Dive cruise suggestions?

[sharkdivingmum]

My Husband and I are looking to take a second honeymoon. We are looking at dive cruises and we were wondering if anyone had any suggestions?

[MetallicaMom]

I don't have any suggestions but I am excited for you!  Do you want to do a liveaboard or do a regular Cruise and include dives.  If you take a big ship with thousands of people, I would do the diving on my own.  Do the research and find a good local diveshop.  Good luck and have fun!!

[sharkdivingmum]

Thank-you so much! We are looking at live aboards. NON STOP DIVING WOOO HOOO now that is my idea of a great romantic get away...lol

[christinaliu]

We did a liveaboard on the Cayman Aggressor IV.  It was an amazing week!  In fact, we had a couple that was celebrating their honeymoon by diving for a week on the Cayman Aggressor when we were on board!  :-) 

We loved it--and nonstop diving was definitely the way to go!  WE did up to 5 dives a day--and you only rig your tank up to your BC/Regulator one time at the beginning of the dive.  Then you just keep it rigged up in its space behind your seat--they just fill the tanks before each dive. 

We've been wanting to go on another liveaboard but will wait 'till our girls are a little older, and maybe do one of the special Aggressor Family cruises (they had one that was for Turks/Caicos).

[aqua_mom]

Not sure how far you are interested in traveling but when I dove in Thailand (Similan Islands) our boat accepted babies. In fact, on one of our trips, a couple had their 1 year old son with them. They took turns diving but had a blast. The Viking of the Orient is not in service anymore (boohoo!) but the dive shop I used has info on several other boats. Here's their website - they are wonderful:

http://www.scandinavian-divers.com/

Also, I was in Grand Cayman last December with my DH and daughter who was 9 months at the time as well as with a group of my diver friends. My DH doesn't dive but we had a blast doing lots of easy shore diving taking our surface intervals at the outside bar/restaurant at the entrance of the dive sites. There is also and excellent dive shop named Ocean Frontiers if you want to dive the East Side.

Belize

I was on Peter Hughes' Wind Dancer which was destroyed the year after my trip there but the diving was fabulous.

Turks and Caicos

Another Peter Hughes boat, nice diving but too many Sea Wasps on night dives.

Coco Island

Great diving but the Aggressor boat Okeanos is old and not in as good of shape as I was accustomed to with the Peter Hughes boat. Lots of current and water a bit colder than Carribean or Thailand but awesome hammerhead sharks, silky sharks, galapagos sharks, I could go on....

Have fun! I'm envious ;)

[christinaliu]

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too many Sea Wasps on night dives.

Oh, I remember one night dive on the Cayman Aggressor there were TONS of Sea Wasps!  They had plenty of spray bottles of vinegar waiting for us when we got back on the boat after our dive! 

[mna_823]

  Congrats!  I'm so jealous.  I don't have any suggestions but let us know what you decide and how it goes.

[txpenelope]

I would love to dive Cocos Island since you can only dive as a live aboard.