Belize Trip Report 05-09
Belize Trip Report 5/2-5/9/09 I just returned from Ambrigis Caye, Belize. It was my first dive trip to the island, and we had a good time. It was a SingleDivers.com trip http://www.singledivers.com/surfaceinterval/index.php?showtopic=16972 . We stayed at the Tides on the north end of San Pedro. Diving was with the on site dive op, Patojos. http://www.ambergriscaye.com/tides/dive.html. The cost of the trip was actually $80 less than the price quoted on the website and included lunch as well. Addi...
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Padi Wreck Diving Specialty
Padi Wreck Diving Specialty March 19-23rd Boca Chica, Dominican Republic Caribbean Divers Last weekend I flew down to Boca Chica, DR to do my wreck diving specialty with Caribbean Divers in Boca Chica. I did 5 dives over 3 days. The class was 4 of them, the other was a reef dive. For the class, we dove the Cutuan, which was the Mohican out of Port Huron prior to moving to the Domican Republic. It is a tug boat that was sunk in about a 5-10 minute boat ride from the Dive shop in about 70 feet of ...
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SW Florida Thanksgiving Dive
I was visiting my parents for Thanksgiving, so I scheduled a Dive with Jeff at Scuba Marco, on Marco Island, FL. Jeff called me the day before to confirm the dive. His boat is a six pack. We had five divers on the boat. We dove two wrecks. The first was Bagen’s Barge. It is a small barge (8’x10’) sitting in about 35 feet of water. The water was colder than any of us expected (65 degrees) and with my full 3mm+ vest was chilly during the dives. My buddy, Bob, had even less neoprene on. Visbility o...
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Halloween in Cozumel
SingleDivers trip - Halloween in Cozumel. This trip for me started on Thursday October 30th. THe first step was that when I arrived at the Denver airport my flight was cancelled. So they booked me on a direct flight to Cancun. The good new was no layover. The bad news was doing the transfer. I made it down to Playa Del Carmen only to find out that the ferry was now on a 2 hour schedule rather than the normal off season 1 trip an hour. So my hopes of making it to the hotel prior to the dive shop ...
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Roatan Labor Day 2008
I just got back from Roatan, staying at Anthony’s Key. www.anthonyskey.com I was at Roatan previously on a cruise ship and the diving was through Anthony’s Key. They have a large fleet of custom 42’ and 48’ boats. All dives are single tank dives, in that we came back to the resort in between dives. So I was able to tour the facilities between the dives and was very impressed. This is how I envsioned a tropical paradise. Accomodations were either on the hill adjacent to the dining room (52 steps ...
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My 100th Dive
My 100th Dive trip 7/25-7/28 2008 Back in North Carolina, I booked my 96th Dive. SingleDivers.com was having the re-do of the Cozumel/Cenotes/Holbox trip, I was able to find some inexpensive airfare, so I came down for the weekend to do the Cozumel portion. We stayed at CasaDel Mar. I arrived on Friday, checked in at the dive shop (DelMar Aquatics) and did a shore dive that afternoon with two of the women on the trip. The dive was surprisingly good. First we went and blew bubbles at the glass bo...
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NC Wrecks trip 7/3-7/7/08
July 4th NC WreCK TripSingleDivers.com I just returned from the NC Wrecks trip. This trip was through SingleDivers.com. We stayed at the Fisherman’s Inn in Morehead City, North Carolina. We dove with Diver Down. The trip was 4 nights, with 3 days of diving. We flew into Raleigh Durham and rented a van for the drive up to Morehead. Part of the highlights of this journey was to stop at wilbers for Carolina BBQ. The next day we began the diving. DIving in Carolina is different than the other diving...
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Cozy June 2008
Dive Trip Report Cozumel - June 13-16th Flew down on a trip booked through apple vacations. Sun Country Charter out of Dallas-Ft. Worth. My dive buddy, BB & I were on a flight at 10:00 am that got us into Cozumel about 12:30. Headed straight over to Hotel Cozumel. Got checked in, Then went over to the Dive Paradise Dive shop, checked in there and rented a couple of tanks for a checkout dive. Cost is $6 for tank & weights. So we were wet by about 2:00pm. From the pier, you can swim out and they h...
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Bonaire May 2008
Dive Trip Bonaire 2008 May 10-17th www.SingleDivers.Com Accommodations We stayed at the Divi Flamingo. Nice hotel just south of town. It’s easily within walking distance of local restaurants and shopping. We had an Oceanside room with balcony that provided awesome sunsets. Staff was great. Two negatives: intermittent hot water. Never knew when you took a shower whether hot water would be available or not. Second was an air conditioning leak left the floor of our room wet the last couple of days ...
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