Cozumel Trip

[ivan's mermaid]

Hello VDH Friends, we just wanted to let you know that we've had a great time at
Scuba Club Cozumel.
Great diving, food and especially friends. We'll be home today!

[Bryan]

Hope you have a safe trip home. Oh and the weather in Cincinnati is a little different than you have been accustomed to lately.

[8dust]

Where'd your pictures go??? looks like the links are broke.

[ivan's mermaid]

I'm sorry let's try this again....

[1969ivan1]

Yes, the trip to Coz was a real blast with some of the best dressed 1958 Aqua Lung Divers around(see pics above). I think I managed 24 dives starting on the 4th and ending early morning on the 10th. We saw lots of fantastic sea life, but the favorite of everone was the Splendid double breasted Mexican staring toad fish of southern Sri Lanka, also know as the Splendid Toad Fish, but I like my name better is all. The resort was very diver friendly and I even got up one morning at 0530 hours to do a pre breakfast dive with my best dive buddy Allan Harness King Klauda! The boat operators could care less if you dived vintage. I dived every single dive, save for 3, with my trusty FX Blue 50 Fathom using a banjo from VDH! My FX 50 Fathom with VDH seat worked perfectly all the way to 141 feet at the Devil's Throat on the dive resorts Al80 3000 PSI tanks! I think that we were a big hit at the resort with our collage of Gray, Yellow, and Black hoses! Allan was a great ambassador for NAVED and the Vintage community as a whole even getting some of the other divers at the resort to try 2 hose diving. The food at the resort was "phenomenal!" I am sure once Allan and Herman get settled back at home they will share some of the great underwter pics that they took. We got a little preview and they captured some great ones of the fishes as well as the divers. I hope so very much that they will allow me to use some of them on my site in fact.

All in all I think Barb and I both will return to Scuba Club Cozumel for some more diving adventures soon.

[ivan's mermaid]

I'm sorry but, let's see if I can get these sized up right.







For what ever reason I can't get that third one to size up correctly. Needless to say we had a great time.

[simonbeans]

For them:

[Bryan]

Check out Barb diving that SP109!

[ivan's mermaid]

Check out Barb diving that SP109!

That's right, Rob scored that for me in one of his Craigslist buys and Luis got it in great operating shape for me. He did a real nice rebuild and it is an awesome breather.

We did have a great time.

[SeaHuntJerry]

Hi,
I was glad to sea Esther Williams diving in Cozumel.
KC was in Florida diving the springs.
Jl

[Drado]

Allan, as an aside, what set-up did you use for those great photos?

[Herman]

Allan, as an aside, what set-up did you use for those great photos?

A big honkin camera.

[simonbeans]

Canon T1i, Tokina 10-17, Dual Ikelite DS125s, Ikelite housing. All purchased from the best photo man available, David Haas (http://www.haasimages.com). Whenever he has any used gear, buy it as fast as you can. Besides the best like-new quality, you get service second to NONE. And, he runs dive trips for photographers with assistance on how to take some really great images. He has always been my master and I hold with great esteem to be called his "grasshopper".

[Herman]

And a couple more:

[Aileron]

Gorgeous shots! I absolutely love diving Coz, and go there every year without fail. You can't beat top to bottom viz, great food and friendly people. It's also the most affordable vacation anyone can take.

You guys look great in your yellow shirts!

Lisa