Aquarius is handy but...

We were there last week. Copa definitely fly from Panama and I think Taca go from San Jose (we met Costa Ricans who flew there direct). Absolutely nothing bad will happen to you connecting via Bogota airport with Avianca.

Hi everyone. Thanks for all the replies so far. Hopefully I'll just be a 3 week case and not 7 years. Looks like I'll buy a wetsuit.

Hello, I was diving in San Andres last week and on exiting the water after a night dive 4 of the 5 in our group were stung by jelly fish. Unfortunately I got stung worse than everyone else, on my foot and on various parts of my lower leg. I experienced the pain moving up through my body and...

Hi Dr Bill, We live in Cartagena and are planning of diving in Taganga in November so if you can wait we can fill you in afterwards. We have heard Poseidon are the safest option. We have been twice to San Andres, diving both times with Buzos del Caribe. They were the cheapest we could...