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On our recent visit to the Grand Cayman Island, we had the pleasure of diving with the dive masters and Instructors of Dive Tech, the Cobalt Coast’s onsite dive shop/charter/training center. Dive Tech is a full service dive shop, complete with mascot Mojo the dog, offering a wide range of classes, from beginning to tech [...]

Dive charter and live-aboard operators consistently tell us that it is much easier to become a diver-lost-at-sea statistic that most divers realize. Although they do not let on, boat captains and crew live with this realistic fear on most trips that are outside of calm, current free coves. On a recent dive trip to Neah [...]

Like Port Hardy (see article) Quadra Island diving is one of those dives you must dive before you die. The best image of diving here is to image a weightless flight along the cliffs of an alien planet completely covered with life in all the colors of the best tropical dives. A couple of our [...]

Deep Sea Charters (that would be the Emerald Sea) is a dive charter which departs out of Cap Sante Boat Haven, in Anacortes, WA. When we saw the Deep Sea Charters booth at the Tacoma Dive Show they promised that customers would be “spoiled rotten” with hot lunch and great care.  Who doesn’t like to [...]

(updateded 14 May 2009) You cannot oversell the diving in Browning Pass (BC, Canada). Divers who have been there, including Women’s Diving Hall of Famer Jill Heinerth, call this area the best diving in the world at any temperature. It has been regularly listed in Scuba Diving magazine as the best diving in North America. [...]

While not a perfect dive charter, the divers we interviewed agreed that Porthole Charters is the best charter on the main Puget Sound. The custom built, 41 ft Mark V, Porthole’s newer of their two boats, holds 14 divers and is an aluminum gem. Since most of the time on the a dive boat is [...]