Originally posted by TJN22i dove near there also.
Australia was the most diverse diving I have ever done. My wife and I did a 5 day live aboard that took us to 15 different sites on the GBR and the Corral sea. We saw turtles, sharks, huge cod....more stuff than I can name. We liked it so much it is the only time we bought the "dive video". That being said it was expensive & travel time was a killer (I l ...[text shortened]... ving and is so easy it's not funny. If you have never done a drift dive I highly recommend it.
i did the shark dive in the bahama's and bought the video.
Originally posted by RavelloWe did a night dive on the Great Barrier Reef, and we were swimming about with our wee torches, when one of the divers picked up a shark, which proceeded to swim straight towards us, and passed about 2 metres below my feet. Is was great. There were shed loads of sharks there.
Man,you were swimming with sharks!!
weren't you scared??
When we were snorkelling in the Simillan Islands (paradise) I was in water up to about my waste on my way back to the beach when I saw an 6-10 foot shark zooming about in the shallows.
They're mostly harmless. Mostly.
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Letsee, I've dove:
1. Great Barrier Reef
2. Maui, Oahu
3. Belize
4. Bahamas
5. California
6. Florida and Keys
7. Bonaire
I loved living in southern california. Beach dives whenever you want. Logged about 100 night dives before I moved from Cali. to Florida... Miss the beach diving though -- (go whenever you want, wherever)
Bonaire is my favorite of all. If you like shore-diving. THAT IS THE PLACE TO GO. Rent yourself a little pickup and dive all over the freaking island. Nothing like it. Just park your truck, put your gear on, and walk <50ft. before you are in the water. And with depths of >160ft within a hundred yards from shore, how can you beat that?
I just went to Bonaire for a research trip a little over a month ago. Logged about 25 hours of Solo-Dives. Diving alone is my favorite...
--tmetzler
We did a shark dive in Australia where they used a chumsicle (frozen fish heads & carcasses attached to a chain) to attract and feed the sharks. There were over a hundred gray whaler and reef sharks all around us, not one of them showed any aggression towards the divers.
Later on during the same dive we saw a 10ft hammerhead, it swam within 12-14ft of my wife and I as well as 4 other divers. It didn't appear to be afraid of us at all😉
Originally posted by RussThose photos were quite enetertaining a looked like good fun.
Well, the truth is, when the water was clear, and there was no one to buddy with....
I did break the unbreakable rule of diving a number of times. Not big or clever.
Luckily just turning up at the beach was normally enough to find someone to dive with.
Last time I put in some serious dives was in the Maldives on my honey moon. 14 days, 2 dives a day ...[text shortened]... post to these forums. As you can see, I am a low tech diver - t-shirts and socks for me.