Puerto Rico Great place for diving !

DIVING PUERTO RICO
THE NEXT BEST THING TO SLIPPING INTO AN AQUARIUM
by Madelyn Miller

Since diving in Puerto Rico is one of the Caribbean's best-kept
secrets, most of the sites remain untouched. Every dive trip is still
an adventure, every diver an explorer. And diving in Puerto Rico may be
the next best thing to slipping into an aquarium. Underwater visibility
can exceed 100 feet, and land and water temperatures hover around an
easy-to-take 78 degrees all year rounds. (I wish the pool at my health
club was this consistently warm)

During the last Ice Age, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands formed one
land mass. Today, the waters connecting these islands are uniformly
shallow, and the marine life is spectacular. Exquisite communities of
elaborate patch reefs and dazzling reef fish sit in clear turquoise
waters rarely deeper than 760 feet. Reached by boat, these sites
challenge both novice and experienced divers. Dive conditions are
consistently favorable, underwater photography is exceptionally good,
and night dives are memorable.

Scuba divers see very special things in Puerto Rico. Pristine reefs,
spectacular walls, intriguing caverns, and mangrove-topped cays define
the tropical waters that surround Puerto Rico. They form the backdrop
for dives that are as dazzling as any found in the Caribbean and as
diverse as the surrounding marine life. Multitudes of fish coexist with
endangered manatees and humpback whales. Corals abound, including
species that are mere memories on other islands. Dive options are as
varied as the sites themselves. Explore reefs that lie within a splash
of your hotel room, or ones that fringe remote islets far from shore.
start your scuba experience with an easy half-day resort course, or
enjoy an advanced dive 100 feet below the surface. Puerto Rico offers
beach dives, shallow dives, boat dives, wall and ledge dives, night
dives, cave and wreck dives, and they are all memorable. Operators are
NAUI or PADI affiliated, fully qualified professionals using Coast
Guard certified boats; they are also enthusiastic veterans of their
dive region.

Where to stay? The exquisite Palmas del Mar Resort is home to the only
on-site dive operation in Puerto Rico. Noted for more than 3,000
coconut palm trees swaying over the property, when you check in at the
open-air lobby, you'll be greeted by Roberto, a multicolored parrot and
the soft sounds of the lobby's mini-waterfall.

The resort gives new meaning to the phrase "a room with a view". From
the balcony of a beach-front villa, the Caribbean, mysterious and
exotic, is like a chameleon: frequently changing colors from deep blue
to jade green. The sky over Palmas del mar is surprisingly predictable,
soft blue and usually dotted with fluffy white clouds. Even after you
awaken each morning, you'll think you're still dreaming. Because you'll
have a breathtaking view of the Caribbean sea or mountains or beautiful
man-made lakes and waterfalls.

The resort actually looks like the hillside coastal towns of the
Mediterranean. Pastel stucco building with red tile roofs terrace down
the sides of hills to the sea. Walkways twist and wind their way
through lush canopies of trees into sunlit plazas framed by riots of
flowers.

Most dive sites are located between five and 20 minutes from the docks
at Palmas del Mar and include views of multicolored coral, reef walls,
small caves, overhangs, swim-throughs and pinnacles hosting a variety
of tropical fish.

If you get a chance, try diving off the western coast of Vieques, a
small offshore island that marks the easternmost boundary of Puerto
Rico. Here the waters are relatively shallow and studded with
impressive elkhorn coral. Conch and large barrel sponges are also
abundant, and grouper, angelfish, morays and other fish are common
sights. Green Beach, shaded by towering palm trees, has an offshore
reef in 10 to 30 feet of water that features sloping valleys and huge
coral heads. Much of Vieques remains unexplored, with many outstanding
dive sites still waiting to be discovered.

In between dives, you can wade through Old San Juan, one of the
best-preserved historic districts in the New World, explore the Camuy
Caves, the biggest river cave system this this of Europe, visit a
century-old coffee estate , or try your luck in an opulent casino. From
rain forests to dry forests, pineapple fields to golf courses,
folkloric festivals to classical jazz and salsa concerts, kayaking to
hiking--it's all right there in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is also the Caribbean's most accessible island. It offers
the flavor of a different world, with the comforts of our own.

PALMAS DEL MAR RESORT, BOX2020 HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO. 800-PALMAS-3.



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if you see this photo , is possible to don't dive here ?? , and don't
eat nice ?? can't be , this is a tropical paradise

Culebras !

http://www.mamacitaspr.com/

Huricane season??

blackbcdiver wrote:
> if you see this photo , is possible to don't dive here ?? , and don't
> eat nice ?? can't be , this is a tropical paradise
>
> Culebras !

