Thanks for your input....my local diveshop/did class/pool dives with/ here in Wisconsin in January has posted a trip with 10 openings for a week that I have vacation time set aside for....!!!!! It sounds like a trip that I will not have a chance at again.....it was either Panama or scuba...and it looks like getting really wet is what is going to happen....I will see the blue Caribe up close and personal that week....anyone else have a report or retort to this thread?