viking
Barracuda
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Post by viking on Oct 25, 2004 8:33:48 GMT -5
Ok so something a little more down beat. My favourite dive site has to be The Zenobia in Cyprus Fantastic wreck great viz you'll want to dive it again and again. Reef's are great but just love a good wreck, but not normally on a Friday night out
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Post by scubadaddy on Oct 25, 2004 9:50:31 GMT -5
my favourite dive site so far was on a small island called ´isla Coiba´ - pacific side of Panama. Something like Galapagos but more corals and also small stuff. Huge amount of fish, all kind of whales and dolphins, lots of sharks - f**king big ones, nudi branches, sea horses everywhere, also on the migration road of orcas and blue whales. Lots of saltie crocs and on one dive i saw i would guess about 10.000 golden rays. But very undeveloped, hard to find somebody who gets you there - maybe in a few years - check it out - its between coco island and malpelo.
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Post by Capt. Monk on Oct 25, 2004 11:10:22 GMT -5
I've heard of the Isla Coiba, wasn't there a live aboard that worked that area at one time?
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Post by LSDeep on Oct 25, 2004 11:34:16 GMT -5
I've heard of the Isla Coiba, wasn't there a live aboard that worked that area at one time? i think it was the coral fleet of vessels and also the coiba explorer that used to take trips there, dont know if they still do.
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Post by divergirl on Nov 7, 2004 11:00:48 GMT -5
have to agree with the Coiba comments. Some of the best diving I've ever done - and now there's a cheap way to get there. Have a look at www.scubacoiba.com. Based in Santa Catalina, they do all-inclusive trips to the island which is about 2 hrs away. Catalina is also a great place to surf or learn to surf...
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san
Puffer
Dive ever - work never!
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Post by san on Nov 8, 2004 10:48:28 GMT -5
Hi to everyone! I'm new here and glad to join this forum As I'm a biologist every diving site for me is a new discover! As I'm from Croatia (Europe) we have here a lot of wrecks but I don't like diving on them because of many divers wrecks are not biologicaly interesting. In other hands diving on walls or some other natural habitat is wonderful! I like even cave diving where you can find some amazing marine life! One of the best diving sites I have ever been is the red sea, but in the south part, down in Marsa Alam!
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Post by Phil Earles on Nov 22, 2004 16:11:44 GMT -5
I love Bonaire - my advice is to get a pick up, load on some cylinders and just drive around. All of the major sites are marked by a yellow stone, so you just pull off the road and jump in.
The boat dives were good dive, but I found the level of dive guiding to be low compared to European standards(dm going in with a camera and disappearing before everyone was even off the boat).
Excellent value for money - but no sharks unfortunately
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Post by scubadaddy on Nov 22, 2004 18:14:36 GMT -5
got another one! i am just coming from a trip to Bali. I have been diving all around the island. The famous US Liberty wreck of Tulamben is amazing. After a few years of living in the caribbean, i was bored of corals, but in Bali, which is one of the richest biodiverstity zones, the corals are really beautifull, lots of macro, and always the chance for big stuff. I was impressed, easy and relaxed diving, sites with huge 4knots currents, with big fish and mola mola. If you ask me, everything and more than a diver can expect. These are dives i even would pay for ! ;D To come back to coiba, the operating liveaboard was coiba explorer, yep, but they couldn´t survive. It´s used now to transport prostitutes. There are only a few people which now the dive sites, if you don´t know them, you are looking at rocks. The guys i was helping out where www.twinoceans.com, but due to the leak of tourism, they are not operating, its for sale unfortunatly. Panama is not shure yet if they allow tourism development on coiba or stay as a marine park and protect it from any hazards.
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Post by scubaflo on Jan 29, 2006 9:01:11 GMT -5
My very favourite dive site has to be The Brother Islands in the Red Sea, especially Big Brother. I know, I know, it´s not new or very original, but in my opinion, they never get boring. What I really like about it is, that you have at least four great dives on Big Brother, that the diving can be quite challanging, but there are always some big beasties around, so in the end it´s worth the struggle with the current. Then you have the Numidia, which is my favourite wreck in the world, and I have met my first silkie there, which makes it special to me...but even without the sharks, the amazing softcorals are always worth a visit, and last time, I even found a frogfish. With a bit of luck and in low season you might even be one of just a few divers in the water, and then, it´s truely magic...
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Post by Argo on Jan 29, 2006 12:01:56 GMT -5
For me its gotta be Coron in the Philippines........... lots of wrecks and very broad diversity of life on all of them......... Not to mention the things its still possible to find on them......
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Post by LSDeep on Jan 29, 2006 13:23:29 GMT -5
hey - its where ever i dive this moment. therer no really bad dives (divers - well thats diff LOL) what was great today will be lame tomorrow after i dive somewhere else.
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Post by teddybeardiver on Mar 26, 2006 17:37:26 GMT -5
favourite dive sites, since I am a bit of a wreckie diver:
Thistlegorm in the Red sea and James Barrie at Scapa Flow
Favourite none wreck dive site:
almost any dive at Bunaken close to Manado in Indonesia
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Post by andy on Jun 30, 2006 7:06:56 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of a dive site called Manta Reef just off Tofo in Mozambique. One of the best places I have ever dived for seeing big stuff.
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