It's Culebra! The island of Culebra has no "s" in it.

You could see that even in the map you used for your first spam:
> http://www.travelandsports.com/

As for your NEW spam:

> http://www.mamacitaspr.com/

LOL!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!

You must be the one who made up that SPAM ad! It misspelled
"Caribbean" as "Carribean" too, just like you did in your posts!

Jer was right on the mark about you.

-- Bob.

Dan Bracuk wrote:
> "Reef Fish" <Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com> pounded away at his
> keyboard resulting in:
> :Not many people who dived much in the Caribbean would misspell
> :Caribbean,
>
> How do you spell that word anyway? I always have trouble with it.

Yeah, Canucks can't spell -- but that's not the issue with Baaad
Blackass Cretin.

He was SPAMMING for Culebra and the Caribbean, and he misspelled
BOTH of those words which were the center-stage of his SPAM.

Furthermore, even Canucks know that the Atlantic is an OCEAN, don't
they?
And not the Atlantic Sea.

If you are to spam for all the moose in Toronto, it would be in bad
form, let alone lack of credibility, for you to say "Come to Tronto.
We have the biggest and best mouse you can eat for Tanksgiving."

-- Bob.

blackbcdiver wrote:
> I go to los tubos in Manati every week-end , is a nice clear beach with
> deep like a 25 to 30 clear water. And las week i was in Mar Chiquita
> with deep like 25 to 65 .
>
> Both are in the north part of puerto rico in the midle cost.

But Dan's question to you was: where have you dived that was *not* in
PR?

According to your blog, you were still in training, but due to receive
your scuba certificationt this week, and you have not gone scuba diving
anywhere other than Puerto Rico. So as far as we're concerned, you
have nothing else to compare your diving to, so your opinion doesn't
have much strength.


My request to you would be for you to go do a shore dive from Hotel
Normandy this next weekend. Hotel Normandy is on the north coast, east
of San Juan. Afterwords, tell us how much you liked that dive and how
it compared to your dives at Los Tubos and Mar Chiquita.


-hh

Well , Normandy Hotel is not the location , the area is called "El
Escambron" , mark that bob for you dictionary ! . The beach in "El
Escambron" is a real dangerous diving area. Is located inside the
"Parque del Milenio" (for bob too) .

The Cost Guard in that area have a lot of warninig for Surfers and
Diver. Diving is a high risk sport .

The blog show my adventure in scuba training and i don't pretend to
make scuba lessons. Just an adventure that still growing. But is
difficult for you "people" , remember went you start in scuba?.

If this is true , i think that you lose something...

And for bob ! , if you want to insult , go for it , i send you more
piñas coladas , jeje you only find the meaning if came to Puerto Rico
, and that never gonna happend ! , take care my Liiiittttleeee
Frienddddd....

hey Reef Fish ? do you try to have a NewsGroup Certification ? ,
because all the messeges that i found about you say .....

"Reef fish is a idot"

well i found that in a post from 1998 , that mean ..

Reef Fish NGC-I (NewsGroup Certified Idot) since 1998 ?

"if you don't have a nice word to say , go dive "

"blackbcdiver" <BlackBCdiver@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well , Normandy Hotel is not the location...

I apologize: I meant torefer to the Normandie Hotel's beach, which is
where Carribe Aquatic Adventures does their guided shore dives from. It
is located a few miles to the east of San Juan on the north coast.



> The blog show my adventure in scuba training...

A suggestion: if you want people to be able to find your blog to read
it, you have to list its address more than once. It is generally
acceptable to include one URL in your signature at the end of a posting,
with the major caveat being that you're posting real content and not
merely contriving an excuse to display your URL (that becomes SPAM).
Don't think that the really experienced readers can't tell the
difference.


> Just an adventure that still growing. But is difficult
> for you "people" , remember went you start in scuba?.

Yes, I remember over-exuberance. Fortunately, some people were good
enough to offer advice from which I learned and gained perspective.


> If this is true , i think that you lose something...

Not at all: what I hadn't revealed is that I have dived in PR.

This is why I suggested that you go do the shore dive at the Normandie
Hotel's beach: this way, we have a dive in common from which we can
more directly compare what we think is a "good", "so-so", or "bad" dive.

After you perform that local-for-you dive, let me know what you thought
of it, and I'll do the same.



-hh

PS: Congratulations on so quickly figuring who the coquí are to ignore.

thank for the advice...

TX pal !