Diving near Vietnam

[cnherrick]

My Vietnamese friends say the best time to visit Vietnam is Fall. Fares are cheaper. How is the diving on Con Dao then?

 

[Maverick17]

This week there were fares sub-$650 to SGN, which is the best non-error fare I've seen. Those were for fall. It rains a few days a week in fall, but the Con Dao sites say that it usually only rains at night. Haven't been, but hoping to go soon myself.

I don't think there's really any diving at Vung Tao or other places on the coast. I was in Mui Ne and didn't find anything about diving there. Once you're up to Nha Trang there's diving, but down south it's Con Dao and Phu Quoc from what I understand.

 

[StephanieG]

Nha Trang is the beach capital of Vietnam and also the main diving destination. While we were in Dalat we met a guy who had recently been diving with Nha Trang Fun Divers and informed us that even if the conditions themselves were pretty bad, they were the best diving shop in town, and definitely worth checking out. We much prefer to go on word of mouth from people we meet than a dodgy trip advisor review, so we headed straight for Nha Trang Fun Divers as soon as we got to town. We were feeling pretty excited to jump back in the ocean, as we hadn’t been diving since completing our rescue diver course, wreck and nitrox specialties back in Koh Tao, Thailand.

 

[cnherrick]

Cool.

Someone let me know if they dive Con Dao? It's where I want to dive and it's close enough by plane from Saigon to make it a dual goal trip.

 

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

We are still here and active on Con Dao.
www.dive-condao.com
50 minute flight from Saigon
An order of magnitude better then Phu Quoc.
April is generally best..

 

[Ande Zaidel]

Nha Trang is the beach capital of Vietnam and also the main diving destination. While we were in Dalat we met a guy who had recently been diving with Nha Trang Fun Divers and informed us that even if the conditions themselves were pretty bad, they were the best diving shop in town, and definitely worth checking out. We much prefer to go on word of mouth from people we meet than a dodgy trip advisor review, so we headed straight for Nha Trang Fun Divers as soon as we got to town. We were feeling pretty excited to jump back in the ocean, as we hadn’t been diving since completing our rescue diver course, wreck and nitrox specialties back in Koh Tao, Thailand.

Nha Trang Fun Divers is still here but on the different address https://goo.gl/maps/5TJFnet9SXo . The new website is:
Freediving, Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in Vietnam,Nha Trang . Operating in Nha Trang only.

 

[kassj0peja]

I really liked diving in Koh Sdach in Cambodia.

Diving in Cambodia and Vietnam