Scuba diving in Venezuela Updated with pics
 

Has anyone done ant diving at las rocas, Margarita island or carcass? I just got certified for open water diving and I leave in 7 days to venezuela for 2 weeks. Anybody know good sites to hit?

screw you Scott:razz:j/k......cant help with your question ,congrats on your certification... sounds like a pretty sweet first dive.... very envious(of both the diving and your trip)

Ok, sorry, I have to intervene. "Carcass" is a dead thing, "Caracas" is a city in Venezuela.

No idea where to dive. My family lived in Caracas before my brothers started approaching the age of conscription so they moved to Canada. Then I was born. They tell me living somewhere warm is overrated. I can only take their word for it. NO I'M NOT BITTER.

Have a good trip though!

Here is the place to ask:

Scuba Boards

Congratulations on your certification! I cannot wait to get underwater again! I will be swimming with these guys in a about 4 weeks:

Raggies

Thats just not very nice :lol: Tell Kevin to get his permits for both me and him and i will mail some goodies back :razz: Not quite the first dive my first 4 were in lake chaparral to get my ticket, and let me tell you warm water diving is the place for me.

Tony, yes that sure is a dead thing.... ooops spell check for the win :lol:

Hey when did you finish your certification? last thurs? if so did you have bill has your instructor? that would have been funny if you and I were in the same course. Just waiting for my dive card to come in the mail too :biggrin:

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Hey congrats on your certification. Being spoiled living on the left/wet coast I have done a number of lake dives, trust me, lake dives are boring, unless it's a wreck dive. In my opinion you will probably forget your lake dives after you dive in the big salt. If you ever get out to the coast try and get in touch with some of us divers on Canreef and maybe we can line up a group day/night dive. I love night dives. Very envious of the dive trip you have planned.
Good luck.
Keith.

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Well im back sadly. It was the best vacation I have ever had!! I wold recommend it to anyone that is looking for a nice relaxing cheap vacation. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the dives/snorkel's (it was really hard to pick out of the several hundred that I have)

Me with a brain for size comparison.
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Parrot fish about 16"
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Underwater smoke ring
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School of tangs
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Some more tangs
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A couple 4' Barracuda that were hunting us....
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A couple more

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I had to put this one in. This is the Air traffic control tower on the island of Los Rocas

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Great pics, thanks for sharing! What is the story behind that massive pile of conch shells?

That's awesome !! Sooo jealous. :)

What are the bags of at the control tower? Garbage?

Thanks for sharing I love these kinds of posts!

And I'm glad you didn't land a few feet to your left here:

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Its a protected marine park, there are big conches everywhere you go in the water. so when they die and wash up on the shore they put them in piles on the islands. There is like 20 islands, some that you go on some you cant, and its illegal to take them so they keep piling up. In the town square there is a christmas tree made out of them with a huge star fish at the top.

Ya me too.... ouch!

Its an underwater statue of mother Mary at about 60'. all the locals that dive and take you under say a prayer there before the continue on the dive.

not sure never got that close to them. but more than likely it is as they only get the garbage picked up once a week

Great pics! Thanks for showing them. 3 more months and I'm off to the Caribbean myself. Can't wait!

How do you get a video on here?

hey...didnt know you were going......Carrie and I were in Venezuela just over 4 years ago....stayed on Margarita Island....loved it....thinking about going back in January....thanks for the pics....looks great

Looks like some great diving, I'm jealous. Thank goodness I will be in Mexico in another 2 weeks. :mrgreen: I just talked to my dive buddy in Puerto Vallarta the other day and at one of my favorite area sites the visability was 70 feet and the water temp was 88F but I imagine it should be cooled down to about 83-84F by the time I get there.:wink:
Thanks for sharing the pix.

Great pic.'s thanks for sharing.

Very Nice! :thumb:

Great pictures what kind of camera did you use?

I used a Canon D10 for the snorkel pics, and the dive master that we were with had a Pentax 12.1 mega pixel that he took all the dive pics with.