Two Beers and a Pretzel

At my going away happy hour I talked with a guy from work who has had many past lives. Big 5 accounting consultant, SCUBA instructor in the Caribbean for a year on a live-aboard, and finally, managing the help desk for the GAP. We were talking about SCUBA, and I got a ton of advice from him….

Apparently I want to go to Honduras because you can just walk off the beach to do your certification dive, as it gets deep quick, and there are patch reefs everywhere.

Upon doing a little research, I found a guy on Roatan who built his own DSV submarine (totally unlicensed and uninspected) that he uses to take tourists down to 2000 ft deep!!! Holy Cow… I wouldn’t build my own car – much less something that could instantly crush me to death if anything goes wrong.

So I’ve decided… I don’t want to ride in it that deep, but I absolutely have to talk to this guy…


From his recent website update, he’s in a skirmish with the local Mayor, and I guess he’s being physically blocked from taking the sub out to sea. That removes temptation!!

So it’s a week in Honduras (starting Nov 17th) to get my Scuba certification and see a few Mayan Pyramids. Then a bus thru Nicaragua spend 2 weeks in Costa Rica.