Since 1996 I have written trip reports about all travel related to scuba diving and marine life photography. Each trip report tries to provide the good, the bad, and the ugly so one can make an intelligent decision about whether following in my footsteps would be good for them. Keep in mind that each of us has different needs and one person's heaven can be another person's hell. In all cases, before I select a destination, I research it as well as I can. In general, I look for diving that is pristine which means in most cases that the location is difficult to get to for those of us in the USA. If a location were easy to get to, many people would frequent it and the diving would become less pristine over time.