Try Diving Dry with Rec Diving September 7 & 8

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Imagine staying warm and toasty on a dive. You don’t shiver and you don’t have to come up early because you are just too darn cold! Diving in a drysuit seals you off from the cold water and that keeps you warm. It really is amazing! Each year, Rec Diving teams up with the DUI Drysuit team to gear up our divers for a dry suit test dive. If you’ve never tried it, now is your ideal chance.

Join us September 7 & 8 at Gilboa Quarry for the annual DUI Demo Tour.  Enjoy some fun diving and try something new!   Stop by Rec Diving to get your tickets for the event and be sure to let us know you’re coming!  It’s a great chance to meet other divers from Rec Diving and we look forward to seeing you at the Rec Diving staging area.  We’ll have plenty of dive buddies and we are all looking to log some fun dives and share our knowledge of diving dry.  So what are you waiting for?  Join the fun!

Click here to request more information.  Check out the Demo Tour event site here.DUIdays1

Rec Diving Recommends: Liveaboard Diving

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For one week you live like a millionaire aboard a custom dive yacht.  For seven blissful days you dive, eat and sleep.  What more is there, right?

There is simply no better way to get as much amazing and varied diving packed into one week.  It’s no wonder so many divers love to liveaboard dive.

And right now you can save big on some of the best liveaboard dive boats out there.  Click here to find out more.

Enjoy liveaboard diving in the following Exotic destinations:

  • Kona, Hawaii
  • Galapagos Islands
  • Cocos Island
  • Palau
  • Maldives
  • Socorro
  • Guadalupe
  • Alor Islands
  • Fiji
  • Komodo National Park
  • Indonesia
  • Thailand

Enjoy liveaboard on the following Caribbean destinations:

  • Belize
  • Turks & Caicos
  • Cayman Islands
  • Bahamas
  • Dominican Republic

How to Add Adventure to your Diving Itinerary

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As a general rule, at Rec Diving we select a travel destination for the good diving, but no matter what amazing or exotic location we journey to, we always recommend exploring the culture, history and wildlife topside as well.

Divers are clearly adventurous at heart and curious in nature. We spend hours, sometimes days, getting to some of the most remote destinations for diving, so why not enjoy the wonders above the water line too?

We recommend adventures designed to immerse you in the culture of a place or uncover the character of a destination. As with all of our diving itineraries, we always recommend the best local guides available. In our experience, the best guides can make the difference between a good trip and an outstanding one!

Here are just a few ways we’ve personally helped divers enjoy the best of both worlds, above and below the water:

  • Dive the Galapagos Islands and add on Macchu Piccu with a Local Guide
  • Dive Costa Rica and add on a hike through a Cloud Forest Reserve and a visit to an Active Volcano
  • Dive Thailand and add on an interactive stay at an Elephant Nature Preserve
  • Dive Belize and add on a visit to Ancient Mayan Ruins and a Jungle Spa Retreat
  • Cage Dive with Great Whites in South Africa and add on a customized Safari  (See amazing Trip Video below)Contact us when you are ready to take your next trip to get the best underwater experience and perhaps add some topside adventure too!

Video of the Week: Cocos Shark Rodeo

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Cocos Island, some 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, is among the best dive destinations to get up close and personal with sharks.  Here the night dive is a MUST!  Countless sharks blanket the reef in packs looking for small fish hiding in the coral.  It is always a diving highlight on the Rec Diving itinerary.  Contact us  when you are ready to experience this place where time forgot.

Why use a Dive Travel Specialist?

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We are asked all the time why it makes sense to use a dive travel specialist to book a dive trip.

One of our recent dive travel clients summed it up perfectly. He told us he had googled “diving vacation in the Caribbean” and came up with 17 million results! Yep, he needed a little help narrowing down his dive vacation options.

That’s what dive travel specialists do. Based on your interests, likes, needs, skills and budget, we come up with the best options for your adventure. It doesn’t cost you more, as the destination pays our commission, NEVER the customer.  Our goal for you is an enjoyable, carefree vacation based on your desires. Because we have been diving in all of the locations that we offer, we can give you impartial advice on the best place to dive on your vacation. And best of all, we specialize in some of the world’s most exciting dive destinations!

So as you prepare for your next diving adventure, save yourself some precious hours and try the Rec Diving team’s adventure travel service. We can hook you up with the perfect group dive trip or individual adventure customized just for you.  We are all divers who LOVE to make the trip planning process super fun!  In fact, we like to say we strive to make the process almost as much fun as the trip itself (well, at least WAY more fun than sifting through 17 million web search results!)

Below we share with you just a few of the reasons why we dive.  There is so much beauty underwater and we love to help you connect with it and enjoy it as much as we do.  We hope to dive with you soon, or help you create a memorable dive vacation!

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What is Manta Night?

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Diver’s on the Kona Aggressor II enjoy their dinner topside on ‘Manta night’.  This way you can watch as the excitement builds. Imagine this: the sun has now set, replaced by a light blue glow of snorkel and dive lights, the show is starting. There is an estimated 60 resident Manta Rays living in Kona and on a good night there can be 20+ Mantas at the ‘camp fire’. Mantas are usually sighted all over the surface scooping up mouthfuls of plankton.

Diver’s nestle themselves between lava rocks, laying as low as possible giving the graceful giants room to make their acrobatic somersaults as they funnel in plankton. Watching the Manta Rays as they dance in the spot light is absolutely phenomenal and a dive that you will cherish for the rest of your life. It’s a wonderful way to spend the evening and enjoy Kona’s night life at its best.  It is also one of Rec Diving’s favorite dives off the Kona coast.

Limited space is still available if you want to join Rec Diving aboard the Kona Aggressor II December 28th through January 4th.  Ring in the New Year with us (and the mantas!).  It is also prime time to run into pods of dolphin and whales!  Click here for more trip info