We all have preconceived ideas of certain people, places or things. As scuba divers we can remember before we were certified, the idea of drifting effortlessly in the water surrounded by fish and reefs. We dreamed of water that was an impossible blue and land with palm trees right down to the sand. Once we...
It was February in Utah once again and that can mean only one thing, time to get away to warmer waters. This year we were headed once again to the shark and wreck infested waters of the Bahamas.We had been to New Providence Island and Nassau two years ago. (see 'Take Your Mama to the...
Margie Christiansen is one of our Assistant Instructors. She just returned from our California trip the first week of August. This is what she had to say:I just got off a live-aboard and it was great. The boat was the Horizon based out of San Diego. I was told there were 32 divers on board...
Another winter, another dive trip. This year we had planned to hit Grand Cayman in February but after Hurricane Ivan hit last fall, we decided to hit another location. Belize was on my list so we put together a group to head there for the beginning of April. After the success of beachfront rooms with...
Last February, we took a group to New Providence Island in the Bahamas. This island is home to the town of Nassau and is commonly referred by that name. Nassau is famous as a cruise destination and also well known for wreck and shark diving. In a nutshell, that is what we wanted to see,...
Tired of the same old bourgeoisie diving in capitalist countries throughout the Caribbean? Throw off the shackles of oppressive Divemasters and find freedom in the socialist divers paradise of Cuba. I was able to get in touch with my red side on a live aboard trip to visit our communist brothers to the south.We flew...
I've asked Doug Lowe, one of our instructors at Dive Utah to give us a report from the latest Psalty trip. (I think he liked it!) ~ DaveWhat do you get when you combine perfect weather, a great group of divers, a boat with all of the comforts of home and Catalina Island? If you...
We had a fun April this year. Two weeks after getting back from Belize we headed south again to dive Cozumel. We left the kids home so it actually meant that Tee was going to get to dive. We had a great group of 19 people to stay at the Hotel Cozumel (formerly Brisas, Costa...
Earlier this summer I had the chance to head south of the border and visit Cozumel Mexico. If you ever been diving out of the US, then chances are you've done Cozumel. Cozumel is a small island located off the tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, just a little south of the popular resort town of...