Now that you're certified...for a fun diving trip, plus a beach full of california bunnies, check this out...:

Catalina Island Scuba Diving and Snorkeling from Catalina Divers Supply on Catalina Island in Avalon CA

Paul,

The waters around Catalina are COLD. Not as bad as Tenkiller, but not far from it.

Take his buns down to Cozemel and let him see what 200 foot vis and warm water is like. Then he will be spoiled for life!

Joe I wanna f
dive warm water. We need to get rusty to put together a ppot dive trip.

Learn how to type first! :)

Cozy is not that far from you and the diving there is excellent. Also its "American friendly" so to speak.

http://www.cancuncd.com/m-dive-coral...el-dive-11.jpg

Vis is pretty good and notice that they are wearing only a shorty and BC, no real suit to stay warm. This is easily 100-150 foot vis right here.
http://www.skyrush.com/scuba/scuba1.jpg

Lots of fishes around

http://www.cozumelbedandbreakfast.ne...%20wdiverg.jpg

http://aquaviews.net/wp-content/uplo...uba-Diving.jpg


Beaches aint too bad either
http://jacquiesteam.files.wordpress....868-776906.jpg

Joe, where is that?

It ain't a lake in Oklahoma for sure!

All depends on your perspective...this COLD thing. Try diving in Newport, OR with 20' visibilty being a good day, then go to Catalina...my buddy Jim & I thought we'd discovered paradise. I do confess to wearing my Oregon 1/4" "farmer John" wetsuit...:rolleyes:

Tom,

Cozemel, an island off the coast of Mexico in the area of Cancun. Not that far from either of you guys.

Yeah...but I dunno if I'd suggest a Mexican trip to anybody these days...:(

Fly OVER the border and go to well established places. The Mexico tourist people are doing everything that they can to keep it safe.

Besides, you gotta die sometime! :)

Joe A

Paul.... I would have killed for 20ft vis..... I swear my last dive was down to about 5....

20' was a good day...but then the spearfishing was great...lots of rockfish & ling cod. Cold? 50 degree water...wetsuilt a must.