Greetings,
I should be making this report from the comforts of my home, but the weather conditions in the North East are less than favorable, and force us to extend our vacation another 3 days.. (Flights canceled, and the earliest we could confirm a flight back was for Tuesday the 14th)..
The diving in the DR is wonderful.. I would even say it TOTALLY outclassed our trip last April to the Florida Keys (Islamorada) with the exception of diving the Spiegel Grove.
For those that say the diving is not all that great, I can say I experienced quite the opposite. The diving was enjoyable, the staff of the Puntacana Resort & Club, and Scuba Fun (Bayahibe) were top notch.
The visibility averaged 50 - 65 feet.. with the worse day around 40 or so.. the best day was over 80 feet of vis..
Water is 80 degrees (every dive) and the weather ranges from 82 - 86.
Everything can be seen here.. Turtles (Puntacana), Sharks (Catalanita Island aka Shark Point), Stingrays (both Puntacana & Bayahibe) and even a spotted eagle ray (Puntacana).. We dove wrecks in both locations as well, St. George in Bayahibe, and Patricia in Puntacana. The Patricia was a great dive, with a big vessel, a large debris field and barracuda...
Since I am forced to stay an additional 3 days.. I went down to the scuba shack (really is a "shack") and signed up for 3 more dives.. might as well enjoy being stranded...
That is all for now, I will write a more detailed report when I offically return. I know there were a few people that pm'd or sent me e-mails asking for details from my trip.. so I wanted to get this up sooner rather than later.
I should be making this report from the comforts of my home, but the weather conditions in the North East are less than favorable, and force us to extend our vacation another 3 days.. (Flights canceled, and the earliest we could confirm a flight back was for Tuesday the 14th)..
The diving in the DR is wonderful.. I would even say it TOTALLY outclassed our trip last April to the Florida Keys (Islamorada) with the exception of diving the Spiegel Grove.
For those that say the diving is not all that great, I can say I experienced quite the opposite. The diving was enjoyable, the staff of the Puntacana Resort & Club, and Scuba Fun (Bayahibe) were top notch.
The visibility averaged 50 - 65 feet.. with the worse day around 40 or so.. the best day was over 80 feet of vis..
Water is 80 degrees (every dive) and the weather ranges from 82 - 86.
Everything can be seen here.. Turtles (Puntacana), Sharks (Catalanita Island aka Shark Point), Stingrays (both Puntacana & Bayahibe) and even a spotted eagle ray (Puntacana).. We dove wrecks in both locations as well, St. George in Bayahibe, and Patricia in Puntacana. The Patricia was a great dive, with a big vessel, a large debris field and barracuda...
Since I am forced to stay an additional 3 days.. I went down to the scuba shack (really is a "shack") and signed up for 3 more dives.. might as well enjoy being stranded...
That is all for now, I will write a more detailed report when I offically return. I know there were a few people that pm'd or sent me e-mails asking for details from my trip.. so I wanted to get this up sooner rather than later.
