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HAIGH QUARRY OPENING FOR THE 2012 SEASON IN jANUARY?
Capt. Darrick Lorenzen
1/7/2012
No, the season at Haigh Quarry is not opening this weekend! It will open for the 2012 season on Saturday April 7th, but because of our unusually warm weather Tina has decided to give Midwest divers a chance to scratch th...

SCUBA DIVERS LEFT BEHIND IN FLORIDA
Capt. Darrick Lorenzen
10/6/2011
The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was investigating RJ Diving Ventures of Miami Florida. The investigation was initiated because the dive operator left behind two tourists while they were scuba diving.   D...

10 WORST MISTAKES MADE BY RECREATIONAL DIVERS
Capt. Darrick Lorenzen
9/30/2011
1.      Don’t make safety decisions based on financial considerations! Many fatalities and injuries occur because people want diving, dive training or dive travel to be cheap, easy and fast. Always use the proper equipme...

MSD FORUMS - FOREIGN TRAVEL
TOPIC: Belize - Turneffe Island Lodge
Wiz77

Joined on
1/28/2006

This place is heaven.  My wife and I were there in March 2004. Turneffe Island Lodge is a private Island about 30 miles off the coast of Belize.  It is first class all the way.  It only can handle about 30-40 guests on the island each week.  They have private cabanas, which you stay in and all meals are served in the dining room.  The meals are served family style and they are great.  Everyone staying on the island eats together and you get to hear all types of stories from the fisherman staying on the island as well as the divers stories. 

 

All your dives are within a few minutes of the island except for the day trip to the blue hole.  The staff and crew are wonderful.  We never saw another dive operation around due to the distance from the mainland.  We dove the Elbow every morning.  This is a wall drift dive, which was amazing.  One morning we had a pod of dolphins swim up and take a peek at us.

 

This is definitely a place we are planning to go back to.