Honeymoon or Dive Vacation

Michael Wicks · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 68–74

Products mentioned: Canon G9, Canon Rebel xTi, Ikelite DS125 strobes, Ikelite housing

The words were still hanging over my head as I attempted to fall asleep. “This isn’t a dive vacation! “ the words that my Amina, Amina, had just said to me. We were planning our honeymoon, and we wanted to go to a beach place where neither of us had gone to, and, Cozumel, the home of the drift dive and waters so clear that you’d swear you were topside not below the depths would be that place. I knew diving on our honeymoon would be a touchy subject as my now wife was not a diver. She is, however, an avid snorkeler and on most occasions it would be me who would drag her out of the water at the end of the day. But how could I not dive in Cozumel? 11 Days and 10 nights in a diver’s paradise. So when asked how many dives I thought I was going to log on our honeymoon, four was a reasonable and rational number that came to mind. This statement elicited said declaration: “This isn’t a dive vaca…