2017 April 27 - Saipan / Obyan Beach
(Day 3, dive 1)

There are two ways to dive Obyan - either from the shore or from a boat.
If there’s a choice, I’ll take the boat.

This was the first dive of the second day with Cmlc Artha (3rd day of  diving on Saipan tho). We got ourselves loaded up and headed south. This  time not as far as Tinian but we ( Read more... )

2017 April 26 - Saipan / dimple

Third dive of the day off Saipan's west coast. Originally planned to do  four but three was a good idea. I was still worn out from the steps of  the grotto! Actually, I'll just say Nelson, the DM, was tired and I was  making him work too hard.
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Dimple is a really nice and easy site. There's a little bit of current ( Read more... )

Day 2. Dive 2. Tinian Grotto (Tinian).

Tinian Grotto was the second dive of the day. It's also one of the  popular sites I had read about and honestly, I kind of enjoyed parts of  it more than the Saipan Grotto. Maybe because it didn't require all  those steps to climb up and down. It's smaller though, and yet I found  the openings to be really ( Read more... )

When you head to the boat for your dives, you walk down a path to a  little sandy beach. There's a dock there and some stairs to access it.
Be prepared to get wet! When the water is up, it'll get your shorts and  shirt wet. Some people like to suit up at the shop but if you're not one  of them then make sure you've got your things in dry bag and ( Read more... )

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Day 2! Dive 1 Fleming Wall (Tinian)

Dove with Cmlc Artha for my second day of diving in Saipan. I’d dive  with them for the rest of the week too. I ended up doing three dives on  this day, two were down south at Tinian Island. I got to hang out with  Nelson on this first day of diving with CMLC.

Fleming Wall was one of the dive sites I ( Read more... )

I found some posts I made for a TripReport on ScubaBoard. I never made any posts in here as far as I know so I wanted to copy/paste them in my own blog. These are from a 2017 April trip after a gig in Tokyo. My friend Brad had moved to the Marianas for work so I took the opportunity to visit and dive. (These are copy/pasted directly)

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Yup. I went back to Mexico.
But this was a few weeks ago. In November. For Thanksgiving.
And it was awesome.

Did a lot of diving. Here's one of many videos posted to my Vimeo page.

OK!

So for day 2 and 3 I went out with the resort team and boat. (Sailing Club Divers)
Day 2 was with my travel buddy Richard. Day 3 I went solo.
Each day we were accompanied by DiveMaster Vu.
Day 2: octopus rock & tri minh treat's
Day 3: south bay & coral garden(Some of this is kind of a re-hashing of my first post ( Read more... )

(part 1 here. copy/pasted from scubaboard thread).


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So I'm learning that the resort I'm staying at outside of Nha Trang is pretty damn remote. Or it might not be. But I do know that getting out of the resort and into town at odd hours will set you back $150 - each way ( Read more... )