Puerto Rico
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Will be in Puerto Rico, mid January, on business. Will get a couple of
days diving. Need to know best places to dive and reliable dive shop or
operator.
Divetele
Nina Hunt
off the hotel that is a junky location, but she knows where every
seahorse and octopus is. Shallow water-quick dive. I liked it(twice)
La Paguera Divers at southwest corner of the island is PAdi 5 star shop,
but my trip to their "great wall" was only so-so.
I think the best diving is off the islands to the east, but I haven't
been there yet.
Hugh A. Huntzinger (CCL)
> ...Raddison Normandie in San Juan has an interesting "harbor dive" \
> off the hotel that is a junky location, but she knows where every
> seahorse and octopus is. Shallow water-quick dive. I liked it(twice)
I disliked it (once), although apparently with a different DM. Let's not
even talk about how much that 1-tank shore dive cost (ouch!).
It was a shallow, murky, trash-filled lagoon. Yeah, we found one seahorse.
Outside the lagoon, the viz doubled to maybe 30ft or so and it looked
like a good dive starting point (finally), but the DM pretty much was
at a loss as to where to go from there, so after lounging for awhile,
we came back in.
It was the next day that the newspaper's headlines were talking about
how toxic the pollution was in San Juan's harbor. IMHO, this dive site
should be nominated for the "Crappy Divesite" Web Page - I've been to
a few of the sites on that list and I would have preferred to have dived
them instead of here (such as Shark River Inlet, NJ).
If there's a next time for PR, I'd try the islands off the NE; the coast
to the W of Ponce is supposed to be pretty good, but they got hurricaned
this year, so...
-hh
TSeeley
dive...@aol.com wrote:
>Will be in Puerto Rico, mid January, on business. Will get a couple of
>days diving. Need to know best places to dive and reliable dive shop or
>operator.
>Divetele
Don't screw around in the San Juan area, or Fajardo either, for that
matter - I just got back ... rent a car, drive down to the southwest
of the island, and dive with Parguera Divers. Efra Fiqueroa treats
you like a brother, the wall is very pretty and very healthy, and you
do two dives for $65.00. They don't go out a 2nd time, so there is no
"hurry back to the boat, we have to go" crap.
And when we got back (7 divers on the boat) Efra bought the beer.
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Tom