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[Sharkey]

I have not posted for a bit. My old laptop died, and I finally got around to replacing it.

We had a great time on Isla Mujeres scuba diving and swimming with the whale sharks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark

I can now cross that one off my list. It was a absolutely amazing experience.

Any other SCUBA divers on the board? Where have been and whats on your wish list.

Here is a link to all the photos
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v134/Sharkey71/Isla2011/?albumview=slideshow

[bscrive]

Great pics and an awesome experience.  Scuba diving is something my wife and I always say we are going to do but we never find the time to get our certification.  We go down to the Caribbean every year and one of these times we are going to do it.  It is definitely on my bucket list.

[donaldcc]

 

Sounds like a great trip.  My best dive trip ever was a week at the Southern Cross Club on Little Cayman Island.  Great service and bungalow a few steps from the water http://www.southerncrossclub.com/  

Famous "wall dives" including Bloody Bay ranked as one of the top in the world.  Wall drops off from 30-40' down to about 3000'.  Had great weather, warm and clear water with great visibility and lots of good dives.  Every fish imaginable including big hammerhead cruising the reef.  Did a few spectacular night dives.  Only about 150 people on the island when we were there.  10 mi long and about 1 mi wide.  

Hope I can go back some day.  No Valkyries though.

[Scott in Ok]

I'm a recently certified diver. We dove on Aruba last fall and were headed to Cozumel in September, but a friends auto accident forced us to cancel.  New plan is to dive in Costa Rica in December....

I have a few pics around here somewhere....

-Scott

[razor]

I did a live aboard from Roatan, British Honduras a number of years ago. Best vacation I have ever taken. Spent a week aboard the Agressor, making 5 dives a day.  Believe it or not it was very relaxing.  Nothing like a land based dive shop.  Their moto was eat, sleep & dive.  Kinda expensive, but not really when you consider the number of dives we got to make.  i'll have to dig up some pics too.

[bassman]

Great pix of the whale sharks.  How about Stuart Cove's shark feeding in the Bahama's....Stingray City in the Caymans (easy shallow dive but usually crowded unless you get there ahead of the pack).....most the Caymans and especially Cayman Brac.....Belize.....Roatan....Cozumel....just be careful diving anywhere in Mexico - they tend to be sloppy doing their headcounts after dives.....Live aboards - consider almost anything in the Agressor Fleet or perhaps check out the little known Nekton Pilot

http://www.nektoncruises.com/ScubaCruise/Ships/NektonPilot/tabid/74/Default.aspx

Long ago and far away I use to teach SCUBA and always enjoyed watching students reactions/responses on the shark feeds..... 

Keep the pix coming...enjoyed them

[Russell Rice]

I lived in Hawaii for 4 years and hung out at sharks cove and 3 tables a lot. The night dives were always great because of the ocean night life. I was at sharks cove with my now ex wife and a sea turtle came close enough to us that we could touch it. What a great day that was. We did not touch the turtle because I was taught not to touch ocean life and I always dive without gloves so as to not be tempted to touch anything.

[xman]

I try to dive whenever we take a vacations to good dive locations. I loved the wall dives in Grand Cayman some years ago. Little Caymen didn't have much on the island then. Some other places I been, Bermuda, Barbados, Hawaii.

A few years ago we were staying at beaches in Turks and Caicos which has resort diveing. I am not much of a fan of resort diving, a bunch of new divers. I had planed on diveing with one of the dive shops on the island, but I talked to the resort dive shop.  They insisted I had to do a pool dive to demonstrate my diveing skills. Since I am long time certified diver and didn't care for the resort diving, I said I'll just go dive where I had planed. They said do the pool dive and then decide. I did, all the normal stuff clear the mask, put the tank on and off underwater, I passed. Next day I'm signed up for a morning 2 tank dive. We met 7 30, gear up, the brand new 45' rear entry dive boat is underway at 8. We were there in October, off season so the resort was at 15%. The drive boat had 6 divers and 6 in help. Each 2 divers dove with a pro diver. After the first dive they had fruit and drinks. The boat would travel for a hour to get to the dive site. We returned by 12. Well needless to say I was signed up for the the 2 tank every day. Best of all it was all free.

Tom

Tom

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

Awesome pics.

A friends Dad who dove for bodies for the police taught his daughter and I to dive when we were barely teenagers. He was teaching a diving class at a local collage and let us sit in on it. I bought a steel scuba tank and regulator with my grass mowing money shortly afterwards. Tank was so heavy I could nearly walk on the bottom without a weight-belt in the local strip pits. But what a ball it was. I sold the tank before my 16'th birthday because of the difficulty of getting it filled without being old enough to be certified and the difficulty of going anywhere with it without a drivers license.

Have snorkeled rarely since then and never got to use scuba again but I have lots of good memories from it.