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      Travel Articles    
    
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    Diving Cayman Brac: One Of Nature's Masterpieces  
Cayman Brac offers divers a choice between great wrecks, wonderful walls, and shallow reefs.  Hundreds of species call the warm, clear waters that surround it, and the rest of the Cayman Islands their home, and the beautiful underwater topography represents one of nature’s greatest masterpieces.

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    Table Rock Lake: Missouri's Ozarks Oasis  
While the Ozarks themselves are a lot like an oasis for nature, Table Rock Lake conceals a true Oasis - a town which was submerged when the US Army Corps of Engineers flooded the valley upstream from the dam in 1958.

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    Bermuda’s Most Mysterious Dive Sites: From Hangover Hole to Smuggler’s Notch  
Beautiful, yet mysterious, Bermuda is not only a place of legend and lore; it is a marvelous paradise that beckons divers from around the world.  Home to a wealth of marine life and offering something for everyone, including countless reef sites and centuries worth of shipwrecks, it is also an ar

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    Diving Missouri's Bennett Spring: Clear Water And Amazing Aquatic Life  
For a few months of the year, Missouri's Bennett Spring offers diving among an incredible population of fish, as well as with some other intriguing creatures.

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    Which type of marine life excites you the most?  
Macro life

  19% (4 votes)
Colorful tropical fish

  48% (10 votes)
Big pelagic fish

  10% (2 votes)
Marine mammals

  24% (5 votes)

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    Which type of gas do you use most?  
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  43% (9 votes)
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  33% (7 votes)
Trimix

  24% (5 votes)

    Total votes: 21  

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    A Week of Wrecks and Reefs in the Florida Keys  
After dive buddy Derek suffered a messy breakup, it was up to me to get him through the dreaded Valentine’s Day weekend.

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    Aruba: A Top Caribbean Pick For Fun and Sun  
A fantastic vacation in Aruba; stayed at the Holiday Inn; went scuba diving several days and got sunburned really bad.  The best Mexican restaurant is across from the Holiday Inn; would fly back just for the food.
Can't wait for my next visit.

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    My Belizian Adventure: A Trip Worth Waiting For  
Almost a year to the date before embarking, I booked a liveaboard trip on the Belize aggressor III. I then spent an entire year daydreaming about the sites we’d be diving! Let me say, this is the longest I’ve ever waited for a trip, and it was worth every second of waiting.

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    Explore The HMAS Adelaide Wreck, But Look Out For The Bends  
If you’re like most divers, you have felt a certain sense of annoyance when it’s time to start your ascent. After all, there are more fish to see, or you’re not quite finished photographing the wreck you’ve been dreaming of diving for years.

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    After A Recreational Dive Accident: Legal Factors To Consider  
Scuba diving is all about fun and relaxation, adventure, and getting closer to the natural world, isn’t it? So why worry about your legal rights? Unfortunately, many divers are injured in scuba-related accidents each year.

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    Diver Life: Dive Boats Aid Safe Travel  
Whether time for your first open water dive is approaching or if you simply don’t have much experience around boats, you’ll soon come to appreciate their ability to take you out to dive sites and return you to dry land after the adventure has come to an end.

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    Defining And Understanding Underwater Visibility  
Often, the difference between a great dive and one that felt almost like a complete waste of time is a matter of something as mundane as a measurement.  When visibility is great, even the most boring site seems somehow magical; when visibility is poor, even the best reef or wreck seems dull.

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    Log 299: Devil's Grotto  
My third trip to Grand Cayman and my forth dive at Devil's Grotto; one of my favorite sites; explored a series of caves and captured lionfish in an

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    Champagne Reef in Dominica: Bubbles Galore  
Just about five minutes after making our shore entry into the warm, clear water, Vince and I spotted the turtles – two hawksbills, just chilling i

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    Log 252: Rudy's Rock  
Fantastic dive; saw lots of marine life; was able to follow adorable but curious turtle and came across a large grouper.

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Scuba Diving Reviews

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Coco View Resort

Owned by divers, and that

Owned by divers, and that made a difference!

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Amy Slate's Amoray Dive Resort

Amore dive resort has clean

Amore dive resort has clean rooms.

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Rainbow Reef Dive Center

Took an impromptu dive trip

Took an impromptu dive trip with Rainbow Reef divers while on business in FL.

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Rainbow Reef Dive Center

Rainbow Reef , Key Largo

RAINBOW REEF DIVE CENTER, HAS AMAZING STAFF AND GREAT EQUIPMENT....

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Belize Aggressor III

Air-conditioned cabins,

Air-conditioned cabins, fantastic food, and exceptional service are just the beginning.

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