For beginning, newly certified divers, planning your first dive vacation is beyond exciting. You went through a lot to learn diving theory and all the…
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Category: Dive Travel
Scuba Diving with Maui Pacific Divers
Scuba Diving on Maui – Maui Pacific Divers I’m lucky to be able to travel and dive quite a lot. It is part of…
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Popular Cozumel Dive Sites
Cozumel is a very popular diving destination. Pretty much everybody already knows this, but Cozumel located off the eastern coast of Mexico. It is home…
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Diving in St. Croix’s Best Dive Sites
St. Croix Scuba Diving Like pretty much every scuba diver, I’ve always been drawn to the Caribbean’s gin-clear waters and spectacular marine life. St. Croix…
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Hawaii Reopens for Dive Travel
After two frustrating years enduring questionable “science” and outright hostility, I am thrilled to learn that Hawaii will once again be open to divers. I guess it has been for a while, if required testing and mask mandates don’t bother you. However, beginning on 3/26, that’s over.
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Diving at Riding Rock Resort – 25 Years Later
When I was young, I did a fair bit of traveling to dive destinations. I had opportunities to scuba dive in as far away destinations…
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Roatan Diving – Experience the Remote East End
Roatan Diving: A Week at The Reef House Resort Roatan diving is renown world-wide for it’s year-round great conditions, unspoiled reefs and diversity of marine…
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Why Dive Sidemount?
Why dive sidemount scuba when there’s nothing wrong with back mount? The average recreational diver probably doesn’t give much thought to sidemount scuba. Many divers…
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Traveling Light With Scuba Gear
How to travel with your diving equipment. Take everything you need without hassle and excess baggage fees. Traveling light with scuba gear is an art.…
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Seven Dive Locations You Must Visit
Seven Dive Locations You Must Visit The image of the ocean-side vacation is one we all keep catalogued away—a still-frame we return to in imagination…
View More Seven Dive Locations You Must VisitPacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber Fund
Monterey Divers: Please help keep the Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber in business I dive in and around Monterey fairly frequently. I have for decades and I…
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Mounting a GoPro Camera to Scuba Gear
Mounting a GoPro to Scuba Gear recently got my hands on a GoPro Hero video camera. I honestly never gave GoPro much thought since I…
View More Mounting a GoPro Camera to Scuba GearKona SCUBA Diving Trip 2011
I finally found 5 minutes to upload 30 seconds of video from last month’s Kona dive trip. I’ll eventually find time to put up something…
View More Kona SCUBA Diving Trip 2011Kona SCUBA Diving Video
The first time I planned a dive trip to Hawaii, I had divers saying things like, “Well, the diving’s not that great in Hawaii,” or…
View More Kona SCUBA Diving VideoUnderwater Pumpkin Carving – SCUBA Diving Patton Beach, Lake Tahoe
This is Sierra Diving Center’s 2011 pumpkin carving dive in Lake Tahoe, CA. The dive took place as October’s fun dive. It is something on an…
View More Underwater Pumpkin Carving – SCUBA Diving Patton Beach, Lake TahoeSCUBA Divers Left Behind in Florida
http://news.yahoo.com/scuba-divers-left-behind-florida-172315719.html Scuba divers left behind in Florida It seems like every other year or so, we read this headline about SCUBA divers somewhere in the…
View More SCUBA Divers Left Behind in FloridaJack’s Diving Locker
Not long ago, I made a post about dive industry people not responding to customer inquiries. Specifically, I named SubGear and Jack’s diving Locker because…
View More Jack’s Diving LockerEradicating Invasive Lionfish Destroying Caribbean Reefs
Of all the environmental tragedies that I can be upset about, one stands out as unique and potentially more devastating than many that are much…
View More Eradicating Invasive Lionfish Destroying Caribbean ReefsMonterey SCUBA Diving: Sierra Diving Center Fun Dive
I’ve been meaning to comment on the fun dives in Monterey last weekend ever since I’ve been back. The short version is it was great.…
View More Monterey SCUBA Diving: Sierra Diving Center Fun DiveEdmund Fitzgerald: Most Famous of Great Lakes Shipwrecks
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald-36/ I remember hearing the Gordon Lightfoot song when I was about ten or eleven years old. It’s kind of burned into my memory so…
View More Edmund Fitzgerald: Most Famous of Great Lakes ShipwrecksAltitude Specialty Diver Course: Lake Tahoe
Now that Summer’s finally here, I’ve been doing a lot of teaching, which I love. Even better, I am generally able to adjust my schedule…
View More Altitude Specialty Diver Course: Lake TahoeSierra Diving Center – Monterey, CA Fun Dive: July 30
On July 30th (2011), I’ll be leading the Sierra Diving Center Fun Dive. Everyone’s welcome. We’ll meet at the Breakwater at 7am. I’ll post more…
View More Sierra Diving Center – Monterey, CA Fun Dive: July 30Diving with Dolphins (in Case Diving with Pilot Whales isn’t Exciting Enough)
Dolphins! The Pilot Whale experience was truly rare, but if ever there is a place divers have a good shot at diving with dolphins, Kona…
View More Diving with Dolphins (in Case Diving with Pilot Whales isn’t Exciting Enough)Pilot Whales: Kona Diving at it’s Best!
I’ve been spouting off for the last few months about December’s planned dive trip to Kona. This is just one of the great things about…
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