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DIVE Magazine Scuba Diving Luxury Travel Magazine Scuba diver fined for pulling whale shark tail in Thailand By Mark 'Crowley' Russell Ascuba diver has been fined by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for touching a whale shark, according to local...

My buddy and I are looking at booking this liveaboard in 2024. This boat is of particular interest in that it does offer several 14 day/13 night trips and, given the distance from the west coast of Canada, we want to maximize our diving. Any thoughts or reviews? I did do a search and could...

Hopefully others will jump on this price reduction of $800.00 off of the list price of $2695.00....now $1895.00. It is on multiple dates but the June 10th sailing still has 15 open spots and we need one more (currently 3 divers only) as four is the minimum. See you on board! Could be a very...

I am part of a conference that runs from March 1 to March 8, 2020 where we are staying at Pardisus Los Cabos. There will be approximately 8 to 12 conference participants who will be interested in a two tank dive. Their experience will range from Divemaster to beginner so the dives will have...

My dive op is taking January 1st off (probably to nurse a hang-over) so that leaves my wife and I to celebrate New Year's Eve with drinking, dancing (for older people) and overall partying. Any suggestions from locals/regulars as to good places to go where the party will be somewhat boisterous...

I was hoping for suggestions from veteran Roatan divers for a planned trip in January 2015. Perhaps the best way to start is to note that we are regular visitors to Cozumel and have found that we don't enjoy all-inclusives and prefer a good hotel with facilities for my non diving spouse...

I was hoping not to use the in house dive operator (Dressel) and be subject to single tank dives of 45 minutes or less. Are there nearby dive ops who pick up and/or are reasonably close who allow you to max out your dive based on your computer/air. I was wanting a two tank dive this Wednesday...

Seen...near the surface at San Juan today. Approximately 1/2 in size and somewhat translucent. No doubt someone will know what it is?

My non-diving wife and I will be returning to Maui in mid May. It has been thirty years since we were there last and I wasn't certified so diving wouldn't have been on my radar. Other than knowing that we intend to go to Maui and will stay just for one week, we are completely lost as to what...

While we wish we could come to Cozumel as frequently as some fellow ScubaBoarders, distance and other travel destinations dictate a repeat timeline of every two years or so. On our last trip in January 2010 we noticed the El Cantil condos while walking to town from The Hotel Cozumel and Resort...

For those who might be interested in watching the Grey Cup (Canada's football equivilent to the Superbowl) I have emailed Kelley's Sports Bar and they think they will have it on. Likely, were enough people to email them with a request to have it on, they would make a point of it. Gene's email...

"The Red Sea is a corridor of marvels - the happiest hours of my diving experience have been spent there"…. Jacques Cousteau. With this quote in mind, so began my first Red Sea visit to see how much this would ring true for me. The trip had been booked through Oonasdivers, a U.K. based dive...

With one remaining week of 2009 vacation time to either use or lose, my non-diving wife and I headed back to Cozumel so that she could kick back around the pool and I could kick in the ocean. Through Air Canada Vacations, we booked a European plan package at the Hotel Cozumel and Resort and...

I plan on doing a Red Sea liveaboard as a solo diver in late September next year. Due to my window of travel I am limited to a departure date of September 25th or 26th and, as I read through available trips, it would appear that the only itinerary that fits is the northern wrecks and reefs. I...

I have no doubt that this has been asked and answered before and I apologize in advance. My daughter (advanced certification) is looking for a good dive operator in Destin, Florida to do some local dives. Any suggestions from fellow Scubaboarders? Thanks in advance

Headed out for a Panama canal cruise on Princess and have booked a couple of dives in Puerto Vallarta. Does anyone know which dive operator is the contractor for Princess? Thanks Ross

I must apologize if this has been asked and answered before but I can’t find any recent threads…. My daughter will be heading to Cairns in July and will have only two to three days to do some diving and I was wondering whether anyone has comments (good or bad) about the following dive ops...

Caye Caulker, March 2008…it’s not spoiled yet. Tucked inside the barrier reef about halfway between Belize City and Ambergris Caye is an island still tenuously clinging to the Caribbean of old and offering a laidback lifestyle and rustic atmosphere. If you used the term “barefoot elegance”...

“Okay, so what have I got myself into?” was the thought bouncing around my head as I counted down the weeks before I would board the Nekton Pilot for the March 8th sailing. The recent “disaster at sea” post that started with a good, bad and ugly scathing report and then spiralled out of control...

If it is on TV is must be true....right? Last night's episode of Prison Break showed five prisoners grabbing Spare Air cylinders (with two of them sharing one no less) and jumping in the ocean to swim underwater out to a marker buoy far offshore. Hard to tell a time line but it seemed like...