Pretty cool experience, the ocean conditions were too windy in Puerto Morelos, so cenotes were the only option.

Hi Everyone

Just joined this sub. My husband and I just got back from an 8 day trip in Raja Ampat Indonesia where we did about 8 dives, and got our PADI certifications. Its an absolutely amazing breath taking place. Sharing some marine snaps from there :)

Healthy and colorful reefs with lots of schooling fishes and great visibility.

Reefs of the straits of terahn

I keep trying to convince myself that I like diving in MN 🥶🤣

Hey!

I am going to Cyprus in May and will be doing a few dives there! Anyone have any experience with it? I heard the zenobia is epic so I definitely want to do that. I have AOW if that makes a difference.

Curious to hear yalls thoughts on it and how to do it right. I'll only have time for probably 2-3 days of diving.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been thinking about heading to Zanzibar for some diving around the end of October and was curious if anyone here has experience diving there that time of year.

• What are the conditions like? (viz, currents, temps, etc.)
• Any dive sites you'd recommend — or ones to avoid?
• Hoping to spot some big marine life — is that likely in that season?
• Would love tips on which area to stay in, or dive ops you liked.

Appreciate any info or stories. Always stoked to learn

One of my meg dives last summer - recent chatter reminded me! These are all from one day on the water (three dives, about 450 minutes’ bottom time). Much of Florida used to be seafloor - one of the old sea channels runs right through Venice, Florida in the Peace River formation. Megs and other fossils can be found in the river and just off-shore.

How to dive it: Venice is a low vis (expect 5-10’ max on a good day) shallow sandy “muck” dive…you spend most of your time with your face planted a few inches from the bottom looking for teeth. Due to low vis, most diving is solo diving. Aquanutz dive charters does 3-tank dives and lets you dive your tank - which can mean loooooong bottom times on an AL80 in just 20-30’ of water. Book in advance, charters fill up fast; you can shore dive but expect small teeth. The big megs are a little farther off-shore and often best right after a storm has stirred up the bottom.

Question in title. I am going to Malta (Gozo) on a dive trip soon and want to get nitrox certified while there. I spoke to a couple of dive shops and one mentioned their nitrox course is not through padi but I could still take it and be fine. What do you think all, does it matter?

Edit: I don't currently have a local dive shop as i am in a landlocked state (I moved). But I did do the nitrox dive/measuring tanks when i did AOW so I really would only need to do eLearning with PADI I think.

Also, if anyone has shop recommendations in Gozo i'll take em!

I’m currently a college student and am in an advanced/rescue SCUBA class at my rec center for credit hours. I got my advanced certification last weekend, and next weekend I have the choice to get my rescue divers. We have done a whole bunch in the pool and have practiced everything we will be doing in the open water, is it worth me spending the money to get my actual certification? I don’t think I can afford it right now, if I don’t do it will it limit me a lot in the future?

Hi all, I'm heading out to Tampa for work, and will have a couple days I can commit to diving. I plan on bringing my gear, what's good in the area?

Hi!

We are finishing our OWD with travel as we live in The Netherlands, and we are going to Egypt, any recs on dive schools for the dives? we may add a Peak Performance Buoyancy as well,

I currently dive in deep6 eddy fins and mostly frog kick. I find they are great for slow dives with no current, but my legs are quickly fatigued in current. I’m also planning a whale swim in moorea where I’ll be swimming long distances so I’m looking for fins that might suit both purposes. Thanks!

Hey everyone, I have recently gotten my open water cert and am hoping to go dive when I visit my sister in Hawaii. I was looking around online and saw a lot of wreck diving and 60+ ft deep diving. Is there any good diving on Oahu for someone who can't go deep or to wrecks 😅

Thanks

Sorry for the beeping in the audio… no idea how that happened…

Hi divers! I’m going to Saudi for a month. I was thinking of doing a liveaboard then also staying in Jeddah or Yanbu and diving there. I am looking for recommendations. I want to do the liveaboard the last week in August.

I am looking for recs and good experiences. Dive resorts, smaller towns with dive shops, liveaboard sites etc would be a lot of help. Any tips that can help. Also, I will not have my own equipment.

Thanks so much 🐠

So today I had what to me was an unusual experience and I wanted to see if this is something that occurs often.

I was diving (will say it was in Mexico) with a divemaster and 4 more divers. Boat dive, in the ocean. We didn’t have a buddy system, just follow the divemaster. Unfortunately my rental mask was too small for me and after 50 minutes of unbearable pain and pressure I decided I wanted to surface. I couldn’t catch up to the divemaster at first, then when I did he thought I needed air so offered me his regulator. I motioned to my mask, he thought I needed to clean it, I kept motioning I wanted to go up. At the beginning of the dive he told us that the rule is that we all go down and then go up together. Last week I was diving a cenote and the divemaster told us that if someone needs to go out, we all go out together, leave the diver out and we go back in again.

The divemaster instead gave me his buoy and I surfaced alone. The shore was within sight, albeit far. There were boats around. After a couple of minutes a boat saw me, came to me, asked me who I was with and signalled my captain to come pick me up.

Is this something unusual? I am a relatively new diver, 45 dives.

Hi, I bought Waterproof ultima twist system with biovyn gloves. Gloves are realy comfy and warm even with very thin and cheap inner gloves. Problem is with the high friction material of the gloves making it impossible to deploy a DSMB as the reel isn’t spinning in between the fingers at all. Is there anything I can do without the need of buying a different equpement so I can deploy the reel?

paid $25 on Amazon for it because the trailer looked great and woody harrelson is in there, but the movie felt like an extended version of the trailer - i think it could have been told much better with character development - James Cameron would have done it justice.

what did everyone else think of it?

In Jamaica now and thinking about upgrading from PADi scuba diver certification to open water. Need to complete two fun dives and I don’t recall the options. I know one is a night dive but not sure on the other options.

I’m new to posting on Reddit so please forgive me and remove if not allowed. I’ve been diving for about 2 years consistently (at least once a week). A very silly issue that I’m having are my nails. They’re so brittle and broken from the water. I enjoy having my nails done. I’ve tried gel polish and that doesn’t seem to make a difference if not makes them way worse. Has anyone got a suggestion or recommendation on what you do? TIA. 😊

Hi all, I'll be heading to Ko Tao next week for a few days. I already have my PADI Advanced Open water qualification, which I completed last September, but am not massively experienced, I did it straight away following the OW course so I've only really had about 13 dives.

I was wondering what company/dive sites people would recommend?

Thanks in advance!!