Thread: Scuba Diving

Originally Posted by zib

Last time I was in Cozumel, I didn't have time to dive. I heard it's some of the best.

clearest water anywhere. 200' visibility most days.

Originally Posted by zib

Last time I was in Cozumel, I didn't have time to dive. I heard it's some of the best.

Kick yourself and get a plane ticket back to Cozumel. Of all the places I dove Cozumel was hands down the best! (Better than Hawaii even). I am SSI certified. I use Nitrox, it's great. I hope to make it to the great barrier reef before I'm out of college Diving is one of the best things I ever picked up.

I'll tell ya what, I haven't been diving in a while, but when I do, I'm gonna get Nitrox Cert and I go back to Cozumel. Diving aside, Cozumel is like party city...Ever been to Carlos and Charlies....?

Originally Posted by zib

I'll tell ya what, I haven't been diving in a while, but when I do, I'm gonna get Nitrox Cert and I go back to Cozumel. Diving aside, Cozumel is like party city...Ever been to Carlos and Charlies....?

WHY YES I HAVE! It was way fun, dive by day and party by night! And Nitrox is definitely a good idea, you get a good bit more time under the water and the best part is that you don't feel exhausted at the end of the dive. I would recommend it to anyone.

PADI certified since 1994, but only 14 dives since. I stopped when my son was born in 1997. I'd like to go diving again, with my son, in a couple of years.

Matt

Originally Posted by mbf4755

PADI certified since 1994, but only 14 dives since. I stopped when my son was born in 1997. I'd like to go diving again, with my son, in a couple of years.

Do it. That's exactly what my dad did. He quit diving once he got married, then a couple years ago he got me certified and we go on a dive trip at least once a year. It's a fantastic thing.

Brent

Did the initiation dive last year in Honduras... Roatan and Utila. Was awesome! Wanted to get certified but didn't have the energy... it was still a blast doing it and I'm considering doing the open water padi cert!

Been certified for years. I go to Aruba every year for two weeks, but the industry there has become so terrible that unless we spend up and get private boat and Dive Master, we don't even go anymore. I've been left alone (with my wife) to swim back a long distance to the boat against the current on a drift dive when I couldn't equalize, she was pushed out of the way because an UW photographer wanted to take a photo of the opctopus she was looking at. We watched divers standing on coral while a divemaster did nothing.
We decided that it flat wasn't worth it to us any more. We have had terrible experiences every time we've gone the commercial route in the past 5 years. We'll probably go private again this year (we go in December), and wil probably have a great time.

PADI certified in 1994. I was working on divemaster in '97 when life got in the way of my hobbies. I got a wife and house. I haven't been in the water in ten years. I have a mess of gear that was top of the line in the 90's. Every spring I think about getting it out and having it inspected and having the tanks certified but never do. I should sell it to fund other hobbies but keep it in hopes of one day diving again.

Don

My new project is talking Mrs Py into going diving in Bali this winter. It will be the rainy season, but will that make a difference?