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Scuba Divers Question?

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:53 am
by DELETED
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:02 am
by jofus
Hey Jorge,
Try Kiddle Bay, it's just past your favorite, Salt Pond. My Hubby and I stay in a villa just up the hill from there and we haven't bothered with a dive boat since we dove there. Lots of cool stuff to see and swin through on the west bank. You can drive right down to the water, unload your gear and pull your car off the beach so others can access it. It's pretty deserted most of the time.

jofus

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:57 am
by nothintolose
Low Key Watersports rented tanks to my brothers and told them to go somewhere in the East End. They loved it; I will try and track down the name of the beach.

nothintolose

p.s. congrats on your certification!

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:02 am
by flip-flop
I did my intro dive at Haulover on the east end. It is a great spot and you can go down about 30-40 feet just a little bit off shore. Probably not as great as being far out on a boat, but I enjoyed it and was nice to not have the boat thing to deal with.

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:47 am
by AnyTing
I second Flip Flop. We did shore dives from the south side of Haulover. Reefs on the east side of the bay are great, close to shore, and not very deep. You can also park really close to the beach so you don't have to haul your gear far.

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:00 pm
by Maggy
Jorge, I just want to say congratulations on your certification!

I have just started the PADI Open Water course and am reading the theory book at the moment. The pool sessions will start in two weeks and then I will do the dives in STJ.

Hope you find a beach to shore dive from.

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:26 pm
by DELETED
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:50 pm
by flip-flop
Jorge & FlaGeorge together. Is Florida still ok? You guys didn't tear it up too much did you?

scuba dive from beach

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:44 pm
by papabou
jorge,

another easy shore dive that might be interesting would be the left side out of little lameshure around to lameshure. get there early and you can park near one of the picnic table for set up, inflate your bcd and snorkel out about 50 feet to left then start down. i've only snorkeled and free dived out by rocks but as you approach the end to go around to lameshure you'll have plenty of depth and i believe plenty to see. my only large octupus and eagle ray sigthings have been in that area.

i've done some free diving at the indians and have always thought that would be a great dive. too far to swim from rams head and bvi customs might pull you over and ask for your passport. but still bet a great boat dive.

my buddy and i got our padi cards in 1985 but I haven't dived in several yrs and due to some health issues & properly won't again. max depth about 100ft at grand cayman on night dive from shore out from turtle farm. did it to say we did but we preferred to give out of air without thinking about bt, so we normally stayed under 40 feet. Back in the early 90's, our favorite shore dives were the grottos at eden rock and the upper end of the wall out from the turtle farm on gr cayman, especially at night.

to me a good scuba dive is the only thing more refreshing than a return to stj! enjoy!

papabou

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:34 pm
by DELETED
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:08 pm
by nascarfan59
Congrats Jorge!!!

Flip-Flop - I think they were also corrupting Dr. Curley :shock:

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:18 pm
by waterguy
I would go along with haul over north