If your travels find you with a stopover in LA or LA is your final destination, The Aquarium of The Pacific is a must see on anyone’s itinerary. This is one of the leading aquariums in the world with beautiful exhibits featuring California, Baja California, The Arctic, South Pacific and many more with ample opportunities […]
{Guest blog post by Bottom Times} So, your new adventure has begun! You chose to invest time and money into a great sport and successfully completed your Open Water Scuba Diver certification! Congratulations…but now, what is the next logical step, or more to the point, the next logical place to invest your hard earned money? […]
Back in June, we jetted off to Europe for a quick vacation. As we sat at the airport in Brussels, Belgium, with standby tickets set up to go to Lisbon, Portugal, we looked at the dreary weather that was blanketing much of that country and with a swift decision, we changed our plans to a […]
Here we were, getting ready for our dive trip to Puerto Rico. We couldn’t have been more excited. This was going to be the 2nd time I would be using our Sea Life DC1400 Duo and the 1st time we would ever be diving in the Caribbean Sea. It was kind of a big deal to […]
Our second day of diving was what many consider to be the best in Puerto Rico and left us wishing we had a few more days to dive here. For day two we took off from a beach called Playa Santa in the city of Guanica, Puerto Rico with Island Scuba. Owned and operated by […]
What a pleasant surprise it has been to dive in Puerto Rico. In planning our trip to Puerto Rico we were, of course, excited for a dive trip but, as with any destination we had our concerns about how much we would really enjoy the diving. To our delight we found the four dive sites […]
A great start to our Puerto Rico adventure. With so many of our trips taking 18+ hours in a plane flying to Southeast Asia, it’s hard to believe that only two hours from Miami, Florida, you find yourself in a tropical paradise with lush rain forests, and from what we’ve been told, some of the […]
I laid in darkness floating just below the surface of the water, as the cool water of the sub-tropical Pacific Ocean compressed my dry suit around my body. I did what I could to slow my heart rate and control my breathing, but it was no use. The excitement of my location and the chill […]
Located just a few meters off the security jetty, this is the closest of all the dive sites to where the boats are docked during your surface intervals. We were all tempted to gear up on shore and start our dive from the beach or the jetty however, it seems that all dives at Sipadan […]
West Ridge is one Sipadan dive site that is seldom considered because most people have only one or two days to dive Sipadan and the main draw for the island is to see large schooling pelagics at the other dive sites. Another reason that West Ridge is frequently overlooked is that, because of its location […]
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